Russian Siege Sparks World Horror, Solidarity
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin.
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WORLD leaders and governments today condemned the hostage taking of more than 100 people, including children, at a school in southern Russia as the UN Security Council prepared
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BESLAN, Russia -- Hundreds of children, their parents, and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school Wednesday and ended in hours of battle with Russian troops Friday.
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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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Russia was braced for a bloodbath last night after terrorists with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide bomb belts stormed a school and took up to 400 hostages, at least 130 of them children.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.
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The Russian rage over the terrorists&#39; slaughter of innocents in Beslan is still fresh. The world still stands in disbelief. And now, Russians wait for the response from President Vladimir Putin.
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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FOR many Russians it was a week of funerals, mourning and horrified disbelief. The reaction of Vladimir Putin to the deaths in Beslan, however, has been rather different: to go on the offensive.
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People in the Russian town of Beslan mark the end of 40 days of mourning for those who died in last month's school siege.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theater, survivors and victims' relatives on Tuesday commemorated the tragedy &#151; a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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Russia on Monday mourned the deaths of hundreds of children and adults in its worst hostage drama as criticism mounted over the way President Vladimir Putin and his security forces handled the crisis.
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MOSCOW (CP) - As Russia's summer of terror reached a bloody climax Friday, it might be easy to forget that a long and agonizing conflict is behind the headline-grabbing horrors that have included exploding airliners, suicide bombs in crowded subway stations and hundreds of schoolchildren taken hostage.
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As Russia reels from the hostage crisis at School No. 1 in Beslan, in the republic of North Ossetia, the repercussions continue. Russian President Vladimir Putin has furiously blamed Islamic terrorists for