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Ingushetia rebel leader captured
MOSCOW – Russia says it has captured an insurgent ringleader responsible for hundreds of deaths in its troubled North Caucasus region, where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency.
Quoting the FSB security services, Russian state television said that Ali Taziyev, from Ingushetia province, was one of the leaders of an envisaged Caucasus emirate, which seeks to create a state under sharia law independent from Russia.
Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB security services, said Taziyev was behind the 2004 seizure of the interior ministry building in Ingushetia, in which at least 92 people were killed. – (Reuters)
‘The Lacuna’ wins Orange book prize
LONDON – US author Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna, chosen from a shortlist of books by six women writers that included Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Daisy Goodwin, chair of the judges, praised The Lacuna's"breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy".
It wasn’t a unanimous decision in the sense that we all said this was the winner, but I think it was fashionably consensual in that we all listened to each other’s point of view. We decided to go for the book which aroused the most passion in the most people rather than settle for everyone’s second choice. – (Reuters)