But that Christmas shopping season Wal-Mart slashed prices on toys, flat-screen televisions and other electronics as it warred with Target and Costco.

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Last year the Belarusian president refused to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two breakaway Georgian territories over which Russia had warred with Georgia.

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