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The US secretary of state has denied that a visit to Kazakhstan is designed to oveshadow the country's links with Russia.
05/10/2008
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Russian troops have dismantled a checkpoint set up inside Georgia during August's conflict over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
05/10/2008
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Russia's supreme court has formally rehabilitated Nicholas II, the country's last tsar, declaring that he and his family were unlawfully killed by Soviet authorities in an act of political repression.
01/10/2008
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Beitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's most senior Taliban leader, may have died after falling ill, according to Pakistan security sources.
01/10/2008
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Russia has dispatched a warship to the pirate-ridden waters off Somalia, after a Ukrainian freighter was seized on Thursday.
26/09/2008
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Russia and Venezuelan officials have agreed to boost co-operation in the oil and gas industry, the latest sign of strengthening ties between two nations trying to lessen the influence of the United States around the world.
26/09/2008
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US Republicans have proposed an alternative bail-out plan in a bid to solve the country's financial crisis, but the move has been criticised for further stalling government efforts to stay the country's economic meltdown.
26/09/2008
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Hundreds of customers have descended on branches of Hong Kong's Bank of East Asia (BEA) to demand their deposits back amid continuing nervousness over the state of global financial markets.
25/09/2008
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Rescue workers are searching through the smouldering remains of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad after a truck-bomb attack killed at least 53 people and left more than 200 injured.
21/09/2008
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German police have clashed with counter-demonstrators in Cologne while authorities have banned a nationalist group from staging a rally against plans to build a big mosque in the city.
21/09/2008
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Dozens of immigrants have rioted after six African men were shot dead in a southern Italian town.
20/09/2008
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Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has accused Nato of provoking the conflict with Georgia, but he said strains with the West did not mean Russia planned to isolate itself behind a new Iron Curtain.
20/09/2008
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Thousands of litres of milk and a wide range of other dairy products are being pulled from shop shelves across China as the scandal over tainted and potentially deadly milk products continues to spread.
19/09/2008
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Condoleezza Rice has called on the West to resist what she called Russian "bullying", accusing the country of taking a "dark turn" since it emerged from the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago.
19/09/2008
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Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, has signed treaties with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, commiting Moscow to defend the Georgian breakaway regions from any outside attack.
18/09/2008
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