Georgia's parliament has declared a "state of war" following days of fighting in its breakaway region of South Ossetia.
The announcement comes as Russia deployed further troops to support the rebels in South Ossetia and Russian fighter jets bombed Georgian positions and the town of Gori. Speaking from Fighting in South Ossetia kills at least 3 ...
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S. Korean president calls for new talks ... Bejing, US President George W. Bush said Russian attacks on Georgia outside South Ossetia marked a "dangerous escalation" of the crisis and urged Moscow to halt the bombing immediately. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Bush via telephone that a pullout of Georgian troops from the conflict zone was the only solution to the South Ossetian crisis which has reportedly claimed the lives of an estimated 2,000 people since Friday. Meanwhile fighting appears to be spreading to Abkhazia, another Georgian breakaway region in the west of the country. Russian-backed separatists there say they have launched a military operation against Georgian forces in the disputed Kodori gorge.
(Deutsche Welle)
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