Russia holds health crisis talks
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Russian ministers meet to tackle the problem of falling life expectancy, especially affecting men.
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KYIV, Ukraine   - A Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate  is in hospital following a sudden illness.
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LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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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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In a phone call yesterday initiated by Vladimir Putin, President Bush and the Russian leader agreed to continue discussing Moscow's concerns about independence for Kosovo, a sensitive subject expected to come up next month in the U.N. Security Council.
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Russia called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday on the hostage-taking at a school in a region bordering Chechnya.
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Senior Palestinian officials convened meetings in the West Bank today in response to conflicting reports over the declining health of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, who has been in a
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WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization is about to hold a summit to prepare for what it says it the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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Russia is to allocate 2bn dollars to reduce prices of medicines within the framework of the implementation of the monetary benefits programme, [Russian] President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with representatives of India&#39;s business circles in
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko met Russian leader Vladimir Putin for last-ditch talks before a deadline on Kiev to pay its gas debts or face supply cuts.
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MOSCOW, Nov. 29 -- Another mysterious illness has struck another prominent Russian. Former prime minister Yegor Gaidar became ill Friday at a conference in Ireland, vomiting and then losing consciousness for three hours, according to his spokesman.
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Offer made at talks aimed at resolving election crisis which so far has cost 1,000 lives
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has called a meeting of NATO states and Russia on Tuesday to discuss the siege of a school by Chechen separatists in which more than 335 people died, a NATO spokesman said.
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Top U.S. and Russian security officials  sought to strike a more conciliatory tone in talks on Thursday  after months of growing tensions between Washington and Moscow.
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Health authorities across the country meet today to discuss stepping up measures against the bird flu, in the wake of possible signs of human-to-human transmission of the lethal virus.
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Former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar discusses his sudden, mysterious illness the day after the death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Yegor Gaidar, a former Russian prime  minister, told the Financial Times he suffered a sudden,  serious illness last week on a visit to Ireland.