N Caucasus president 'flees mob'
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Protesters storm the president's office in Cherkessk, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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Bangladesh's controversial election chief has bowed to pressure to step aside, the president said, after thousands of opposition supporters poured onto the streets to demand his removal.
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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has left the country hours after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity.
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Afghan warlord General Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, says report.
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Police evicted a handful of families Wednesday from temporary homes set up to house them after they were displaced 15 years ago by fighting in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a human rights activist said.
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OISKHARA, Russia - A man tried to bring a suspicious package to a polling station in Chechnya on Sunday during the republic's presidential election, then died in an explosion as he ran away, the head of the Chechen election commision said on Russian television.    The Chechens voted for a president to replace the Kremlin-backed leader who was killed in a bomb blast in May...
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THE wife and children of Mark Thatcher fled South Africa yesterday to escape the furore that has erupted since the British businessman&#39;s arrest last week for allegedly financing a botched coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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Russian police surround a block of flats in the North Caucasus where a rebel leader is thought to be hiding.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai broke off from a speech and was hustled safely away from a ceremony at Kabul's sports stadium on Sunday after what sounded like gunshots in the vicinity, witnesses said.
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Supporters of Abkhazia presidential candidate Sergei Bagapsh storm the president's office in Georgia's breakaway region.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party expels an ex-minister  who is to challenge Robert Mugabe for the presidency in March.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered heads of his Mehdi Army militia to leave Iraq and asked the government to arrest "outlaws" under a U.S.- backed crackdown, Iraq's president said on Thursday.
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.
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The alleged ringleader of an anti-government plot has fled Sudan, a senior official from his Popular Congress (PC) party said, after the authorities had spent weeks searching Khartoum for him.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered heads of his Mehdi Army militia to leave Iraq and asked the government to arrest "outlaws" under a U.S.-backed crackdown, Iraq's president said on Thursday.
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Top Al-Qaeda operatives have fled sanctuaries near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan to cities and other countries after army raids, President Pervez Musharraf was reported as saying.