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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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Rice says U.S. not trying to undermine Russia
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia. "This is not a zero-sum game ...
• U.S. removes N. Korea from terror list
The U.S. previously had demanded the six-nation group negotiating with North Korea — China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S. — approved the agreement before the administration would drop the North from the terrorism list. North ...