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Who is behind Europe’s suspected hybrid attacks?
Bomb hoaxes and supermarket cyberattacks are heightening security fears.
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France investigating if bogus bomb threats against airlines linked to 'foreign powers'
French prosecutors are investigating a series of fake bomb threats that targeted commercial flights in Europe this week, including trying to establish whether foreign powers may be involved. Those responsible for the bogus threats have not been identified.
World
Spate of bomb threats poses serious challenge to airline industry
After a week of disruption, airlines are facing both safety and financial concerns.
Business
Why a wave of bomb threats is proving so difficult for Europe's aviation authorities to contain
The "weakest point of aviation is targeting it in-flight," analysts say — but any change to procedures will be a lengthy process.
Politics
Europe bomb hoaxes widen
The series of hoax bomb scares sent to several Irish media outlets and European airlines are likely part of a coordinated campaign of disruption, according to the Irish government. Dozens of commercial flights have been targetted by email with threats said to be over and above the typical hoax in specificty. Ireland's broadcaster RTE who's staff evacuated the premises this morning and several Italian airlines, say they received a mesage cliaming to be from a Russian extremist group calling itself the Fighters of the Male State, which denied its implication. France 24's Jean-Emile Jammine speak
World
New wave of bomb threats hit European airlines
No link has been established between the threats against the airlines and those against the media outlets.
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New bomb threats target European broadcasters, air traffic
A string of hoax alerts causing flight diversions across Europe this week has broadened to include newsrooms.
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New bomb threats target Irish media, more European flights
Newsrooms have been evacuated across Ireland after another wave of bomb threats. Dublin is hosting a high-level EU meeting in several days.
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'Too early to draw conclusions' as bomb threat hoaxes target European countries
Several Irish media outlets reported receiving bomb threats on Friday as a wave of hoax alerts that had so far mainly targeted airlines continued across Europe, with more than a dozen new flights affected. No explosives have been found in any of the incidents so far. European authorities are scrambling to identify the sources of the threats, as FRANCE 24's Brussels correspondent Dave Keating reports.
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New bomb threats target Irish media, more flights
Newsrooms have been evacuated across Ireland after another wave of bomb threats. Dublin is hosting a high-level EU meeting in several days.
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Hoax or bomb threats? What we know about flight disruptions across Europe
Security inspections reveal no explosives as fighter jets escort planes amid Europe's major wave of bomb threats.
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Bomb hoaxes: Messages reveal how threat was passed on by air traffic control
BBC Verify has been analysing messages after flights across Europe were targeted by fake bomb threats - the second such incident this week.
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Hoax bomb threats force emergency landings, evacuations across Europe
Bomb threats are causing travel disruptions at airports across Europe, targeting at least 27 flights.
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Who could be behind hoax bomb threats to European air travel?
There is no hard evidence so far linking airline bomb threats to Russia, Iran or any proxy groups.
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Hoax bomb threats target European airlines and airports for second time in a week
At least 21 flights across Europe are affected in what the UK government calls a "malicious hoax threat".
Travel
Bomb Hoaxes Test Europe’s Airlines as Geopolitical Pressures Mount
None of this week’s threats has proved real, but each one still cost a diversion, a search and a rebuilt schedule. Whoever sent them, the hoaxes have added to a list of disruptions, from conflict-driven fuel costs to closed airspace, that is making routine flying in Europe ever more challenging.
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Bomb threats disrupt several flights across Europe
At least a dozen flights were either diverted or landed with a military escort after bomb or security threats. The first reported case involved a flight from Dublin to Rome landing outside Paris and more soon followed.
Business
Hoax bomb threats repeatedly disrupt flights across Europe this week. Here’s what we know
Dozens of flights across Europe reported bomb threats this week, disrupting air travel across London, Dublin, and Helsinki.
Politics
Bomb threats cause major flight disruptions across Europe
Bomb threats forced airliners to make unplanned landings across Europe on Thursday morning, the latest in a series of threats targeting flights in Europe. While no country has attributed blame for the threats, they come at a time when European officials have been blaming both Russia and Iran for what they describe as "hybrid attacks" and acts of sabotage. Moscow and Tehran both deny any such campaign. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
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New bomb threats bring more disruption to flights across Europe
Flights make emergency landings in France, Italy and Bulgaria days after bomb threats disrupted air traffic.