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Banker Predicted Georgian Invasion 2 Days Early

(Newser) - An investment banker in Kiev predicted the Georgian conflict two days before it occurred, Reuters reports. "So whaddaya think?,” Geoff Smith wrote on Aug. 5 to a fellow strategist at Renaissance Capital. “I say Saakashvili is going to 'restore the territorial integrity of Georgia' five minutes before...

Bush Sends Aid, Rice to Georgia
 Bush Sends Aid, Rice to Georgia
Aug 13, 2008 2:53 PM CDT

Bush Sends Aid, Rice to Georgia

Role of Russian military in Georgia unclear

(Newser) - President Bush announced that the US would send humanitarian aid into Georgia today as hostilities threatened to overwhelm the fragile peace agreement, the New York Times reports. In announcing that he was dispatching Condoleezza Rice to mediate the dispute, Bush said that the US “stands with the democratically elected...

Russia Agrees to Withdrawal Plan
 Russia Agrees to
 Withdrawal Plan
Aug 12, 2008 11:15 AM CDT

Russia Agrees to Withdrawal Plan

Sarkozy will present deal to Georgia

(Newser) - The Russian and French presidents negotiated conditions today for ending fighting in Georgia, endorsing a plan that calls for both Russian and Georgian troops to move back to their initial positions. The plan endorsed by Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy calls on Russia and Georgia to end all hostilities and...

War Highlights McCain's Stance on Russia

Candidate has taken a hard line, calling for increased isolation

(Newser) - The past several days of intense combat in Georgia have underscored John McCain’s longrunning hardline stance against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the New York Times reports. In an aspect of the candidate's track record that has received relatively little attention, McCain has called for Russia’s expulsion from the...

Bush Warns Russia to Pull Back in Georgia

Kremlin may have planned and instigated war, US official says

(Newser) - President Bush on Monday demanded that Russia end a "dramatic and brutal escalation" of violence in Georgia, agree to an immediate cease-fire and accept international mediation to end the crisis in the former Soviet republic. "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected...

Georgia's Outgunned Leader Keeps the Faith

'We cannot compete' with Russia, but don't forget: 'Finland fought this kind of war in 1939'

(Newser) - After 5 years of risky political brinksmanship with Russia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili now finds himself in the fight of his life, the Wall Street Journal reports. The pro-Western leader says he has no regrets about his tactics, which seem finally to have set off long-simmering tensions between his state...

Russian Onslaught Hikes War Fears

US condemns Russia's 'disproportionate' action in Georgian territory

(Newser) - Fears of a full-scale war continued to mount today as Russian forces kept up attacks even as Georgian troops pulled out of the battlefield at South Ossetia, reports the New York Times. Russia landed ground troops at a second disputed territory, Abkhazia, and broadened its aerial assaults to the airport...

Georgia Conflict Offers a Test for US Candidates

Obama urges calm; McCain takes harder line on Russia

(Newser) - The conflict between Russia and Georgia provided one of the first real tests of how the presidential candidates would respond to that infamous 3 a.m. phone call about a world crisis, Politico notes. The upshot: Barack Obama echoed the international consensus, George Bush included, by calling for calm and...

Worldwide War Tally Triples in New Study

Conflicts killed 5.4M people over past 50 years, researchers say

(Newser) - Wars have killed three times more people over the past 50 years than once thought, a new study says. Researchers in Boston, using a new method to estimate fatalities, say that 5.4 million people died due to war between 1955 and 2002. "It's important that there's an awareness...

My Veterans Are Anxious to Fight, Mugabe Says

Zimbabwe was won by force, shouldn't be surrendered by vote, they say

(Newser) - Veterans of Zimbabwe’s war of independence are eager to fight in support of the ruling party, says President Robert Mugabe. “They came to my office after the election and asked me, ‘Can we take up arms?’” Mugabe told the state-run newspaper. “They said this country...

Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image
 Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image 
Jun 11, 2008 8:22 AM CDT

Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image

'I could have used different rhetoric' prez says on farewell swing

(Newser) - Looking back on his years in office, President Bush admitted yesterday he regrets using phrases like "bring 'em on,” and “dead or alive,” which “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace." In "retrospect I could have used...

