Bomb threats hit European newsrooms on Friday.

Among those that received a warning was British broadcaster Sky, which said it had carried out a security assessment and reported the matter to the authorities. Bulgaria's Nova TV and Irish public broadcaster RTE received emailed messages signed by a purported “Mikhail Andropov,” headlined “Message to the West,” which portrayed the threats as a prelude to more disruption across Europe. RTE briefly evacuated its staff from its Dublin building on Friday morning; the warning said a bomb would explode within 45 minutes.
The Irish government said hoax bomb claims were also sent to Virgin Media, Newstalk radio and The Irish Independent, and assessed that “it seems likely that this is a coordinated campaign of disruption.” Jets escorted airliners flying from Brussels to Sofia and from Prague to Bucharest and Cyprus through Hungarian airspace, according to Hungarian Defense Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, who also said NATO had ordered an air patrol near the Hungarian-Romanian border.