The US strongly criticises Russian military action against Georgia, in the bitter conflict over South Ossetia, amid reports that Moscow has bombed more targets inside Georgian territory.
The ruling coalition has vowed to move forward with an impeachment process against the president. Even some of the unpopular leader's allies are urging him to quit.
The maneuver suggested that Russia?s aims had gone beyond securing the enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to weakening the armed forces of Georgia.
AP - President Bush on Monday sharply criticized Moscow's harsh military crackdown in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying the violence is unacceptable and Russia's response is disproportionate.
AP - Russia and Georgia clashed on land and at sea Sunday despite a Georgian cease-fire offer and claim of withdrawal from the separatist province of South Ossetia, officials from both countries said.
AP - The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi — home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency — as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.
President Bush condemned the violence between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia as "unacceptable" on Sunday, while Vice President Dick Cheney said aggression against Georgia "must not go unanswered." Bush was filmed speaking to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the Olympic opening ceremonies and said Sunday that he was "firm" with Putin.
Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the film "Shaft," has died, say sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee. Hayes gained new fans late in his career by voicing "Chef" for the animated series "South Park."
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