Russia Strikes at Militants in North Caucasus

Russian security forces say they killed seven terrorist suspects Saturday in a sweep through southern Russia, three weeks before the Winter Olympics begin in Sochi. Authorities in Moscow said the seven people died when police stormed a house where they had been hiding in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Dagestan republic. All seven were suspects in an attack late Friday that injured 16 people at a restaurant in the regional capital. A spokesman for Russia's National...

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