Security forces free Russian hostages in Sudan

MOSCOW/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Russians held hostage in the Sudanese region of Darfur were freed in an operation by security forces on Friday and their captors taken prisoner, Sudanese authorities said on Saturday. "The kidnappers and their equipment are under our control," Lieutenant General Taj al-Sir Othman, a senior officer in Sudan's security agency, told reporters at Khartoum airport where the hostages, employees of airline UTair, were flown after their liberation. Russia's Ambassador to