Police Play Down Fears of Post-Beslan Reprisals
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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High-ranking military officials helped the Beslan school hostage-takers, Russian investigators say.
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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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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia ruled out for now using  force to free hundreds of children, parents and teachers being  held under threat of death for a second day on Thursday by  armed men at a school near rebel Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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To anyone who remembers the way that past sieges ended in the Caucasus, the chaotic scenes in Beslan were horribly familiar. The storming of the school was not planned.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin may respond to the recent terrorist attacks, including last week&#39;s Beslan school siege that left at least 333 dead and 260 missing, by overhauling the former Soviet nation&#39;s security forces.
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Belarussian guards on the border with Poland have stepped up security because large numbers of Chechens have been trying to go west, reports say.
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Former Gurkha soldiers are providing security for Belfast clampers, it has been revealed.
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Police in the Russian region of Chechnya have new orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask, the local interior minister was quoted as saying Thursday.
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Palestinian policemen, who have been given the task of restraining militants, say they can't or won't do the job. Interviewed at their front-line positions, some say they feel sympathy for the gunmen, while others fear getting shot at by Israeli troops.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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Police had found radioactive traces at two more locations following the death of a Russian ex-spy as British authorities sought to quell fears among the public, after a handful of people were sent for tests.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Wailing and pounding their hands on dirt graves, hundreds of people dressed in black marked the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period for the children and adults killed after terrorists seized a school on the first day of classes.
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Russia's chief prosecutor has ordered  criminal proceedings against three police officers in Beslan,  the town where more than 320 people died in a mass  hostage-taking, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.