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  • Lon Snowden of Lehigh County, father of Edward Snowden, says he has secured a visa to visit his son in Russia.
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  • President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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  • In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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  • President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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  • National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said Friday. The big question may be how much choice he actually has.
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  • NSA leaker Edward Snowden left transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum.
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  • This image provided by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, centre, attending a press conference at Moscows Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013.  (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)
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  • The National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been given a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia, Russia's state news agency said Wednesday.
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  • NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said.
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  • This image provided by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, centre, attending a press conference at Moscows Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013.  (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)
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  • Edward Snowden has very sensitive "blueprints" detailing how the National Security Agency operates.
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  • This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The Guardian identified Snowden as a source for its reports on intelligence programs after he asked the newspaper to do so on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Guardian)
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  • National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wants asylum in Russia and is willing to stop sharing information as a trade-off.
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  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  • Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges Wednesday in his first courtroom appearance.
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  • NSA leaker Edward Snowden accepted Venezuela's offer of political asylum, according to a posting Tuesday on the Twitter account of a Russian lawmaker.
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  • This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/The Guardian)
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  • An influential Russian parliament member who often speaks for the Kremlin encouraged NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday to accept Venezuela's offer of asylum.
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  • Bolivia's president left Europe for home on Wednesday in a diplomatic drama after his flight was rerouted and delayed overnight in Austria.
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  • A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites burst into flames and crashed during a launch shown on live TV Tuesday.
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  • NSA leaker Edward Snowden, believed to be in legal limbo in the Moscow airport, is expanding his requests for asylum.
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  • A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashed at a Russia-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday shortly after the launch.
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  • The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.
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  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  • A federal grand jury has returned a 30-count indictment against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to turn over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday.
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  • Take a look as the big fluffy cat slowly defies the law of physics.
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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring.
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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have announced they are divorcing.
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  • Inmates at Russia's prisons have been known to bribe guards to obtain cellphones. But using cats as couriers?
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  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  • The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent
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  • Syrian President Bashar Assad said the regime has received the first shipment of sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft missiles.
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  • The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to Russia on Wednesday to submit a formal protest over Moscow's claim that it caught a U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig trying to recruit a counterintelligence officer for the CIA.
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  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev
  • A Massachusetts community activist plans to raise money to send the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev to Russia for burial.
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  • U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings.
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  • A Collegeville couple is caught in an international firestorm stemming from the adoption of a teen boy from Russia.
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  • The star dancer accused of masterminding the attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief acknowledged Thursday that he gave the go-ahead for the attack.
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  • A Russian ballet star who most recently played the title role in "Ivan the Terrible" at the famed Bolshoi Theater has confessed that he organized the acid attack on the theater's ballet chief, Moscow police said Wednesday.
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  • Child death
  • Russian authorities have blamed "inhuman treatment" for the death of a 3-year-old boy adopted by an American family, but Texas officials say they are still investigating claims that the child was abused before his death.
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  • In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 a meteorite contrail is seen. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Nasha gazeta, www.ng.kz)
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  • A meteor blazed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region Friday and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb.
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  • In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 a meteorite contrail is seen. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Nasha gazeta, www.ng.kz)
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  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile.
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  • Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who has waged a battle against a proposed super-tax on millionaires in his native country, has been granted Russian citizenship.
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  • russian plane crash dashcam
  • Investigators on Sunday examined flight recorders and other evidence to try to determine the cause of the airliner crash in Moscow that killed five people, an official said.
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  • A passenger airliner careered off the runway at a Russian airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing four people.
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  • President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, abruptly terminating the prospects for more than 50 youngsters preparing to join new families and sparking critics to liken him to King Herod.
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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he will sign a controversial bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children, while the Kremlin's children's rights advocate recommended extending the ban to the rest of the world.
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  • The upper chamber of Russia's parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children. It now goes to President Vladimir Putin to sign or turn down.
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