KHABAROVSK, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russia began on Sunday large-scale military exercises in the Far East to practice interoperability between troops, the press office of the Far Eastern military district said.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – A Tu-154 plane made a safe emergency landing at an airport in the North Caucasus on Saturday night over problems with an engine, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.
// Oct. 28, 2007 - 09:39 GMT
TEHERAN, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – Turkey said on Sunday that a military option was still on the table to deal with Iraq-based separatist Kurdish rebels.
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WASHINGTON, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – U.S. astronauts are making their second spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to attach a node to the station brought by the Discovery shuttle, NASA said on Sunday.
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KIEV, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – Rescuers are evacuating about 500 miners from a coalmine in eastern Ukraine that has caught fire, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN said on Sunday.
// Oct. 28, 2007 - 13:28 GMT
MINSK, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – The Belarus opposition is holding on Sunday an authorized rally to commemorate the victims of the Stalin-era repressions.
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// Oct. 28, 2007 - 14:17 GMT
DONETSK, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – Eight miners are believed to be trapped beneath the rock that collapsed in a coalmine in eastern Ukraine, the regional rescue service said on Sunday.
// Oct. 28, 2007 - 15:33 GMT