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Russia 'failed' in Beslan siege

13/04/2017 GMT

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Russia 'guilty of failings' in its handling of the Beslan school massacre in 2004.

The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of serious failings in its handling of the Beslan school siege in 2004. Russia has rejected the verdict.

Russia has rejected the verdict from the European Court of Human Rights.  Three-hundred-and-thirty-four people died -- mainly children -- in the operation to end the school siege in 2004, Syria's President Assad gives his first interview since the suspected chemical attack, Somalia's worst drought in decades.

(Photo: Russian soldiers and two women take cover during the rescue operation of Beslan. Credit: AFP/ YURI TUTOVYURI TUTOV/GETTY.)

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