Russians rescued after missing for 3 months
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Russian rescuers on Friday saved 11 people stranded for nearly three months in a remote area of the Pacific coast after a fishing trip went wrong, local media reported.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed today, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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Rescue teams on Friday found two members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges in western China.
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The Taliban on Sunday released three Afghan aid workers who had been kidnapped along with their two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a spokesman for the group said. The report could not immediately be verified.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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Four serious criminals who were recaptured have gone missing again, it emerges.
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A Russian ship rescued two well-known Canadian adventurers who got caught in a storm while attempting to cross the Bering Straight in a row boat, authorities said.
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Security forces raided a Moscow jail and freed the warden and 14 employees several hours after they were seized Monday by inmates wearing guards' uniforms and armed with metal rods, Russian authorities said.
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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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Russian police on Thursday freed three hostages held in a home north of Moscow by two army deserters who had fled their garrison armed with assault rifles, police said. The freed hostages were unharmed.
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Georgia on Monday released four Russian officers whose arrest on spying charges prompted Moscow to announce sweeping travel and communications sanctions in the worst bilateral crisis in years.
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Rescuers have recovered 102 bodies from   a Russian airliner which crashed on landing after a domestic   flight to Siberia on Sunday, the Emergencies Ministry said.
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Russian special forces stormed a school Friday ending a three-day hostage crisis and freeing hundreds of children, parents and teachers held without
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Two Russian cosmonauts and the first Malaysian in space returned to Earth on Sunday in an unusually abrupt and off-target manner after leaving the orbiting the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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Rescue services brought hundreds of fishermen to safety Saturday after they were stranded on ice floes that had broken away from the coast in Russia's Far East, emergency officials said.