New outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu are likely in Moscow and the surrounding provinces, the government veterinary service warned Wednesday, as officials also confirmed the presence of the virus in a southern region of Russia.
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February 22, 2007Norwegian authorities detained the captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a Ukrainian giant An-22 cargo plane on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, the Associated Press reports.
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January 9, 2007Russia on Wednesday denounced as “exceedingly cruel†the death sentences passed by a Libyan court on six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, the Reuters news agency reported.
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December 20, 2006
One of Russia’s main zoos has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but a local health expert ruled this out as the cause of their deaths.
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December 19, 2006The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is marking the 10th anniversary of the murder of six of its international workers by unidentified gunmen in the village of Novye Atagi in Chechnya, RFE/RL reported Monday.
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December 18, 200625 school children got poisoned after taking pills in southwest Russia, the Emergencies Ministry’s city department said on Friday, the Xinhua news agency reports.
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December 15, 2006The Russian police annually expose about 100,000 crimes connected with illegal drug trafficking. Chief of the office of the Department for Combating Organized Crimes and Terrorism of the Russian Interior Ministry Stanislav Orlov told journalists about it on Tuesday.
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December 5, 2006A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006Dozens of believers lit candles and joined in a prayer service in a small Russian Orthodox church in Moscow on Friday to mark World AIDS Day, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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