Russia accepts Norwegian medical aid for Beslan victims
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The Russian authorities have accepted Norway&#39;s offer of medical assistance for the Beslan siege victims. Norwegian health authorities will now send a shipment of medicines and medical equipment to North Ossetia.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, visiting Germany, has agreed on the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union in settling the Chechen conflict.
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Russia recognises it has &quot;problems&quot; in Chechnya and is happy to cooperate with other European countries to solve them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM: Days after a Russian school siege by Chechen separatists ended in a bloodbath, Israel and Russia signed a memorandum to co-operate in fighting international terrorism, an Israeli spokesman said.
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BESLAN: More than 200 people were killed and some 700 were injured on Friday as crack troops stormed a school in southern Russia, freeing children and adults held hostage for almost three days by militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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Russia on Monday began an official two-day mourning period for more than 300 children and adults killed Friday in the bloody end of a hostage crisis at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday gave final orders for a battalion of Russian engineers and explosives experts to travel to Lebanon to help repair the damage inflicted by Israel's campaign to uproot Hezbollah guerrillas.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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NATO and Russia Tuesday agreed to  boost cooperation in the fight against terrorism after a spate  of attacks on Russian soil including the Beslan school siege  that ended with at least 335 deaths.
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Norway resumed direct aid to the Palestinian administration with a $10 million transfer, after it became the first Western country to recognize the new Hamas-led coalition, the foreign minister said Thursday.
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Russia's Orthodox churches are due to hold services for the many victims of the school siege in North Ossetia.
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TWO Russian aircraft have left Moscow for Sri Lanka, carrying 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid for victims of the tsunamis that devastated large parts of the country, ITAR-TASS news agency has reported.
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Russia on Monday said it supported Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's move to form an emergency government, but it urged him and Islamic Hamas to seek a "wide-ranging dialogue" and avert the deepening crisis.
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"The indemnities are financed by international contributions in the form of debt remission"  Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave the way for their release.Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture. Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of the infected children died. Read more
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was expected to offer intelligence and humanitarian assistance to Russia after the Beslan hostage tragedy in talks with visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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MOSCOW, Jan 10  (IPS) - Shock waves from the tsunami hit the little Russian  town Beslan particularly hard.