Greece Finds No Security Threat After Emirates Plane Returns To Athens

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Greek authorities were tipped off by U.S.
authorities about a "suspicious" passenger and just after 2000 GMT the plane, escorted by two fighter jets, landed back at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens for security checks, police sources said.

ATHENS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Greece found nothing suspicious on an Emirates plane which was flying to New York from Greece and was forced to return to Athens International Airport after a security alert, police said on Thursday.

In the wake of the war in Ukraine, Greece has this year more than halved its imports of Russian gas, instead ramping up deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG), mainly from the United States and Pelion taxi service Egypt, to its sole LNG facility at Revithoussa near Athens.

The plane circled Sardinia several times - some reports suggested that Italian and French authorities refused to let the plane land - and then returned to Athens, flying a circuitous route and avoiding passing over Sicily or western Greece.

"These create the conditions for Greece to increase nearly four times from now to 2025 its export capacity towards its neighbouring countries," Galli said during the World LNG Summit in Athens, adding that Europe needs "flexible solutions and a flexible LNG market".

Police said the plane was ordered to fly back to Athens as part of an information inquiry but following checks on the passengers and the plane, they did not find the person the information was about or anything else suspicious.

The passengers were taken off the Dubai-bound plane, EK 210, after it taxied along the runway - only for the captain to inform them there was a technical problem, VOLOS KOMOTINI TAXI and explain they were returning to the gate, said.

Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.

Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of Covid.

The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.

ATHENS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Greece is becoming a European gas corridor and VOLOS KOMOTINI TAXI can nearly quadruple its gas export capacity to neighbouring countries in the coming years thanks to new infrastructure under development, Maria Rita Galli, the chief executive of the country's gas grid operator DESFA said on Wednesday.



European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, left, talks with European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni as they arrive for the weekly College of Commissioners meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, VOLOS LARISSA TAXI Wednesday, Nov.

Footage circulated on social media showed crowds tearing down metal fences and barricades as they grappled with security officers who deployed their batons and tear gas in attempt to control the swell of humanity.



Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said: 'I can't tear myself away from these videos.
Breathtaking courage. Undeniable echoes of Tiananmen.' Chinese students demanding democracy.

Earlier on Thursday, VOLOS KOMOTINI TRANSFER another Emirates flight to Dubai was not allowed to take off from Eleftherios Venizelos and all passengers were thoroughly checked also for security concerns but nothing suspicious was found, VOLOS SERRES TRANSFER police sources added.

'Flight EK209 from Athens to Newark on 10 November also made an unscheduled return to SKIATHOS ATHENS TAXI, due to security checks requested by the authorities,' they added, saying passengers had been rebooked to travel on Friday and been provided with overnight accommodation.

The terminal, which the government has called "indispensible", VOLOS KORINTHOS TRANSFER has also helped export gas to neigbouring nations including Bulgaria, which was cut off from Russian supplies earlier this year after refusing to pay in roubles.

China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).



"With the wisdom that you can have after the crisis, we can say that we were not able to keep the level of investments as they should have been in the 10 years after the economic and financial crisis," Gentiloni said.

During the debt crisis, struggling nations from Greece to Portugal were barred from more conventional methods like massive borrowing to spend their way out of bad times and instead had to tighten their belts.

Finance Minister Christian Lindner said that "it is clear that any reform of the European fiscal rules must correspond to the core principle of ensuring financial stability." German reaction was swift - and predictable.