Apparent hijack note sparks Moscow security response
An East Line TU-154 bound from Tyumen to Moscow landed at Domodedovo after a note demanding 621000 rubles and a bomb threat. Police searched the plane, questioned 70 male passengers, and found no weapons or hostage. handwriting samples were sent for analysis. Authorities labeled it not terrorism but hooliganism.
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Chinese engineers blow up levees to ease Yangtze flood
In Hubei and Jianli County engineers dynamited secondary dikes to divert up to 28 billion cubic feet of water into farmland behind the dikes. Police had evacuated about 50,000 residents, with compensation pledged for losses. The aim is to lower the Yangtze water level by four to ten inches and avoid broader inundation upriver.
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Gunman steals painting from Auckland Art Gallery
A man armed with a sawed-off shotgun and crow bar bursts into the Auckland Art Gallery and seizes a 19th century painting titled Still on Top by Jacques-Joseph Tisso, valued at up to 1 million. Staff and visitors were told to get down.
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