Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, best known for his long-standing collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni, has died. Guerra, who scripted more than 100 screenplays, was nominated for three Oscars for his work on Antonioni's Blow Up, Fellini's Amarcord and Casanova 70. "Tonino......
The police siege of a building in the southern French city of Toulouse, where a man suspected of killing seven people is holed up, has entered a second day, - BBC reported. Late on Wednesday gunfire and at least one explosion were heard at the block of flats in the north of the city. Earlier,...
Georgian lawmakers will prepare and send a special appeal to the international community over the issue of the murder of Georgian national 19-years-old Mamuka Kakhishvili in Samara town of Russia. The MPs will meet with the relatives of the boy today and get detailed information about the case. The...
Minister of Sustainable Development and Economics of Georgia Vera Kobalia pays official visit to Great Britain. Georgian Minister holds meetings with the representatives of business and economic sector, introducing the economic capabilities of Georgia to them. Vera Kobalia focused on the enhancement...
A ten year-old boy was assaulted this morning arguably, by a middle-aged man. Eyewitnesses say the boy and two his peers were walking through the square near the school Pesvebi, where a middle-aged man stopped and urged them to open their bags to check what they had in them. Two boys escaped but the...
Russia has appointed president`s special representative to Georgia`s second occupied region of Tskhinvali after doing this in Abkhazia. Medvedev has also appointed his representative in Transdnestria - vice prime minister Dimitri Rogozin has assumed the office. Last week, governor of the Krasnodar...
Georgian lawmakers will discuss the issue of the murder of Georgian national Mamuka Kakhishvili in Samara town of Russia. The MPs will meet with the parents of the boy today and get detailed information about the repeat expertise, which confirmed that the boy was killed. The primary version of the investigation...
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was interviewed by Egypt`s one of the leading televisions Alhyat. The journalist of the television put questions to the president about Georgian reforms, police reform in particular; Georgia-Russia relations and so-called Arab Spring. `We just started with the...
Security sources say 24 people have been injured in clashes between Turkish police and Kurdish citizens in southeastern Turkey. Clashes broke out in the city of Batman, capital of Batman Province, the town of Cizre in Sirnak Province, and the town of Yuksekova in Hakkari Province on Tuesday. Fifteen...
Repeat expertise has confirmed that Georgian Mamuka Kakhishvili, 19, was killed in Samara, Russia. The accident occurred on November 10, 2011. The police officer brutally beat the boy, who died on the injuries; however, the official version of the police was entirely different and unbelievable. They...
A citizen of Georgia was detained in Dubai on robbery charges. Uzbekistan nations were also arrested during the same operation. The detainees are suspected in having broken in one of the state companies and having seized USD 500 thousand. The detainees first attacked the company's employee and...
Zurab Chiaberashvili, Georgia's newly appointed Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs is expected in his office by noon today to start performing his duties. Reportedly, Chiaberashvili does not plan to carry out any staff changes. The new minister named hospital sector's development,...
E.U. Foreign Policy chief Baroness Catherine Ashton said she "did not draw any parallels whatsoever" between the Jewish children murdered in France Monday and Palestinian Arab children in the Gaza Strip. About 8:00 a.m. Monday, a lone gunman opened fire at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France,...
The US Senators call on the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to reiterate its open-door policy towards the countries, which seek the military alliance's membership. The Senators had into consideration the following countries: Georgia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia which were rejected...
A conference about security in South Caucasus is being held in Tbilisi with support of the Georgian and British Foreign Ministries. Holiday Inn Hotel is hosting the event, which is held under the auspices of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Regional...
