Georgia fires at 'Russian plane'
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Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.
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Three Georgian peacekeepers were killed in overnight shooting in South Ossetia, officials said Wednesday, while Russia scoffed at Georgia's appeal for foreign mediation in the breakaway region where daily exchanges of gunfire have stoked fears of war.
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A helicopter carrying Georgia's defense   minister and chief of staff was shot at by rebels from the   breakaway region of South Ossetia, forcing it to make an   emergency landing on Sunday, a military commander said.
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Terrorism, human error or mechanical  mishap could have caused one of Russia's worst air tragedies in  which two planes crashed almost simultaneously and killed at  least 89 people, officials said on Wednesday.
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Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief Tuesday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
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Terrorists were responsible for the downing of at least one of two passenger planes that crashed in southern Russia this week, a Russian official acknowledged yesterday.
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Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels
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One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the action was connected to Russia's fight against Chechen separatists.
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Georgian forces fired on a Russian plane flying over Georgian territory earlier this week after it allegedly violated the republic's air space, the government said yesterday. Authorities could not confirm whether the plane crashed but said residents of the remote area reported hearing an explosion and seeing trees burning after ...
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A pro-Russian breakaway region in Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia's accusation that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to cross Russia as Moscow cracked down on Georgian businesses in the city, the latest retaliatory step in a row that has outgrown the spying claims that sparked it.
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Rebel forces from Georgia's breakaway   region of South Ossetia shot at a Georgian military helicopter   and forced it to make an emergency landing on Sunday, a   Georgian military commander said.
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MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday terrorists were behind one of the passenger-jet crashes as an Islamic group, which previously claimed an attack on prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz, claimed responsibility for the twin plane crashes to avenge the killing
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The Russian authorities are treating the crash of one of the Tupolev airliners as a &quot;terrorist act&quot; - confirming many Russians&#39; suspicions that Tuesday&#39;s twin plane disaster was in no way a tragic freak accident.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - Artillery fire killed at least  three Georgian soldiers in the breakaway South Ossetia region  on Wednesday and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned  Georgia not to repeat "stupid" mistakes that triggered war a  decade ago.
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Georgia and Russia clashed at the United Nations on Wednesday over an incident in which Georgian security forces killed two Russian officers training insurgents in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
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A Russian plane flying from St Petersburg in Russia to Doloman in Turkey had to turn back midflight after a drunken brawl over a young woman spun out of control, police said in a statement on Friday.