Negotiators Work on Russia Hostage Crisis
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BESLAN, Russia - A respected pediatrician negotiated through the night to end a standoff with militants who threatened to blow up a school they seized 24 hours before with about 350 hostages, including children, trapped inside.    Crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news of their loved ones as the crisis entered its second day Thursday with no sign of a resolution...
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MOSCOW  - Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday.
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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MOSCOW - Russia offered more than $10 million for information that helps "neutralize" two well-known rebel leaders from breakaway Chechnya accused of planning the school hostage standoff that killed at least 326 people last week, news agencies reported Wednesday.    The reports of the reward came a day after Russians got a horrific glimpse of the drama from video footage filmed by the militants who captured the school in southern Russia...
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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Kabul - Militants who have threatened to kill three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan were due to open talks with government negotiators on Sunday, raising hopes for a peaceful solution to the 10-day-old crisis.
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Taleban-linked militants who are holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan say their captives&#39; lives depend on whether the Kabul government can reach an agreement Monday on the kidnappers&#39; demands.
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MOSCOW -- Militants holding hundreds of hostages in a school in southern Russia freed 26 women and children yesterday as the Russian government intensified negotiations with the captors and relatives of those still inside kept an emotional vigil nearby.
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The French government held crisis talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq Wednesday amid growing uncertainty over whether their kidnappers had demanded a ransom and two-day deadline.
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Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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Russia offered on Wednesday to work with Ukraine's new Western-leaning leader, in an end to its frosty silence over Viktor Yushchenko's election victory.
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Terrorists holding 354 hostages at a school in southern Russia released some women and their children soon after talks to end the crisis resumed, a spokesman for the North Ossetian government said.
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Relatives of victims of the Beslan siege lift a road blocks after promises of talks with a top Kremlin official.
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High-ranking military officials helped the Beslan school hostage-takers, Russian investigators say.
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French officials gathered for crisis talks Tuesday to save the lives of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, while aides to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the release of the reporters as a deadline set by militants
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Hundreds more hostages may be inside a school under siege in southern Russian than first thought, Russian officials have said. As the crisis entered its third day Friday, a spokesman
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.