Former militants surrender in Chechnya
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About 50 former militants surrendered and handed over their weapons Tuesday in a ceremony led by Chechnya's powerful prime minister, who said rebel numbers were dwindling in the war-ravaged region, officials said.
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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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More than six years since the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, the militant movement is being "contained,"
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Residents of war-ravaged Grozny, the Chechen capital, answer your questions.
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MOSCOW - The horrific school hostage seizure has caused a rift among Chechen rebels, Russian officials claimed Saturday. And in an effort to exploit that division, authorities said insurgents can get the $10 million reward offered for information about their top warlords...
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MOSCOW  - Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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MOSCOW -- Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying yesterday. Nikolai Shepel, Russia's deputy prosecutor general, said forensic specialists found traces of drugs in the bodies of some of the ...
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BESLAN, Russia - Russians rallied against terrorism Tuesday in response to a hostage-taking that claimed more than 350 lives, and President Vladimir Putin denied a link between Russia's policies in Chechnya and the standoff in this southern city.    In an interview late Monday with foreign journalists and academics, Putin again rejected Western calls for negotiations with Chechen rebel representatives, Britain's Guardian daily reported...
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Militants filed out of the Imam Ali Mosque, closed the doors behind them and turned over the keys to Iraq s top Shiite cleric Friday, symbolizing their acceptance of a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting ...
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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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Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.
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Two armed men who hijacked a public bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Wednesday and released their six remaining hostages, ending an 18-hour standoff.
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A human rights group said Friday that 128 people from Chechnya were abducted in 2004 and are still missing, Interfax reported. Known as Memorial, the group also said 241 Chechen
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Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as being from Chechnya, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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Armed militants who seized hundreds of child hostages at a school in southern Russia released two dozen women and small children Thursday afternoon but the guerrillas still rejected proposals for resolving the standoff.
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MOSCOW -- Attackers who stormed a Russian school near the Chechen border have reportedly released about 15 students but continue to hold hundreds of hostages.