A black box recording from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 confirms smoke on board, Egyptian investigators have said.

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An EgyptAir aircraft that made an emergency landing in Uzbekistan following a bomb threat has resumed its flight to Beijing, Egyptian officials said.

The families of six crew members on a Malaysian passenger jet shot down over Ukraine have filed lawsuits against Malaysia Airlines for negligence and breach of contract.

A French company has confirmed that its special undersea search ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.

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EgyptAir will contract two foreign firms, one French and one Italian, to help search for the black boxes of its plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, the airline’s chairman said.

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A submarine from the Egyptian oil ministry is heading to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804. It will join the search for the cockpit voice-and-flight data recorders, or black boxes, the country’s president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, said.

As French authorities question airport staff who had access to EgyptAir Flight 804, cleaning crews are among those drawing attention.

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Shares in Thomas Cook plunged 19% yesterday as it said its summer bookings fell as security concerns meant more holidaymakers opted for breaks in Spain over Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt, outstripping its efforts to adjust flights.

One of the early theories being explored by aviation and security experts is that the disappearance of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo may have been caused by an explosive device.

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The British passenger who posed for a photo with his alleged captor on the hijacked Egyptian plane said it has to be “the best selfie ever”.

A Cyprus court has ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the island by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.

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By now, you might have seen the photo doing the rounds of the British man who posed for a photo with the EgyptAir hijacker.

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An Egyptian man has hijacked an EgyptAir plane and forced it to land in Cyprus, where most passengers were eventually allowed to get off, though the crew remain on board.

Latest: Seven people, including three passengers, are being held hostage aboard the EgyptAir plane after it diverted to Larnaca airport on the Mediterranean island during a domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo.

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An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt’s skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Al-Jazeera English reporter Peter Greste has left Egypt after the president approved his deportation following more than a year behind bars in a case that was widely condemned by rights groups.

A plane travelling between Egypt and the US has made an emergency landing at a Scottish airport.

The United Nations is pulling staff out of Syria because of deteriorating security conditions as fighting between rebels and government forces raged near the capital Damascus.

Egypt’s national air carrier has grounded its international flights from Cairo because of a 12-hour strike by the company’s flight attendants.

Kenya’s main airport had to shut down after an Egyptian airliner veered off the runway, an official said.

A transatlantic jet which suffered an engine failure diverted to Shannon yesterday where it landed with its one remaining engine.

EGYPT’S military rulers have called for an end to strikes and protests as thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and transport workers, demonstrated to demand better pay in a growing wave of labour unrest unleashed by the democracy uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

Egypt was hit by a wave of pay strikes by public sector workers today, even as the interim government managed to virtually clear out demonstrators from Tahrir Square.