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• Quake kills 12 in Russia's North Caucasus
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia's North Caucasus Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of hospitals, schools and other buildings, emergency officials said. The quake hit around 1 p ...
• Google founder visits Russian cosmodrome
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist. Richard Garriott, a U.S. computer ...
• Russia steps up Georgia pullout plans
Russian forces leave the town of Sukhumi in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia on Monday. Moscow must pull back thousands of troops from buffer zones surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Friday under the terms of a deal brokered by France ...
• Grrr! Russia's Putin gets tiger cub for birthday
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin poses with his female tiger cub at the Novo Ogaryovo residence of outside Moscow on Thursday. Sept. 2: After the poisoning death of an ex-KGB agent and the Russia-Georgia war, the New York Times' Alan Cowell ...
• Olmert to Moscow: Don't arm Israel's enemies
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, traveling to Russia this week on one of his last diplomatic missions, said Sunday he would urge Moscow not to sell sophisticated weapons to Israel's enemies. Iran is interested in buying anti-aircraft missiles ...