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Rebels to release Russian airmen

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Russian government has reached an agreement with the Angolan rebel movement UNITA paving the way for the release of six Russian airmen taken prisoner last year after their aircraft was shot down in northern Angola, news reports said on Tuesday.

    In a dispatch from Moscow, the Russian RIA-Novosti news agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying an agreement had been reached with UNITA officials in Europe for the release of the men to a third country. The report said that the timing and location of their release was being kept secret "in the interests of security".

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