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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Teachers who survived the Beslan school siege say nearly 400 former hostages are still unaccounted for.
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Hundreds of Russians are rescued after ice-floes on which they had been fishing broke away from the shore.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood...
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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A Slovak aid worker kidnapped in the turbulent southern Russian republic of Ingushetia in May is freed by Russian forces.
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WHO: Thousands of Russian retirees and military veterans.
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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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Russian and Chinese rescue workers found the bodies of two of six Russian tourists who have been missing in China's vast far west for nearly two weeks, state media reported on Saturday.
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MOSCOW - More than 320 bodies have been recovered from a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, after a three-day hostage-taking, officials said Saturday.
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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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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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MOSCOW - Militants released 26 women and children Thursday from the school in southern Russia where they are holding more than 350 hostages, the rescue operation's headquarters said.    Lev Dzugayev, an aide to the North Ossetian president, announced the release of three women and three infants...
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Russian and Chinese rescue workers  found the bodies of two of six Russian tourists who have been  missing in China&#39;s vast far west for nearly two weeks, state  media reported on Saturday.
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Taliban militants have freed three Afghans abducted with two French colleagues nearly two months ago, their aid group and a spokesman for the extremist movement said Sunday.
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High-ranking military officials helped the Beslan school hostage-takers, Russian investigators say.