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An Armenian passenger plane crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia\'s Black Sea coast as it was headed in for a landing, killing all 113 people on board, emergency officials said. The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia, disappeared from radar screens about four miles from the shore and crashed after making a turn toward the Adler airport near the southern Russian city of Sochi, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. Rescue officials in the ministry\'s southern regional branch said all 113 people aboard the plane, including six children, were killed.

By empty (5/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgian leaders are being \"childish\" when they threaten to withdraw from the CIS in retaliation for Russia\'s ban on Georgian wine imports, Salome Zourabichvili, leader of the Path of Georgia party and former Georgian foreign minister, told journalists on Wednesday. \"We will quit the CIS in retaliation for your embargo on our wine. It is a childish approach and immature behavior which we need to get rid of,\" she said.

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Iran is considering the possibility of creating a uranium enrichment consortium with Japan, Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has said. “We shall be prepared to join a consortium with Japan or any other country under the control (of the International Atomic Energy Agency) for uranium enrichment,” the chief Iranian diplomat said. (Itar-Tass).