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Victoria Obidina, a nurse who was separated from her four-year-old daughter Alisa by Russians during evacuation from Azovstal, was released today as part of exchange. As reported, on May 7 this year, the evacuation of civilians - women, children and the elderly - who were in the shelters of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol was completed. During the last evacuation, the occupants, who carried out the so-called filtration measures in Mangush, separated a woman-medic and her 4-year-old daughter Alisa. The mother remained in the filtration camp on the territory of the "DNR", and the girl from Zaporizhzhia was later reunited...

FEDS VOW TO GET TOUGH ON ILLEGALS Tue Aug 23 2005 17:15:30 ET Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, acknowledging public frustration over illegal immigration, said Tuesday that the federal government's detention and deportation system must be fundamentally restructured. "We have decided to stand back and take a look at how we address the problem and solve it once and for all," Chertoff said during a breakfast meeting with reporters. The NEW YORK TIMES is planning a front page placement for the Chertoff comments on Wednesday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The unusually blunt assessment by the nation's top immigration...

The calls were coming thick and fast to a local news station. Callers claimed that a brilliant light had appeared in the night sky moments before. It hovered for a minute and then suddenly shot off at incredible speed. What was it? Some callers were certain they had the answer: a UFO -- an Unidentified Flying Object. Well, maybe it was . . . for about five minutes. After that, it would probably be an identified flying object: a comet, perhaps, or a satellite. In his book, LIGHTS IN THE SKY AND LITTLE GREEN MEN, astronomer Hugh Ross writes that...