Official: 16 Killed in Russian Crisis
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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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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels in separatist Chechnya on Monday, including a man officials said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya's pro-Moscow president, media reported.
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MOSCOW Sept. 17, 2004 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev purportedly took responsibility Friday for a bloody school siege and other recent terrorist attacks that have killed more than 430 people, but
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Sixteen Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with Nepalese security forces Thursday in the western district of Dailekh, Royal Nepal Army spokesman Deepak Gurung has told CNN.
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An avalanche on a road linking the Tajik capital Dushanbe with the second city kills 16 people, police say.
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Four Russian soldiers were killed and  three others wounded when rebels attacked a military base in  Chechnya, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Heavy snow leaves at least 16 people dead and causes transport chaos in central and eastern China.
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Russia on Monday began an official two-day mourning period for more than 300 children and adults killed Friday in the bloody end of a hostage crisis at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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&quot;There were 16 people travelling aboard. ... It crashed into a mountain,&quot; Col. Antonio Rivero, head of the Civil Protection service, told.
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RIGA  - At least nine Russians were killed and dozens injured in a bus accident in Latvia, the Baltic country&#39;s state rescue service reported.
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MORE than 200 people - including children - are believed to have died after the school hostage crisis in Russia came to chaotic and bloody end today.
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&quot;Our latest data shows 16 dead with most of them killed after their houses collapsed on them. This. He said the quake damaged more than 600 houses, six schools, several churches and mosques.
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At least nine Russians were killed and dozens injured in a bus accident in Latvia, the Baltic country's state rescue service reported.
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At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistanâs capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.
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At least 16 Afghan policemen die when their checkpoint in the southern province of Kandahar is attacked.
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Terrorism, human error or mechanical  mishap could have caused one of Russia's worst air tragedies in  which two planes crashed almost simultaneously and killed at  least 89 people, officials said Wednesday.
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Nepali troops killed at least 16 Maoist rebels and lost 10 soldiers in a an overnight gunbattle, the deadliest single clash since the collapse of peace talks last year, an army official said on Sunday.