Chechen leaders 'order ceasefire'
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Chechen separatist leaders have ordered a ceasefire for the month of February, a leading rebel website reports.
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MPs and religious leaders are to meet Lord&#39;s Resistance Army commanders for talks in Kitgum in northern Uganda. A Christmas ceasefire is in force in parts of the north.
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MOSCOW -- A few days before the election that won him the presidency of Russia's violence-plagued Chechnya region, Major General Alu Alkhanov gave a startling order to the police force he commanded: Shoot anyone wearing a mask.
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GAZA CITY -- Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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Russia announced the creation of a new leadership structure for security services in the north Caucasus to combat terror in the region in the wake of the Beslan school hostage crisis, as tensions continued with United States over its stance towards Chechen rebels.
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A group of Russian mothers, desperate for peace in Chechnya, told rebels in the breakaway region Wednesday they were ready to mediate peace between the government and militants fighting a decade-long battle for independence.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning of preemptive strikes on terrorists. His announcement came shortly after prominent Chechen warlord, Shamil Basayev, claimed responsibility for the bloody school siege in Beslan two weeks ago.
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Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov says his group is planning to try the mastermind of the hostage siege in southern Russia that left more than 330 people, more than half of them children, dead.
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Radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev has apparently taken responsibility for a recent series of terrorist attacks in Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathisers on Saturday they would be seen as "accomplices of terrorism."
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Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said Monday.
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Chechen terrorist leader Samil Basayev has claimed responsibility for several recent terrorist attacks in Russia, including a school hostage siege that left more than 300 adults and children dead, according to a Chechen rebel Web
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened further violence.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who ordered the Beslan school siege, warns he is planning further attacks.
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Announcement of ceasefire with rebel groups to come at start of weekend peace talks, ambassador says.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev must be tried over the Beslan massacre, rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov says.
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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.