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Russia harshly criticized Group of Seven members for their hypocrisy

G7 countries united against Russia and issued a joint statement in which they condemned Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USA and Great Britain said that Russia had violated the territorial integrity in Georgia, as well as the resolution of the UN Security Council regulating relations between Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

“Russia’s decision has called into question its commitment to peace and security in the Caucasus,” the counties’ foreign ministers said in a statement. “We deplore Russia ’s excessive use of military force in Georgia and its continued occupation of parts of Georgia.”

The ministers urged Russia to withdraw its troops from Georgia to the positions Read more »

Ein Feuerwehrmann vor dem brennenden Treibstoff-Zug bei Gori

Ursache war offenbar eine Landmine: Nahe der Stadt Gori ist ein Güterzug in Flammen aufgegangen. Tiflis spricht von Sabotage, Russland weist die Vorwürfe zurück. Derweil spitzt sich der Konflikt zwischen Moskau und Washington zu: Ein US-Zerstörer hat vor der georgischen Küste festgemacht.
Das georgische Fernsehen zeigte dichte Rauchwolken über der Unglücksstelle in der Nähe der Stadt Gori. Die Explosion ereignete sich unweit eines aufgegebenen Militärstützpunkts der georgischen Armee. Rettungskräften gelang es, 19 Waggons von den Schienen zu heben, um weitere Explosionen und eine Ausbreitung des Feuers zu verhindern. Menschen seien nicht zu Schaden gekommen, sagte ein Sprecher des Innenministeriums in Tiflis. Die russische Armee hatte Gori am Freitag Read more »

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The exact cause of the crash is unknown

Spanish and German officials have begun an investigation that seeks to explain a tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of at least 153 people. It was one of Europe’s worst air tragedies in decades.
Of the 162 passengers and 10 crew on board the Spanair jet bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 19 people survived with severe injuries, according to Spain’s Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez.

Two black boxes were found at the crash site and were to be examined Thursday.

Three day’s official mourning have been declared by Madrid’s regional government, while people gathered at the central Plaza de Cibeles square for a minute’s silence at midday on Thursday.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has visited several of the 19 survivors, Read more »

The French president meets his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai

Nicolas Sarkozy made a brief visit to Afghanistan today after the French army’s worst loss of life by enemy attack in a quarter of a century.

The French president spoke to troops from units that lost 10 men in the mountain battle about 30 miles east of Kabul on Monday.

Sarkozy said he had no regrets about sending more troops to the region earlier this year, despite the political firestorm that has broken out in France since Monday’s ambush.

“I have no doubt that we must be here. I am also in shock … but I tell you in good conscience Read more »

Carla Bruni’s call for a “balance between bear and man” has infuriated the anti-bear lobby

Carla Bruni, France’s First Lady, has drawn the wrath of Pyrenean farmers by taking up the cause of local brown bears, whose reintroduction has fuelled a violent feud between naturalists and sheep breeders.

The anti-bear camp dismissed Ms Bruni, a supermodel and pop singer, as a typical animal-loving city slicker after she weighed into the quarrel that has raged since Jacques Chirac, the previous President, moved to rescue the dwindling bear population three years ago.

“It’s annoying to see celebrities sponsoring the bears without understanding the consequences,” Read more »

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, one a complex attack with multiple suicide bombers on an American military base on Monday night, and another by some 100 insurgents on French forces in a district east of the capital, killing 10 French soldiers and wounding 21 others, military officials said Tuesday.

Three American soldiers were wounded and six members of the Afghan special forces in the attack on the base in the eastern province of Khost, bordering Pakistan, the Afghan military spokesman, Gen. Zaher Azimi, said. The battle lasted all night, 10 suicide bombers were killed or blew themselves up, and the insurgents were repulsed without entering the base, he said.

The heavy fighting in the two places is a sharp escalation in insurgent operations in what is already Afghanistan’s deadliest year since the American invasion in 2001. Insurgents have increased their use of roadside bombs and suicide bombs but have also shown a growing sophistication with several well-organized, complex operations employing multiple attackers and different types Read more »

France is constructing a nuclear reactor, its first in 10 years, in Flamanville, but the country already has 58 operating reactors.

FLAMANVILLE, France — It looks like an ordinary building site, but for the two massive, rounded concrete shells looming above the ocean, like dusty mushrooms.
Here on the Normandy coast, France is building its newest nuclear reactor, the first in 10 years, costing $5.1 billion. But already, President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that France will build another like it.

Flamanville is a vivid example of the French choice for nuclear power, made in the late 1950s by Charles de Gaulle, intensified during the oil shocks of the 1970s and maintained despite the nightmarish nuclear accidents of Three Mile Island Read more »