Agence France-Presse August 12, 2008 Washington has little room for maneuver in the Caucasus conflict amid perceptions that it helped fuel the crisis by over-inflating Georgia’s hopes of US support for its young democracy, analysts say. more
US News & World Report August 12, 2008 American blunders fostered the situation, and now the United States will pay a high global price. more
Reuters August 13, 2008 European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle on Wednesday to send monitors to supervise a French-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. more
Times UK August 11, 2008 The United States is set to clash with the British Government over £155 million in state aid given to the Shorts aerospace factory in Belfast. US trade negotiators have told The Times that they are seeking further information from the Government over the reason for the aid. more
New York Times August 10, 2008 As Russian forces massed Sunday on two fronts, Georgians were heading south with whatever they could carry. When they met Western journalists, they all said the same thing: Where is the United States? When is NATO coming? more