Russia confirms death of hostages in Iraq
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The Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed the death of Russian hostages who worked at its embassy in Iraq, a day after an al-Qaida linked group said it had killed the four captives.
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Russia on Monday mourned the deaths of hundreds of children and adults in its worst hostage drama as criticism mounted over the way President Vladimir Putin and his security forces handled the crisis.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley who was taken hostage in Iraq on Sept. 16 confirmed that the engineer has been killed by his captors.
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BESLAN, Russia Russians stunned by last week&#39;s school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed.
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MOSCOW -- Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis left more than 300 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia&#39;s North Caucasus region remained uncertain yesterday.
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An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed.
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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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Russian forces killed 27 hostage takers  after storming a school held by Chechen separatists and  captured three alive, Interfax news agency quoted officials as  saying on Saturday.
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The families of three Macedonians taken hostage in Iraq say they have been told they are dead.
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TOKYO -- A report says the Japanese government has confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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Britain was urgently investigating unconfirmed reports that Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad in mid-September, has been killed by his captors.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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[World News]: Tokyo, Oct.31 : The Japanese government on Sunday confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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MOSCOW - At least 100 people were killed and more than 600 injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia on Friday where armed militants held hostages for the past three days.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley is killed by his kidnappers in Iraq, his family confirms.
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TOKYO - There are conflicting reports about whether a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq last week has been killed by his captors.
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BESLAN, Russia - 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.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...