&#39;Black Widows&#39; behind Beslan tragedy
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An unknown Chechen rebel group called the Black Widows organised the siege of a school in the Russian city of Beslan in which hundreds of children, their parents and teachers were killed.
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The widow of former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko has accused Moscow of involvement in his murder, as the probe into who administered the fatal dose of radioactivity widened.
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Comment in Russia and across Europe is dominated by the bloody conclusion to the school siege in Beslan, North Ossetia.
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BESLAN, Russia Russians stunned by last week&#39;s school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed.
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Russia marks the third anniversary of the Beslan school siege, in which hundreds of people died.
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The shock of the horror of Beslan will linger for a long time, but the local repercussions are only just beginning. It is time to start paying serious attention to the North Caucasus.
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MOSCOW  - Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theatre, survivors and victims' relatives Tuesday commemorated the tragedy - a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The hostage standoff at a school near Chechnya ended tragically yesterday with more than 200 children and adults reported killed and hundreds injured in an afternoon of fighting.
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BESLAN, SEPTEMBER 5: The sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russiaâs school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan on Sunday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Women who lost relatives in Russia's Beslan school siege ransacked a courtroom on Tuesday as the judge granted an amnesty to three local policemen accused of failing to stop gunmen seizing the school.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Grief-stricken mothers and  fathers trudged through mud and rain on Monday to bury children  slaughtered in a Russian school siege as criticism mounted over  the way the Kremlin handled the crisis.
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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.
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CHECHEN warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage siege in Beslan. The claim was reportedly made through a letter posted on a rebel website today.
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The BBC's Steve Rosenberg speaks to two Moscow women whose lives have been changed by the Beslan siege.
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The ultimate blame for the tragedy that exploded in Russia on Friday rests squarely on the shoulders of terrorists who deliberately place children in harm&#39;s way to make a political point.
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting