Force not planned to end Russia siege-local leader
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Security forces are not planning to use force to end a school siege in southern Russia where an armed group has taken hundreds of hostages, a regional leader said on Friday.
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Russia's Prosecutor General says any possible Russian suspects in the spy poisoning case would not be extradited to Britain.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general on Wednesday warned the military will strike "terrorist bases in any region of the world," while authorities offered a $10 million reward for information leading to two Chechen rebel leaders blamed for last week's deadly raid on a school.    In a nationally televised meeting, Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov also briefed President Vladimir Putin on the investigation into the taking of more than 1,200 hostages in a school last week in the southern Russian town of Beslan...
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Russian missile forces chief Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov speaks to the media, Moscow, Monday, Feb.Comment
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  Thursday ruled out negotiations with Chechen rebels after the  Beslan school bloodbath, further straining ties with Western  leaders who are pressing for a political solution to Chechnya.
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&quot;Russia is not the only country that has announced the possibility of using or carrying out preventive strikes. I would like to stress that we did not invent it,&quot; he added, hinting that Moscow was following a US lead.
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Some of the hostage-takers who seized school number one in Beslan on September 1 were not willing to die like their apparently fanatical leaders and crept out of the school to plan
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Russia&#039;s security council chief said Sunday the Kremlin opposes the use of force against Iran over the country&#039;s nuclear program, state television reported.
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Ukraine's chief prosecutor says Russia is not co-operating with his inquiry into Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning.
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday ruled out any negotiations with Chechen rebel leaders  following the Beslan school hostage-seizure in which more than  320 people were killed, half of them children.
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Russia rejects US criticism of plans to strengthen central government control in the wake of the Beslan siege.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he called a new arms race.
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, refused on Monday to order a public inquiry into last week&#39;s siege and massacre at a middle school in the southern town of Beslan
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq&#39;s prime minister says his forces &quot;will not be lenient&quot; in a crackdown on Fallujah if the city doesn&#39;t turn over a notorious Jordanian militant.
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President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to respond swiftly to a proposal that he become prime minister after Russia's presidential election in March, a senior government official and close Putin ally said Wednesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday ruled out negotiations with Chechen rebels after the  Beslan school bloodbath, further straining ties with Western  leaders who are pressing for a political solution to Chechnya.