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 EU Report: Georgia Started War 

But Russia broke international law, militia committed genocide

Sep 30, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia was responsible for triggering last summer’s war with Russia, a European Union investigation has concluded. But Russia was far from blameless, laying the foundation for the war and breaking international law by invading. The report, which was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, also accuses Russian-backed South... More »

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Russia • genocide • European Union • Georgia • war • invasion • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Poland Marks 
 70th Anniversary 
 of WWII's Start 

Leaders gather at Polish fort where Nazis launched blitzkreig

Sep 1, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polish leaders gathered at dawn today at the fort the Nazis attacked to begin World War II exactly 70 years ago, the BBC reports. A German battleship attacked Westerplatte on September 1, 1939, as German troops launched a blitzkreig attack on three fronts. The invasion triggered declarations of war from... More »

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Germany • Poland • Nazi • World War II • invasion

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

book excerpt

 Hitler Sent Troops 
 to Russia's Frozen Hell 

Unprepared troops suffered 'horrific' consequences

Jul 26, 09 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Adolf Hitler sent his troops to invade Russia, he gave little thought to their warmth—leaving them in “desperate need” of millions of hats, gloves, and coats, writes historian Andrew Roberts in a Daily Telegraph book excerpt. “One can't put any trust in the meteorological forecasts,”... More »

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Russia • Adolf Hitler • history • invasion • Nazis

(Newser) - The 4,000 US Marines who invaded the Helmand Province in Afghanistan this week might feel at home—the US helped build it, the Christian Science Monitor reports. In a Cold War race against the Soviets, Washington lavished more than $110 million on irrigating land, constructing schools, and building the... More »

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development • Helmand province • invasion • Afghanistan war • Marines

 Town Cranks 
 Stones, Zeppelin 
 to Fight Crickets 

Up to mile-long swarms invade village regularly

Apr 24, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tiny Nevada town faces a yearly menace next month in the form of legions of crickets that can be a mile long and two miles across. Among the more unusual tools in their arsenal: rock music. Residents of Tuscarora swear it works, or at least helps, and are getting... More »

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Rolling Stones • Led Zeppelin • rock • heavy metal • invasion • crickets • Mormon crickets

 Aussie Dad Wrestles 
 'Roo Invader 

Creature burst in to bedroom before underwear-clad man got it out

Mar 9, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Waking up can be a bear, but for one Aussie family it was an 88-pound kangaroo crashing through their bedroom window and hopping around on a bloody rampage until the skivvies-clad dad wrestled it out of the house, the Canberra Times reports. “My initial thought when I was half... More »

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Australia • family • house • kangaroo • invasion

 Looted Iraq Museum 
 Partially Reopens 

PM backs controversial move; much of building still shut

Feb 24, 09 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Iraq’s National Museum reopened yesterday for the first time since its 2003 looting made it a symbol of post-invasion bedlam, the New York Times reports. But with only eight of 26 rooms functional, its reopening symbolizes as much the long road ahead as it does Iraqi reconstruction thus far,... More »

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Iraq • Nouri al-Maliki • museum • looting • Iraq war • invasion

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction, but America made such a strong case that even the Iraqi leader himself had doubts, the Washington Post reports. Saddam, apparently in awe of US intelligence, asked his top commanders if the nation had stashes even he didn't know about. So says... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Russia • CIA • Vladimir Putin • Colin Powell • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war • invasion • Charles Duelfer

 Israel Grants 3-Hour Reprieve 

Mulls international ceasefire

Jan 7, 09 6:34 AM CST
(AP) - Israel's military paused its Gaza offensive for three hours today to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country's leaders debated whether to accept an international ceasefire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. More than 500 aid trucks have entered Gaza since operations began, but military... More »

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Israel • Gaza • aid • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • invasion

OPINION

 'The Israelis Killed My Father' 


