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Deal may let Russia to push into GeorgiaTBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The agreement aimed at restoring calm in Georgia may have given Russia an opening to occupy Georgia under the guise of peacekeeping, European officials say.Moscow demanded the cease-fire agreement brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy include language allowing Russian troops to act in a peacekeeping role until an ...

Student uniforms (The Gleaner)

Opinion: Warrick group takes a timely look at uniforms.

On the border: Georgian troops retreat, civilians flee as Russian Army advances (Times Online)

Georgian troops were retreating under shellfire here today as the Russian military continued to press forward and take full control of South Ossetia. Clouds of smoke rose up as artillery fire exploded in fields less than half a mile from the bridge marking South Ossetia’s border with Georgia.

Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)

As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they ...

Mark Easton (BBC News)

Must we accept the war on drugs is unwinnable?