Russians free Japanese fishermen
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Two Japanese fishermen are released from Russian custody, after allegedly fishing in disputed waters.
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday  two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had  strained relations between the two countries.
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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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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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Japanese whalers say they are trying to return two protesters detained after boarding their vessel.
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Russian security services seized two  containers filled with highly radioactive material at a scrap  yard in central Russia, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
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Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
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Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo said it was launching its i-mode Internet service in Russia and three other former Soviet republics through an agreement with Russia's largest provider Mobile TeleSystems (MTS).
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MOSCOW, Nov 16 (RIA Novosti) - It took the Japanese government quite a while to respond to a Sunday announcement from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about Moscow&#39;s readiness to give two of the South Kuriles to Tokyo in exchange for a peace treaty
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Dozens of ships remain stranded on Russia's key waterway, following an accident several days ago.
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TOKYO -- Japan scrambled yesterday to win the release of a 24-year-old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high-level diplomats to the Middle East and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new talks to resolve the fate of four rocky islands seized from Japan in the closing days of World War Two, prompting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to consider a visit to Moscow.
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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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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Japan on Tuesday ordered the deportation  of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted at home in  the United States for breaking sanctions, rejecting his demand  for protection as a political refugee.
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Russia plans to release the captain from one of four Japanese fishing boats seized in disputed waters last week out of concern for his health, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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Russian special services on Monday freed   all 15 hostages who were being held by inmates at a Moscow   pre-trial detention center, Russia's prison service said.