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Foreign media on Israeli car explosion in Delhi
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the bombings that targeted Israeli Embassy personnel in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. "In the past few months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in a number of places - Azerbaijan, Thailand and others," Mr Netanyahu said ...
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Belarus: 2 killed as explosion hits subway station
An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.The cause of the blast at the station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, was not immediately clear.Several witnesses told The Ass...
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Gay rights icon in Russia speaks of abduction
In more than five years as one of Russia's most vocal gay rights campaigners, Nikolai Alekseyev has been publicly insulted, repeatedly arrested, and pelted with everything from eggs to fists.Now, Alekseyev says, he was kidnapped by people he believes to be members of Russia's security services and held for two days at different locations outside Mo...
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Chernobyl ghost: Fear of radioactivity in Russia fires
As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke.Several fires...
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Foreign media on Israeli car explosion in Delhi
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the bombings that targeted Israeli Embassy personnel in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. "In the past few months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in a number of places - Azerbaijan, Thailand and others," Mr Netanyahu said ...
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Belarus: 2 killed as explosion hits subway station
An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.The cause of the blast at the station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, was not immediately clear.Several witnesses told The Ass...
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Gay rights icon in Russia speaks of abduction
In more than five years as one of Russia's most vocal gay rights campaigners, Nikolai Alekseyev has been publicly insulted, repeatedly arrested, and pelted with everything from eggs to fists.Now, Alekseyev says, he was kidnapped by people he believes to be members of Russia's security services and held for two days at different locations outside Mo...
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Chernobyl ghost: Fear of radioactivity in Russia fires
As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke.Several fires...
