Hijackers in Greece demand ransom, airplane to Russia
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Two armed men hijacked a bus carrying more than two dozen passengers early yesterday, threatening to blow it up with explosives unless they were taken to the airport and put on planes, police and government officials said.
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Russia said Friday &quot;terrorists&quot; were behind a passenger jet crash, as an Islamic group vowing support for Chechnya rebels claimed responsibility for that attack and the
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BRINDISI, Italy -- A Turkish hijacker seeking to communicate with Pope Benedict XVI seized an airliner flying from Albania to Istanbul yesterday and diverted it to Italy before surrendering.
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ATHENS, Greece Formal charges, and an appeal for calm. They're the latest developments in the arrests of two Albanian immigrants charged with staging an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage siege in Athens.
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Two foreign gunmen hijacked a Greek bus  carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday and demanded to go to  Athens airport to leave the country.
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Two armed hijackers are holding 26 people hostage on board a Greek bus after seizing it near the capital Athens. Police are surrounding the bus stopped between Marathon and the capital.
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A woman hostage gets off a hijacked bus as special police forces surround it in eastern Athens Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 26 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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A Greek police force faced what The Associated Press called its &quot;first test&quot; since undergoing intensive training for this past summer&#39;s Olympics when two armed men seized a bus full of passengers Wednesday in the country&#39;s fifth such hijacking since 1999.
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A Turkish airliner is reportedly hijacked in Greek airspace.
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ATHENS : Gunmen holding seven passengers hostage in a bus near Athens after releasing 16 in stages threatened to blow up the vehicle Thursday unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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Hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized control of a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday, and were forced by interceptor jets to land in Italy.
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A hostage aboard a public bus in Greece says hijackers promise to release everyone once they arrive at a nearby airport for a flight to Russia.
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Two armed hijackers seized a bus carrying 26 passengers on a highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency reports.
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Two international rights organizations appealed to President Vladimir Putin to order the release of eight relatives of a Chechen rebel leader, who were allegedly abducted last month by security forces.
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GERAKAS, Greece  - Two gunmen, thought to be Albanians, commandeered a bus with some 25 passengers on board in an Athens suburb, later releasing a total of 12 while reportedly demanding one million euros in ransom and a plane to be flown out of
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MOSCOW - Russian airlines will be required to document passengers more thoroughly following this week's twin plane crashes, a news agency reported Saturday, as the discovery of explosives stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    The Federal Security Service, or FSB, declared at least one of the crashes an act of terrorism Friday after investigators found traces of the high explosive hexogen in the wreckage of a Tu-154 jet that crashed in southern Russia...
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Two gunmen hijacked a bus with 25 passengers on board today, demanding $1 million dollars and a plane to fly them to Russia.