WASHINGTON, Sept.

Abkhazia, taking advantage of Georgian troops fighting in South Ossetia, seized the Kodori Gorge region, the Georgian province's deputy defense minister said.

By Christopher Torchia and Matti Friedman OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia - A Russian military convoy defied a cease- fire agreement Wednesday and rolled through a strategically important city in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which claimed fresh looting and bombing by the Russians and their allies.

By Christopher Torchia; Matti Friedman OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia - Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape.

As the world sees it ... *Russia's brazen blitzkrieg-syle military attacks on the independent and democratic state of Georgia warrant worldwide condemnation, and much more.