Moscow &#39;hostage-taker kills self&#39;
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A stand-off between Russian forces and two army deserters has ended after one of the soldiers shot himself and the other surrendered, Russia&#39;s Interfax news agency reported, quoting a police source.
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Two people have been taken hostage during a riot at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow, reports say.
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CAIRO, September 6  - The Russian school hostage crisis that ended in a bloodbath continued Monday, September 6, to grab the headlines of major media outlets worldwide, with the Russian authorities both handling of the crisis and its &quot;lies
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At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by Chechen rebels strapped with explosives.
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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Russian forces killed 27 hostage takers  after storming a school held by Chechen separatists and  captured three alive, Interfax news agency quoted officials as  saying on Saturday.
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The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over but more than 200 people have died after troops stormed the building.
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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 voice on the phone left no doubt. &quot;If you come by yourself,&quot; the man said, &quot;we&#39;ll kill you.&quot;. Leonid Roshal was on the line with the guerrillas who had seized a school in southern Russia.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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The full force of the hostage tragedy that unfolded in southern Russia begins to hit home in the stunned town of Beslan.
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Gunmen kidnapped six Russians and shot dead a local driver in a dawn attack on a residential compound of a Russian aluminum company in Nigeria on Sunday, authorities said.
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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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THE UNSPEAKABLE tragedy in Beslan, the town in Southern Russia where terrorists seized a school on the first day of class and where more than 300 people
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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MOSCOW: Chechnya's feared warlord Shamil Basayev yesterday claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia that killed more than 338 people, half of them children.
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All the hostage-takers who seized Beslan&#39;s school number one on September 1 were drug addicts and were under the influence of narcotics throughout the 52-hour siege, Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General has claimed.