London, Aug. 13: The United States has cancelled a joint naval exercise with Russia after U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow that it's attacks on Georgia have jeopardised its integration into international institutions.
The cancellation of the military exercise, set for next week, is the first concrete disapproval from Washington over Russia's military operations in Georgia and South Ossetia.
"I can assure you that Russia's international reputation and what role Russia can play in the international community is very much at stake here," The Times quoted Rice, as saying.
Tel Aviv - An Israeli correspondent who was severely injured in Tuesday's Russian bombardment in the Georgian city of Gori was flown to Israel, his newspaper said Wednesday.
Journalist Zadok Yehezkeli, of Israel's biggest-selling Yediot Ahronot daily, was hit by shrapnel in the shoulder and chest in the same incident in Gori's main town square in which Dutch cameraman Stan Storiman was killed.
Another Dutch and a Greek journalist as well as three local civilians had also been injured, Yediot said. The daily said a single mortar shell had hit a crowd of journalists and civilians at the square had gathered around noon on the site of a minor car accident that had happened previously.
Moscow/Tbilisi - The political players in the recently halted Ossetia war on Wednesday were scrambling for tactical advantages in ongoing ceasefire talks.
The de facto ceasefire held over its first night, with no violations reported by either side. Fighting in the six-day conflict ended shortly after midday Tuesday. Aside from Georgian reports of a pair of Russian airstrikes after that time, combat appeared halted throughout the region.
In Washington, President George W Bush's administration was contemplating ways to punish Russia for the military assault on the pro-Western Georgian government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, and was focusing on ways to get humanitarian aid to the Georgian population.
Vilnius - Standing by in Georgia would mean following the scenario that allowed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to conquer Europe, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said on Tuesday.
"We cannot allow a second Munich," Adamkus said, referring to the Munich Conference in 1938 when France, Great Britain and Italy permitted annexation of part of Czechoslovakia.
"Then, countries appeased Hitler and it led to World War II, to a colossal tragedy and millions of lost human lives," he told Lithuanian radio.
Washington, Aug. 12 : Calling Russia’s actions in Georgia "unacceptable", U. S. President George Bush has warned Moscow that it is in danger of jeopardizing its relations with Washington.
The warning came as fighting continues to rage in South Ossetia and Russia rejecting Georgia''s latest ceasefire proposal.
Vilnius - Standing by in Georgia would mean following the scenario that allowed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to conquer Europe, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said on Tuesday.
Washington, Aug. 12 : Calling Russia’s actions in Georgia "unacceptable", U. S. President George Bush has warned Moscow that it is in danger of jeopardizing its relations with Washington.
