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...said the charges were politically motivated. He is co-leader of the opposition Truth and Justice Alliance, which is nudging ahead of the government in opinion polls in the run-up to November's legislative and presidential elections. Separatist Strains GEORGIA Firefights between government forces and separatists in the breakaway province of South Ossetia claimed at least three lives and wounded more than 60 before representatives from Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Russian region of North Ossetia brokered a cease-fire. The Georgian parliament passed a resolution demanding that Russian peacekeepers deployed in South...
...Meanwhile, a parliamentary commission set up to investigate the bombings adjourned for its summer break. The panel will reconvene on Sept. 7. Departing From Script MOLDOVA The government issued sanctions against the breakaway region of Trans-Dniestr after authorities in the enclave shut schools teaching in Latin script. Russian-speaking Trans-Dniestr wants schools to switch to Cyrillic, the script used during Soviet rule. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the E.U. denounced the separatists' move, with Brussels threatening its own sanctions unless the closures are reversed. Terror Returns UZBEKISTAN Coordinated suicide bombings struck the capital, Tashkent...
...recent resolution backing the transfer of authority on June 30. In response Talabani and Barzani warned the U.S. that unless the interim constitution is upheld, the Kurds will boycott the January election and effectively walk away from the new Iraq. Easier said than done, of course - preventing a Kurdish breakaway is a priority that unites such traditional rivals as Turkey, Syria and Iran, each of them fearing for the consequences among their own Kurdish minorities. The Turks may be tempted to take military measures to prevent...
...hours of Deuba's appointment, Nepal's political leaders reverted to their usual bickering. The nation's communist parties, disappointed that their candidate hadn't been tapped for the top job, waffled over whether to support Deuba's government. And Nepal's Congress Party (of which Deuba heads a breakaway faction) refused to cooperate with the new Prime Minister, with one leader even vowing to continue antigovernment protests...
...hear Vladimir Putin tell it, he learned something about Chechnya last week. After a surprise helicopter tour of the breakaway republic, the Russian President returned to Moscow and informed his Cabinet that the capital, Grozny, looked "horrible." He apparently didn't mention that it looks that way because the Russian military has periodically pounded it with bombs and artillery shells as part of the Kremlin's campaign to quell a separatist uprising in the region. With last week's assassination of Moscow's hand-picked Chechen President, Akhmad Kadyrov, Putin might also have remarked that his strategy for pacifying Chechnya...