Images of Beslan hostages add to Russia's agony
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Horrifying pictures of masked gunmen stepping through pools of blood as they wire a gym crammed with hundreds of terrified children, teachers and parents in the opening hours of the Beslan hostage tragedy were aired by Russian television.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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WHEN it came, the end of the siege at School No1 in the small north Ossetian town of Beslan was the worst possible outcome. It was protracted, chaotic and bloody and a catastrophe not just for the families
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For years, Chechnya's war and misery has been a wound in Russia's side that festered through mistreatment and neglect. After last week's school hostage tragedy, which followed twin airline explosions and a suicide bombing in Moscow just days before, the region's ills threaten to engulf the entire nation.
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Hundreds of people, including many children, are being held hostage in a school in Beslan by armed militants. What is your reaction?
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Russia marks the third anniversary of the Beslan school siege, in which hundreds of people died.
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Reporters covering Beslan say they were drugged by officials.
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A numb Russia observed the first of two days of national of mourning today for the hundreds of victims of the school siege while criticism mounted on the government over its handling of the situation.
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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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THIS WEEK's terrifying school hostage incident in Russia -- already being called that country's 9/11 -- will have reverberations around the world.
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.
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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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Families in Beslan are facing a third day burying their dead as the Russian government comes under growing pressure over its handling of the school siege.
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Public confidence in the media in Russia has fallen to rock-bottom levels following controversial coverage of the Beslan school siege.
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They kneel before the camera. They are rigid with fear. Or they are crying, clearly unhinged, begging for their lives. They are hostages, flanked by masked men who carry swords or AK-47s -- the grim reapers of this age of televised terror.