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By Matt Robinson
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia called for international intervention on Monday and pulled its battered forces back to the capital, as Russian troops pushed deep into its territory, ignoring Western pleas to halt.
“The Georgian army is retreating to defend the capital. The Government is urgently seeking international intervention to prevent the fall of Georgia,” […]
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Russian forces have entered Georgia from the breakaway region of Abkhazia, as the conflict between the two neighbours appears to be broadening.
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The reported capture of the key Georgian city of Gori and the towns of Senaki, Zugdidi and Kurga came despite a top Russian general’s claim earlier Monday that Russia had no plans to enter Georgian territory. By taking Gori, which sits on Georgia’s only east-west highway, Russia can cut off eastern Georgia from the country’s […]
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John Edwards faced fresh questions last night about his adulterous affair with a blonde film-maker, including how much he knew about thousands of dollars paid to her after she became pregnant last year.
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GEORGIA‘S
attempt to seize control of the secessionist South
Ossetia region has been a gamble too far, reckless in its timing and
founded on a fundamental misjudgment.
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BOLSHIYE KOTY, Russia (Aug. 10) - The world’s oldest, deepest and biggest freshwater lake is growing warmer, dirtier and more crowded.
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A promising A-level student was today fighting for life in hospital after he was savagely attacked in the street.
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HANOI - Deadly floods and landslides from a tropical storm that pounded Vietnam over the weekend have claimed at least 101 lives and left 50 others missing, officials said today.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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Today the conflict between Russia and Georgia is widening as Russia bombs closer to the capital of Tbilisi. Just a couple of hours ago, I received an e-mail being sent around by Luka Adikashvili, a 19-year-old student and rock guitarist in Tbilisi. He writes:
“Three days ago, Georgian armed forces started an operation aiming to regain […]
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More than a comma, less than a period; a dash with a college education. Sometimes it seems just right; sometimes is seems like
a crutch; sometimes it seems pretentious; sometimes it seems that another form of punctuation would actually be better.
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9:06am UK, Monday August 11, 2008
Russia has accused Georgia of shelling the capital of South Ossetia, killing three of its peacekeepers, while Georgia says Russian jets are mounting bombing raids deep inside its borders.
South Ossetian military man holds a child in the troubled province
Georgian reports claimed that more than 50 Russian bombers had carried out […]
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Last month we asked you to pick your favourite Madonna song of all-time - no easy decision, seeing as you had a whopping 63 UK chart singles to choose from. Voting has closed, the results have been totted up and we can now reveal your top ten, a list that spans nearly 25 years of […]
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Opec nations earned as much in the first half of this year as they did in the whole of 2007 - ” thanks both to record oil prices and record production - ” triggering a big increase in its spending.
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Russia battled Georgian forces on land and sea, reports said late Sunday, despite a Georgian cease-fire offer and its claim to be withdrawing from South Ossetia, the separatist Georgian province battered by days of intense fighting.
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Sacramento – Today is Day 30 of the budget impasse and without a deal in sight, it looks like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will likely follow through with his promise to sign an executive order Thursday to slash state worker pay to minimum wage and layoff thousands of workers.
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A “government is using the ‘terrorist threat’ as an excuse to strengthen its power.” Hmm… Where have we heard that one before? But coming from a government that already had a pretty firm grip on what the people of the country it is pledged to serve can say or read, on where they may go, […]
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GORI, Georgia, Aug. 9 — Russian strategic bombers and jet fighter planes pounded targets in many parts of Georgia on Saturday, hitting apartment buildings and economic installations, as well as military targets in an escalating war that is killing more and more civilians and confounding international efforts to secure a cease-fire.
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BEIJING, Aug 8 — Hours before the first performers began entertaining the crowd Friday, a doctor from Sichuan province sat on the curb outside the iconic Bird’s Nest stadium with his 7-year-old son, waiting to go in. He had no water, no umbrella, to protect him from the sun; those had been banned for security […]