Spanish plane crew held in Chad
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Chad authorities detain seven Spanish crew members of a plane chartered to fly more than 100 children to France.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Spanish police arrested the suspected hijacker of a Mauritanian plane who was knocked over by a hard landing and overpowered by passengers on Thursday, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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Spanish police arrested the hijacker of an Air Mauritania plane that landed in Las Palmas airport, and the 71 passengers have been freed unharmed, Canary Islands police chief Jose Segura said.
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Authorities charged six French nationals with kidnapping after a failed attempt to fly 103 African children out of Chad that an aid group said were orphans from Darfur, officials said Tuesday.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania and flown to the Canary Islands, where security forces raided the plane and arrested a suspect, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.Comment
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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The Spanish authorities claim to have foiled a high-profile terrorist attack with the arrests of a group of mainly Algerian radical Muslims.
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Chadian rebels capture the town of Guereda on the country's eastern border with Sudan.
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Spanish police arrested four Moroccans on suspicion of belonging to an armed Islamic group, including one man believed linked to the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people, the Interior Ministry said on ...
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane hijacked on an internal flight has flown to the Spanish Canary Islands after stopping for fuel in the Western Sahara, Mauritanian officials said.
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About 150 American, Australian, Canadian and Spanish nationals gathered at Abidjan&#39;s sleek, modern airport. A Spanish air force plane.
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.
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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.
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Five people suspected of helping members of the Basque separatist group to cross borders are arrested.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were being flown to France on Friday to serve their terms there, a Chadian justice ministry official said.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - The authorities arrested six North Africans in Spain on Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to an international network that promotes jihad on the Internet and recruits fighters, the Interior Ministry announced. Spain's rural police force, Guarda Civil, said it detained five men and a woman in Burgos Province in northern Spain. Authorities searched six houses and a butcher's shop run by the men and confiscated documents and computer hard drives, the ministry said in its statement.