Soldiers Fight Rebels to End Russian School Siege
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian soldiers fought Chechen  separatists to end a two-day school siege on Friday as naked  children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The hostage standoff at a school near Chechnya ended tragically yesterday with more than 200 children and adults reported killed and hundreds injured in an afternoon of fighting.
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At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by Chechen rebels strapped with explosives.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - A gun battle between rival  forces meant to be keeping the peace in Georgia's separatist  province of South Ossetia killed two Georgian soldiers Monday  and dashed a short-lived cease-fire.
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Rebels urge Russia to peace talks before Feb. 22 cease-fire deadline.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia began counting the cost  on Saturday at the end of siege of a school captured by Chechen  gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh doubts  on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held as heavy gunfire continues.
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Escapees describe fleeing a Russian schoolyard Wednesday morning as guerrillas armed with rifles and explosives took hundreds hostage.
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Holding up the corpse of a man just shot dead in front of hundreds of hostages at a Russian school, the rebel &#151; his pockets stuffed with ammunition and grenades &#151; warned: "If a child utters even a sound, we'll kill another one."
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150...
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Russian troops killed some 50 rebels in a recent operation in Russia&#39;s breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday, quoting.
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Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.
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An unknown Chechen rebel group called the Black Widows organised the siege of a school in the Russian city of Beslan in which hundreds of children, their parents and teachers were killed.
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About 200 chidlren hostages on Friday managed to escape the school when Russian special forces stormed the school seized by gunmen Wednesday morning and hostage-takers tried to flee the school.
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A stand-off between Russian forces and two army deserters has ended after one of the soldiers shot himself and the other surrendered, Russia&#39;s Interfax news agency reported, quoting a police source.
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Armed terrorists stormed a school in southern Russia near the separatist region of Chechnya Wednesday morning, taking hostage more than a hundred students, teachers and parents after a shootout with local police, authorities said.
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MOSCOW Sept. 1, 2004 - Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said.