Greek hijack siege ends peacefully
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A Greek bus hostage siege has ended peacefully as all 23 passengers were freed and as police revealed the two armed Albanian hijackers had been bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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ATHENS  - Experience acquired by Greek police during the summer&#39;s Olympic Games proved critical in the successful outcome of the bus hijack crisis which ended with the hostages being released unharmed and the gunmen arrested.
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Greek papers are happy and relieved at the successful conclusion to the Athens Olympics, while the Chinese press looks forward to hosting the 2008 Games
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Two armed men who hijacked a busload of hostages at gunpoint in the outskirts of Athens and demanded â¬1m (Â£690,000) ransom surrendered last night.
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ATHENS, Greece Formal charges, and an appeal for calm. They&#39;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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LONDON - Police have cleared a Greek passenger plane travelling from Athens to New York after a bomb threat Sunday prompted the pilot to divert the aircraft to London.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Officials say three more people have been freed from a hijacked bus in Athens, Greece. Police are also lowering the number of passengers they think were initially on the bus.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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Greek police celebrate the capture of the country's most wanted man, Nikos Paleokostas.
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.
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Hijackers have released two more of the around 24 hostages they are holding after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb, bringing the total freed to 12.
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Two armed men who hijacked a bus in the Greek capital and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Thursday local time and released their six remaining hostages.
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Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan for more than three weeks are apparently unharmed after being released Tuesday.
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ATHENSâGreece said goodbye to the XXVIII Olympiad last night, staging an uproarious farewell pageant under the glow of a full moon, replete with security blimps and a swarm of police helicopters swirling overhead.
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A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say.
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Afghanistan&#39;s hardline Taliban movement freed the last of its 19 South Korean hostages late Thursday bringing an end to the six-week kidnapping drama.