Civilian flights resume in Chechnya
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The first regularly scheduled civilian passenger flight since 1999 arrived at Chechnya's main airport Thursday, in what officials say is yet another sign that the war-wracked Russian region has returned to normal.
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Chechens elect a new president today, but few expect peace to follow from a Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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Attacks by Chechen separatists in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Russian republic, have left several people dead. Russian news agencies reported that a number of Chechen fighters had been killed along with several pro-Russian policemen.
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MOSCOW -- Two Chechen women suspected of blowing up Russian passenger jets last month were briefly detained by police before the flights but bribed at least one airline employee to get on the planes, media reports said yesterday.
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UZLOVAYA, Russia  - Russia on Thursday observed a  day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious  double air disaster, which some fear could have been a  terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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ABOVE SHAPIRI GHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan  authorities said they would begin moving on Monday remains of  104 victims from a crashed airliner off the snow-topped  mountain near Kabul where they have lain for 11 days.
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Iraqi Airways resumed international flights Saturday when a plane took off from neighboring Jordan, the airline&#39;s first such flight since UN sanctions were imposed on Saddam Hussein in 1990.
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Gulf Air said Wednesday it was resuming commercial flights to Lebanon, with the first flight scheduled for Saturday.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 17, 2004 - US officials got a wake-up call last month about the need to screen airline passengers for explosives when two Chechen women apparently carried bombs onto two Russian planes and blew them up.
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Seventeen Russian tourists who suffered the bus crash on the Moscow-Riga highway on December 31 returned to Russia, reported director of the organizing travel agency Andris Podgorny.
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MOSCOW - The discovery of traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously this week has confirmed a widely suspected terrorist connection and stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the crashes, which killed 90 people, were retaliation for Russia's protracted civil war in the troubled republic, which holds an election Sunday to replace its assassinated Kremlin-backed president...
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The two Chechen suicide bombers who brought down two Russian passenger jets at the same time Aug. 24 gained access through petty bribes at Moscow&#39;s airport, Russia&#39;s top prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Police and emergency workers recovered bodies and secured the flight recorders yesterday from the wreckage of two Russian airliners that crashed Tuesday night, while authorities said
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Kyrgyz and Russian special forces wrapped up joint anti-terrorism exercises in the poor Central Asian nation's volatile south Thursday, as Moscow seeks to regain influence in the strategic region marred by Islamic insurgency and political instability.
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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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Afghan authorities said they would begin moving on Monday remains of 104 victims from a crashed airliner off the snow-topped mountain near Kabul where they have lain for 11 days.
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Air traffic in eastern Norway resumed at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday after controllers stopped work on Monday, forcing the closure of airports in Oslo, Sandefjord, Kristiansand and Fagernes.