Jan 5, 09 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Fares Akram’s family farm was a small “beloved place,” so close to the Israeli border that they’d always feared it would be hit by errant rockets launched by Hamas, he writes in the Independent. Instead, it was blown up by an Israeli bomb while Akram’s... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • invasion

UK's Ex-Chief Justice Rips Into Iraq Invasion

Newly retired judge lambastes US, UK 
as 'vigilantes'

Nov 18, 08 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - One of Britain's most respected judges struck out last night against the invasion of Iraq, which he declared illegal and worthy of a "world vigilante." Thomas Bingham, who held the UK's equivalent post to chief justice, used his first speech since retirement to decry "a serious... More »

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United Kingdom • House of Lords • Lord Goldsmith • Iraq war • invasion

 Georgia: Russian Spy 
 Plane Downed 

Moscow denies sending camera-equipped drone

Sep 23, 08 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia says it shot down a Russian military drone yesterday just south of South Ossetia, the Moscow-backed breakaway province. Moscow officials deny the charge and have called the episode "the latest media provocation" by Georgia to "destabilize the situation," Reuters reports. More »

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Russia • European Union • Georgia • spycraft • invasion

 Cheney Set
 to Visit
 Georgia

VP to shore up ties with embattled nation, emphasize 'common security interests'

Aug 25, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week to strengthen ties with the battered US ally, the AP reports. The vice president will also visit Azerbaijan and Ukraine to emphasize the US commitment to the former Soviet republics, a White House spokesman said today in announcing the trip, which is to... More »

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Russia • Dick Cheney • Georgia • Azerbaijan • Ukraine • sovereignty • invasion

analysis

Post-Soviet States No Longer Russian Puppets

Reactions to Georgia show self-interest

Aug 22, 08 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former cold warriors can be expected to see the Georgian conflict as signalling a return to simpler East-vs-West geopolitics, writes Bridget Kendall for the BBC. But the reaction of the post-Soviet states shows something very different: Former Soviet client states whose loyalty was assured 20 years ago—including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,... More »

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Russia • NATO • Georgia • Ukraine • sovereignty • Belarus • invasion

OPINION

 Gorbachev: Blame Georgia

Former Soviet leader blasts one-sided America coverage

Aug 20, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - It is important to remember that Georgia, not Russia, struck first in the conflict over South Ossetia, writes former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for the New York Times. Russian leadership is strong domestically and did not need a victory to rally support—rather, Moscow “was dragged into the fray... More »

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Russia • Georgia • war • Mikhail Gorbachev • attack • Mikheil Saakashvili • invasion

 Bush Sends Aid, Rice to Georgia

Role of Russian military in Georgia unclear

Aug 13, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Russia • Georgia • war • Russian military • tanks • Mikheil Saakashvili • invasion • Gori

UPDATED

 Russia Opens
 Second Front
 in Georgia


Aug 11, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(AP) - Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia today, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a military base and police stations in the country's west, officials told the AP. Meanwhile, the US State Department evacuated more than 170 American civilians to Armenia. The new forays into... More »

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Russia • State Department • Georgia • invasion • South Ossetia

Going It Alone, Georgians Fume at US Inaction

Pro-Western country expected more than feeble diplomacy

Aug 11, 08 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - As a haggard group of soldiers clambered into the flatbed truck, vacantly clutching Kalishnikovs, one explained the cause of their despair: “America and the European Union are spitting on us.” It’s an exceedingly popular sentiment in Georgia, the New York Times reports. The fiercely pro-Western nation... More »

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Russia • Georgia • United States • alliance • invasion

Analysis

Russia-Georgia Conflict
Was Waiting to Happen

Taunting a bullying bear lands Caucus state in trouble

Aug 9, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russia’s invasion of Georgia should surprise no one: In hindsight, it's even "absurdly over-determined,” James Traub writes in the New York Times. Russia has an  economic interest in Georgian instability and a deep Cold War mindset that could not accept Georgia’s pro-Western path. For its... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • former Soviet state • invasion • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

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