Eritrean deportees seize plane, give up in Khartoum
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A group of 78 Eritreans being deported home from Libya by air on Friday hijacked their plane and diverted it to Khartoum in Sudan where they surrendered, a senior United Nations official said.
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Residents in Bolivia's Santa Cruz province seize the country's busiest airport after troops withdraw.
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Sudanese police seized a large quantity of weapons and explosives Friday and detained one person during raids linked to an alleged coup attempt, a security authority statement said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Darfur rebels attacked an oil field in a rare extension of their campaign east toward the Sudanese capital and said yesterday the military garrison guarding the field had surrendered.
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Eight Ethiopian soldiers have defected to Eritrea over the issue of Somalia, Eritrea's government says.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 3 -- Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.
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Five Europeans and eight Ethiopians kidnapped in remote northern Ethiopia are "unharmed and safe" in the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them across the border in Eritrea, an Afar leader said on Friday.
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Embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia released An abandoned vehicle belonging to the group of Europeans who were kidnapped in Ethiopia.Comment
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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Fifteen Eritreans are jailed for five years each for hijacking a Libyan aircraft being used to deport them.
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Rebels seeking to topple the government of Chad seized a crucial eastern city early on Saturday, according to aid workers based in the region.
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Eritrea has broken up a &quot;terrorist network&quot; backed by Sudan that had plotted to assassinate President Isaias Afwerki and attack civilian targets, the government said in a further escalation of tensions between the two neighbors.
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Two Egyptians working for a telecom company in Baghdad were seized from their offices overnight by a group of armed men, Iraq&#39;s Interior Ministry has said.
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Eritrea denied on Friday that a group  of five Europeans kidnapped in neighboring Ethiopia had been  taken to its country by Afar separatist rebels.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 4 -- Eritrea on Sunday dismissed allegations that its forces had crossed into neighboring Ethiopia and kidnapped five Britons affiliated with their country's embassy and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote border region.
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DORTI CAMP, Sudan  - Angry and dismissive, Darfuris who fled their homes to the relative safety of overcrowded makeshift camps demand Khartoum hand over two war crimes suspects to an international court.
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ATHENS -- Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.