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Russian Airline Disasters

  • One Russian passenger airliner crashed and another went missing almost simultaneously, Russia's Emergency Ministry reported on Tuesday. The two planes had more than 90 people on board. One plane carrying 34 passengers and a crew of eight is confirmed to have crashed in the Tula region, about 150 kilometres south of Moscow. Just three minutes later, air traffic controllers lost contact with a second plane carrying 44 passengers and eight crew members. Both planes were medium-range Tupolev jets, one a three-engine model and the other with four engines. There was no word on survivors. Authorities are not ruling out terrorism.
  • Iraqi government officials warned militants in Najaf on Tuesday that their stronghold inside a Shia holy site would be attacked unless they gave up their standoff.
  • A U.S. military tribunal refused to let lawyers question Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and one of his key deputys in the case against an Army reservist charged with abusing inmates at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
  • An earthquake rattled Athens on Tuesday, including the Olympic venues in the Greek capital.


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