Women tried to flee Moscow center blaze
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The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early Saturday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Women who lost relatives in Russia's Beslan school siege ransacked a courtroom on Tuesday as the judge granted an amnesty to three local policemen accused of failing to stop gunmen seizing the school.
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A number of people are reportedly trapped in a serious blaze at London's iconic Camden Market.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- Two Russian cosmonauts climbed out of the international space station Wednesday to install protective panels designed to shield the orbiting outpost from dangerous space debris.
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By Louis Galvan, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 8--As flames devoured a Calwa home early Wednesday and rescuers tried to break through security bars blocking windows and doors, neighbors could hear the cries of a little girl trapped inside.  "She was shouting, 'Mommy, Mommy.
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Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 911 operator not to hang up. "Can you stay on the line with me, please? I feel like I'm dying," Doi said.
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Two women pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, arson and bomb charges in the 2001 firebombing of the University of Washington's horticulture center, one of the Northwest's most notorious acts of ecoterrorism.
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MOSCOW, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - A special task force unit freed both women who were held hostage by two armed army deserters in the Moscow region.
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Hundreds of people flee a fire at an Istanbul film event but no-one appears to have been seriously hurt.
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A fire broke out in a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday, killing 42 people, Russian news agencies reported.
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The mother of six of the seven children killed in a fire told family members that she did everything she could to get the kids out, but she was overwhelmed by the smoke.
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There was a moment when Vika Kallagova could have fled the hellish maelstrom of bullets, screams and explosions that School No. 1 had become on the first day of September.
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Moscow police are conducting a partial evacuation at the Kursk railway station in central Moscow as they search for explosives after receiving an anonymous phone call from a man threatening
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A fire at a Moscow drug rehabilitation clinic on Saturday killed 45 female patients and staff whose attempts to flee were hampered by metal grilles blocking escape routes, emergency services said.
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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow killed 45 women.
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Two Chechen women suspected of blowing up two airliners were friends who disappeared from the Caucasus in the company of two other women two days before the planes went down, a top Russian newspaper reported.
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MOSCOW - A fire destroyed an apartment building in the southern Russian region of Tuva Wednesday, killing 18 people and injuring at least 18 others, an emergency official said.