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DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia’s last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday.Bone...
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Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the women’s 20-kilometer race walk gold medal in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing...
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The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from...
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Georgia’s president has told The Associated Press he does not believe Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw from most of the country in the coming days.
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Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
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The price of oil fluctuated above $114 a barrel Wednesday, propped up by worries about tropical storms and heightened tension between Russia and the West, but hampered...
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Norway’s Defense Ministry says Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.
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President Bush says the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of Georgia and that the United States will work with allies to insure Georgia’s...
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Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull...
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The Bush administration says Russian troops are beginning to withdraw from war-battered Georgia but that the pullback is not significant and needs to increase.
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The Beijing Olympics have left the world’s human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and...
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India’s Jitender Kumar lost to Russian pugilist Georgy Balakshin in the 51kg flyweight category in the Olympics boxing competition on Wednesday.
After falling...
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NATO foreign ministers strengthened their ties to Georgia and called for Russia to observe a ceasefire
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an...
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A top Russian general says 64 of the country’s soldiers were killed and 323 wounded in this month’s fighting with Georgia.
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A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an...
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Larisa Ilchenko of Russia has won the gold medal in the women’s 10-kilometer marathon swim, an event making its Olympic debut.
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India has placed missile orders worth $2 billion with India-Russia military joint venture BrahMos, the firm’s managing director was quoted as saying by...
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Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles...
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It’s unlikely any comprehensive immigration bill will be passed if its creation is left up to Congress, according to the former head of U.S. Citizenship and...
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Answers to the mystery of what befell the heirs of the last czar of Russia nearly a century ago may rest behind locked laboratory doors in Moscow and New England.DNA...
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Maj. Bobby Toon is known as the Pig Czar at the huge army post on Georgia’s western edge.He has been assigned to help rid Fort Benning of its unwanted guests: an...
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A woman holds a photo of the last Russian Czar Nicholas II with his family during a nationalists’ rally to celebrate his birthday in Moscow, Monday, May 19, 2008. About two hundred Russian nationalists and monarchists held a rally in Moscow to remember...
