Leader of the Georgian Dream coalition and the candidate of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says he would nominate Vakhtang Khmaladze as the candidate of president of Georgia if elections were held now. Ivanishvili made this statement after presenting the candidates of the ministers today. He said...
Prime Minister of Georgia Vano Merabishvili met with the Minister of Finance, Aleksandre Khetaguri to discuss the parameters of the state treasury. PM and the Finance Minister discussed in details of funds in the state budget, index of inflation and the project of the budget of the next year. Finance...
Leader of the Georgian Dream coalition and the future Prime Minister of Georgia has nominated the composition of the new cabinet today. The list of the ministers looks as follows: Defense Minister and vice prime minister - Irakli Alasania; Minister of Internal Affairs - Irakli Gharibashvili; Penitentiary...
One of the leaders of the Christian Democratic Movement, Inga Grigolia, who lifted her majoritarian MP candidate a few days before the parliamentary elections, now plans to defect from the Tbilisi Sakrebulo (Tbilisi self-government). Grigolia will submit corresponding statement to the chairperson of...
PARIS (Reuters) - Andre-Pierre Gignac scored twice to help Olympique Marseille retain their Ligue 1 top spot on Sunday with a 2-2 home draw to second-placed Paris St Germain despite the best efforts of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Ibrahimovic was on target two times in three minutes midway through an entertaining...
MILAN (Reuters) - Inter struck in the third minute with a Walter Samuel header and hung on despite playing nearly all the second half with 10 men to beat AC Milan 1-0 in a bad-tempered, scrappy but absorbing Serie A derby on Sunday. Samuel scored with a diving header at the far post after Milan goalkeeper...
MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid came away with a deserved point but failed to secure the victory they needed to trim the gap to leaders Barcelona when the outstanding Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo each struck twice in an attritional 2-2 draw in La Liga on Sunday. A stuttering start by Jose Mourinho's...
There has been another mortar strike from Syria in the border town of Akcakale. This time, no one was hurt. But according to witnesses, a short time later eight artillery shells were heard being fired in retaliation. Ankara has vowed to retaliate against the shelling. Turkey's parliament has approved...
There has been another mortar strike from Syria in the border town of Akcakale. This time, no one was hurt. But according to witnesses, a short time later eight artillery shells were heard being fired in retaliation. Ankara has vowed to retaliate against the shelling. Turkey's parliament has approved...
Jubilant Hugo Chavez supporters waved flags and partied in the streets of Caracas when they heard the result of Venezuela's presidential election. Socialist Chavez has been re-elected for a fourth term in office in what has been described as the tightest presidential poll for the last ten years....
Turkey's military has returned fire across the border after Syrian shells again landed on Turkish soil, Turkish television channels say and the state-run Anatolian news agency reported the governor of Hatay province as saying on Friday. The shells incident happened in southern Turkey at Hatay...
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II congratulated Bidzina Ivanishvili, Leader of Georgian Dream coalition on victory in the 2012 parliamentary elections. Ivanishvili arrived at Georgia's Patriarchate. Ilia II gave him the icon of Holy Trinity as a present. Ivanishvili...
The vote counting process is over at the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC). Results of the 2012 parliamentary elections held on October 1 in Georgia are available as per all 3, 766 polling stations, and are as follows: 1. Bidzina Ivanishvili - Georgian Dream (41) - 54. 85 % 2. United National...
Consultations are being held at Business Center of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Leader of Georgian Dream coalition over staffing of new government of Georgia. The consultations will last till Monday when Ivanishvili is planned to name candidacies of members of new Cabinet of Ministers.
Eighteen Chinese children missing after a landslide buried their primary school have died, officials have confirmed, - BBC reported. Rescuers found the body of the last missing child early on Friday, state media reported. A missing adult has also been found dead, bringing the death toll to 19,...
