Child hostages test Russia's antiterror response
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This time, Russia's counterterrorist resolve is being tested as never before.
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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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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BELSAN, Russia - More than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people - half of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As many as eight people have been reported killed, one of them a school parent...
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MOSCOW - Armed attackers, some wearing suicide-bomb belts, seized a school Wednesday in a Russian region bordering Chechnya and were holding hundreds of children and adults hostage, news reports said. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defense minister said Sunday, citing the school hostage crisis. He said Moscow and the United States see eye to eye on fighting terrorism.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Gunmen held hundreds of children  and adults captive in a school gym into the night in turbulent  southern Russia Thursday, but the Kremlin remained silent about  an attack which amounted to a huge humiliation.
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Seattle&#39;s Russian community reacted with a mixture of sorrow, anger and frustration yesterday: sorrow for the children who died in the hostage crisis at a school in Beslan, Russia; anger
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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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CAIRO, September 6  - The Russian school hostage crisis that ended in a bloodbath continued Monday, September 6, to grab the headlines of major media outlets worldwide, with the Russian authorities both handling of the crisis and its &quot;lies
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages - many of them children - into a gymnasium and threatening to blow up the building if surrounding Russian troops attacked.    Casualty reports varied widely...
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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BESLAN, Russia - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent...
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MOSCOW  - Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children clutching their  mothers' hands, some with tears in their eyes, returned to  schools in Beslan amid heavy security Wednesday, two weeks  after a hostage massacre at a school in the town.
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World leaders expressed horror over the bloody hostage crisis at a school in southern Russia on Friday, saying the attack on schoolchildren showed terrorists have sunk to new lows. Some experts warned that Russia's Chechnya conflict was becoming the next crossroads of international terrorism.
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MOSCOW - Militants released 26 women and children Thursday from the school in southern Russia where they are holding more than 350 hostages, the rescue operation's headquarters said.    Lev Dzugayev, an aide to the North Ossetian president, announced the release of three women and three infants...