Almost all passengers and crew on board a packed plane bound for a popular European tourist destination are reported to have died after it burst into flames on takeoff in Spain. All but about 25 of the 173 people on board flight JK5022 were killed after the aircraft swerved off of a runway and crashed at [...]

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, has said he will resign from his position, following months of pressure form the country’s civilian government. The move, which came in a televised address to the nation on Monday, is intended to help him avoid impeachment charges drawn up by the ruling coalition. “After consultations with my legal advisers and close political [...]

George Bush, the United States president, has said he is sending US military aircraft and naval forces with humanitarian supplies to Georgia. Speaking from the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Bush said: “Russia must keep its word and act to end this crisis.” He said: “The United States of America stands with [...]

Russian military vehicles have been heading towards the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, Al Jazeera has confirmed. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher tailed a convoy of Russian armoured vehicles  on the road from the town of Gori, less than 60km from Tbilisi on Wednesday. “Right in front me, no more than 100 metres away is an armoured personnel carrier [...]

Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, has told tens of thousands of people at a rally outside the country’s parliament that Georgia will quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and urged Ukraine to follow suit. The president said: “We have taken a decision, Georgia is quitting the CIS.” The CIS is an alliance consisting of ten former Soviet [...]

El presidente de Rusia, Dmitri Medvedev, anunció la decisión de poner fin a la operación militar para “imponer la paz” a Georgia. Pero afirmó que para resolver definitivamente el conflicto en torno a la región separatista georgiana de Osetia del Sur es necesario que se firme un acuerdo jurídicamente vinculante en el que las partes [...]

Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, has spoken of the “cold-blooded, pre-meditated, murder” of his country and said that there would be “no surrender” to Russian aggression. Appealing to the international community to step in to resolve fighting over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, he said: “The world has a moral duty to stop the madness.” Saakashvili made [...]

Russian tanks and troops moved through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advanced on the city of Gori in central Georgia on Sunday night, for the first time directly assaulting a Georgian city with ground forces after three days of heavy fighting, Georgian officials said. Georgian tanks were dug into positions outside Gori and planning [...]

The leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has decreed a “state of war” in areas close to Georgian-controlled territory, Russia’s Interfax news agency said. The move, announced on Sunday, comes after Russian forces took control of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia’s other breakaway region. “By a decree of Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh, a [...]

The White House warned Russia on Sunday that military escalation in the Georgia conflict could have a “significant, long-term impact” on relations between Washington and Moscow. U.S. President George W. Bush’s deputy national security adviser, James Jeffrey, said it will be key to see the Russian reaction to the withdrawal of Georgian forces from the South [...]