Russia bombers in exercises near France
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Two of Russia's strategic bombers made a long-range flight to fire missiles during naval exercises in the Bay of Biscay off France, an air force spokesman said Tuesday, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.
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Russia has armed planes with long-range missiles which could be used against terrorists, local media say.
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Russian security officials are concerned two female suicide bombers who downed two planes last week arrived in Moscow with two other women from Chechnya.
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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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Russian long-range bombers which this  month resumed their Soviet-era practice of flying long-range  patrols near NATO airspace are not armed with nuclear weapons,  a senior air force commander said on Monday.
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Russia expressed surprise on Tuesday  that the United States had scrambled fighter jets at the  weekend to intercept strategic Russian bombers, one of which  flew over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
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BAYONNE, France, Oct 5  - Two ground-to-air missiles have been found in arms caches in southwest France uncovered in weekend raids against suspected members of Spain&#39;s armed Basque separatist group ETA, French officials said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW  - Two strong explosions roar out near the seized school in southern Russia, followed by a continuous rattle of gunfire. Heavily-armed soldiers have been seen racing toward the school.
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Israel has sent intelligence officers to Russia and is hosting at least two senior Russian officers in Tel Aviv &#151; quietly moving to upgrade anti-terror cooperation with Moscow in the wake of a series of devastating attacks in Russia, officials told The Associated Press.
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TWO French police officers will face disciplinary proceedings after bungling a training exercise that caused a slab of explosives to be placed on a flight out of Charles de Gaulle airport, the headquarters of the gendarmerie in Paris said today.
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American fighters intercepted Russian bombers near a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific at the weekend, officials say.
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Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Kirov, 22 September: Detoxification of 3,068 aerial bombs containing VX gas is under way at a chemical weapons destruction facility in the village of Maradykovo (Kirov Region). The first line of the facility was commissioned two weeks ago.
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Russia's security services said on Friday they had found traces of explosives among the wreckage of one of two Russian planes which crashed within moments of each other, calling it a terrorist attack.
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Russian bombers test missiles in the Atlantic as part of navy exercises in the area, a Russian official says.
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Nine Russians are still missing following the deadly car bomb attacks on tourist resorts along the Egyptian-Israeli border which left 33 people dead last week, including at least one Russian national, Russia's consul in Egypt said.
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Russian long-range bombers which this month resumed their Soviet-era practice of flying long-range patrols near NATO airspace are not armed with nuclear weapons, a senior air force commander said on Monday.
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Islamic militants under investigation for allegedly planning an attack on the Russian Embassy in Paris had other targets on their list, including the Eiffel Tower, police and judicial officials said Wednesday.