My Lai Massacre, 40 Years On
 My Lai Massacre, 40 Years On  
Mar 16, 2008 1:40 PM CDT

My Lai Massacre, 40 Years On

Survivors, vets among 1,000 who gather in Vietnam to remember

(Newser) - More than 1,000 people gathered in My Lai today to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the most brutal chapters in the Vietnam War, the AP reports. Forty years ago, American troops entered the small village in search of Vietcong guerrillas and, unprovoked, slaughtered more than 500 people—...

Prince Harry Should Have Stayed
Prince Harry Should Have Stayed
OPINION
Mar 12, 2008 9:11 AM CDT

Prince Harry Should Have Stayed

Christopher Hitchens asks what threat he posed others

(Newser) - When Matt Drudge revealed to the world Prince Harry was in Afghanistan, there he should have stayed, writes Christopher Hitchens for Slate. It's "piffle" to think that his royal highness was a "bullet magnet" in Helmand province, already one of the most dangerous places on Earth for any...

45K Dying Each Month in Congo
45K Dying Each Month in Congo
Jan 23, 2008 2:34 PM CST

45K Dying Each Month in Congo

Civil war's over, but disease, malnutrition keep killing

(Newser) - The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo officially ended in 2002, but it's still killing 45,000 people a month, a new study concludes.  Malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition caused by 10 years of conflict—not to mention continuing armed skirmishes in the east—have left 5....

British PM Gives Troops Surprise Visit

Vows Basra pullout in 2 weeks; mum on link to kidnappings

(Newser) - UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown surprised his troops with a visit in Iraq today and declared that Britain will cede control of Basra within two weeks, the Times of London reports. He told 300 soldiers that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki had advised the quick pull-out "so Iraq can...

Uncle Sam Wants You (But He'll Talk to Mom First)

New bonuses offer help on mortgages, business startups

(Newser) - Army recruiters will soon promise recruits hefty bonuses to buy a home or start a business in a bid to sway their parents that enlisting is a good investment, the Wall Street Journal reports. "We know most 18-year-old kids don't think about mortgages yet," says a Pentagon official....

Iran Prez: Go Ahead Make My Day
Iran Prez:
Go Ahead
Make My Day
Nov 18, 2007 2:38 PM CST

Iran Prez: Go Ahead Make My Day

We're ready for a US attack, warns Ahmadinejad

(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday warned that his nation is fully prepared to respond if attacked, but downplayed the possibility of a war with the US. "We have made all preparations, and if there is any suspicion, then we are ready," he said during a visit to Bahrain....

Photographer Haunted by Iraq Death
Photographer Haunted by Iraq Death
Nov 4, 2007 7:31 AM CST

Photographer Haunted by Iraq Death

Did a soldier die so he could get a picture, he wonders in talk about book

(Newser) - Photographer Ashley Gilbertson tried to be as emotionally removed as possible while working in Iraq, but once he let soldiers protect him as he ran to get a close-up. There was a shot, Gilbertson felt blood; one of the men protecting him was killed. It's something he has deeply regretted...

Rapes Shatter Congo Women
Rapes Shatter Congo Women
Oct 7, 2007 1:20 PM CDT

Rapes Shatter Congo Women

27,000 attacks in a single province intended to 'destroy women'

(Newser) - A record number of brutal rapes has devastated the women of war-ravaged Congo. A single province reported 27,000 last year, with some assaults so brutal that victims' reproductive systems will never recover, the New York Times reports. "We don’t know why these rapes are happening, but one...

Big Families Win Wars
Big Families
Win Wars
Oct 6, 2007 8:55 AM CDT

Big Families Win Wars

Professor links countries' military strength to number of 'superfluous sons'

(Newser) - A nation’s military strength may be rooted in its average family size, says a popular German professor, putting Islamic countries in a good position, America on neutral ground, and Europe in dire straits. Bigger families mean “more superfluous sons to burn on the battlefield,” argues Gunnar Heinsohn....

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