ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) - A small group of suspected Islamic militants were barricaded inside an apartment house in southern Russia Saturday in a standoff with hundreds of security forces who evacuated neighbouring buildings and cut off gas supplies. The suspects were holed up inside a second floor apartment in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkariya region, in the latest in a series of confrontations between law enforcement authorities and extremists in the volatile North Caucasus region, which includes Chechnya. Last month, security forces killed seven alleged Islamic extremists in the same city in a two-day battle with members of the...