Russia&#39;s Orthodox head hails return home of icon
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Orthodox Patriarch Alexiy has hailed the return of a Russian icon thought &quot;lost forever&quot;, kissing a Catholic envoy dispatched to improve centuries of strained ties and possibly paving the way for a papal visit.
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Mikhail Youzhny provided Russia with a home winner of the St Petersburg Open on Sunday as he dispatched Karol Beck of Slovakia in the final.
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Pope Benedict made a triumphant  return on Saturday to Munich, where he served as archbishop for  five years, and told the cheering crowds he was deeply moved to  come back to his Bavarian homeland.
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Russian president awarded accolade for making his country 'critical to the 21st century'
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The Russian government has returned to making select "acquisitions."
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MOSCOW -- President-elect Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine moved yesterday to repair relations with Russia, announcing that he will visit Moscow the day after his inauguration Sunday. He then will make a swing through the European Union, which Ukraine hopes to join, before returning home to the former Soviet republic.
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Turkey&#39;s prime minister returned home Saturday to a hero&#39;s welcome with some 2,000 supporters waving Turkish and European Union flags at the airport to celebrate a historic
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Chances of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Patriarch Alexy II at a neutral location are improving, a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church was quoted as telling a German magazine this week.
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Pope John Paul II's gift to the Russian Orthodox Church of a precious icon arrives in Moscow.
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MOSCOW: Russia celebrated a holiday on Sunday that under the Julian calendar was in October, that commemorates the beginnings of a state that no longer exists.
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MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin signaled yesterday that he might return to the presidency after 2012, hours after the Russian leader said new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov could make a good successor to him.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Russia on Saturday, more than two weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said.
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MUNICH -- Pope Benedict XVI returned to his homeland yesterday in what he described as a joyous personal journey, but one that highlights the decline of traditional Roman Catholicism in the heart of Europe.
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Russia&#39;s president, on a state visit to India, arrived in Bangalore Saturday to talk with the area&#39;s information technology executives.
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The ongoing celebration in the Ukrainian capital is beginning to take on a tinge of nostalgia.
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Joseph Estrada, the ousted former president and action hero free for the first time in 6 1/2 years a pardon by his successor, made a joyous return home on Friday, greeted by thousands of cheering suporters.
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MAXINE McKEW: In Russia this festive season, there appears to be a sign of peace and goodwill from hard-line leader Vladimir Putin.