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Russian bus explosion kills at least 10 a day after suicide bombing

Russian bus explosion kills at least 10 a day after suicide bombing

Sergei Karpov/Reuters At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a trolleybus in the second deadly blast in the Russian city of Volgograd in two days. MOSCOW — An explosion on a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd left 10 people dead Monday, a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city’s ...

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Leading Russian actor on gays: ‘I’d burn them all alive in ovens’

Leading Russian actor on gays: ‘I’d burn them all alive in ovens’

Mikhail Metzel/AP “I’d burn them all alive in ovens,” Ivan Okhlobystin says of gay people, according to a Russian website. A leading Russian actor, who was formally a priest, has called for gay people to be burned alive in ovens. Ivan Okhlobystin, who stars in the country’s version of hit medical comedy “Scrubs,” says children – he is a father ...

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State probes fight that left Russian boxer with brain damage

Reuters/USA Today Sports Mike Perez won his fight with Magomed Abdusalamov (left) during their heavyweight U.S. NBC Champoinship. Abdusalamov was rushed to hospital when he vomited after the fight. ALBANY — The state inspector general is launching a probe into the New York State Athletic Commission’s handling of a brutal fight that left a Russian boxer with brain damage, the ...

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