Mexico hijackers threaten to blow up plane, TV station reports

A commercial airliner carrying 104 passengers was hijacked Wednesday on the tarmac at Mexico City’s airport. Three abductors — possibly Bolivians or Colombians — aboard the Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet have threatened to blow it up if their demand to speak to President Felipe Calderon is not met, CNN affiliate TV Azteca said.

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Peacekeeping staff kidnapped in Darfur

Two international staffers supporting the peacekeeping mission in the volatile Sudanese region of Darfur were kidnapped Saturday morning, a spokesman for the peacekeeping force told CNN. The man and the woman, whose identities and nationalities were withheld, worked for UNAMID, a U.N.

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