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Thu 08 Aug 2008Georgia fighting resumes despite talks offer
Georgian forces and separatists in breakaway South Ossetia broke a ceasefire just hours after the two sides had agreed to talks tomorrow.
"Separatists opened fire at the two Georgian villages of Prisi and Tamarasheni, and we had to return fire," the secretary of the Georgian National Security Council Kakha Lomaia said.
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