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RUSSIA
7 militants killed as troops raid house
ROSTOV-ON-DON -- Hundreds of security officers stormed an apartment building yesterday in southern Russia, killing seven suspected Islamic extremists linked to Chechen rebels and ending a two-day standoff.
Black smoke billowed from the building in Nalchik, the regional capital of the province of Kabardino-Balkariya, near Chechnya, as police and Interior Ministry troops fired automatic weapons and hurled grenades. The gunmen returned fire, wounding two police officers, the Interior Ministry said.
After a five-hour shootout, authorities found seven bodies, Interior Ministry spokesman Alexei Polyansky said, including the wife of one of the militants and their 8-month-old child.
SOUTH KOREA
North suspected of buying nuke weapon
SEOUL -- North Korea appears to have bought a complete nuclear weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union state, a South Korean newspaper said yesterday, quoting a source in Washington.
Seoul Shinmun quoted the source as saying the United States was checking the intelligence.
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