Bush calls for cease fire as Georgia conflict widens

(Prat Thakkar, NECN) - President Bush called the escalating conflict between Georgia and Russia unacceptable, and pushed for a cease fire. The fighting which began in the province of South Ossetia spread to a second province. Things have gotten so bad that the U.S. State Department has evacuated 170 Americans stuck in Georgia. Scores of Russian troops, with tanks and rocket launchers streamed through the Georgian breakaway province of Abkhazia Monday, as Moscow opened up a second battle front in a widening conflict with neighboring Georgia. read more

NECN | August 12, 2008