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Newsroom bomb threats follow escalating European flight hoaxes

Global Published 7 November 2026, 04:51 · archived 7 Nov 2026

BUDAPEST/DUBLIN/PRAGUS: Newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria received emailed bomb threats on Friday from a purported “Mikhail Andropov”, claiming responsibility for a widening wave of hoax threats disrupting passenger flights across Europe. The messages, sent to Bulgaria’s Nova TV and the Irish public broadcaster RTE, which evacuated its offices, were headlined “Message to the West” and portrayed the threats as the prelude to a series of attacks on means of transport across Europe. The British broadcaster Sky also said it had received a security threat. Reuters was not able to establish the iden...

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