Two policemen have been minor injuries this morning in a police operation that takes place at the moment in Toulouse in connection with the arrest of the murderer that caused seven deaths, four of them in a Jewish school, of that city, reported Wednesday the radio station "France Info". The...
The Georgian lawmakers today will adopts a statement regarding appointment of Aleksander Tkachov, Governor of Krasnodar region as Russian Presidential Envoy in Georgia's one of two occupied regions of Abkhazia. MPs believe that the decision is unprecedented since the local puppet regime will now...
Nika Gilauri, Georgia's Prime Minister presented the government's 10-point 2011-2015 action plan in the parliament this afternoon, and declared Georgia without poverty as the main target for the authorities. Gilauri named global economic crisis outcomes and Georgia's occupied regions as...
Georgian contender of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was qualified as number 12 to perform on the stage. 36 Semi-Finalists, the so-called Big 5 countries - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK - and the host country Azerbaijan were anxiously awaiting for the results of the draw for the...
Indices of economic growth in 2011 in Georgia were summed up at Statistics National Service earlier today. Based on the data, the Gross Domestic Product has increased by 7 %. The growth is connected to development of financial sector, trade, agriculture and tourism. As for the data of 2012, the...
The US soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan "doesn't remember" the incident, his lawyer has said after their first face-to-face meeting in a military detention centre in Kansas. "He doesn't remember everything about the evening in question,"...
Four foreign tourists have died after being buried in a massive avalanche in northern Norway, police say. Six people in total were swept away when the avalanche struck on Mt Sorbmegaisa near Tromsoe on Norway's Arctic coast on Monday, the Associated Press reports. One was a French citizen...
The Georgian Social Workers' Association marks professional day on March 20. A meeting was held on this occasion at Youth Palace in Tbilisi this afternoon. Holly Bass, wife of US Ambassador to Georgia gave certificates to volunteer social workers. Members of the Association attended the event....
The corpse of Tornike Jishkariani, 21, has been found in a cellar at #9 Nikea Street in Kutaisi, administrative capital of Imereti region. The young man lived at this house. His friends received a strange text message two days ago and have been looking for Jishkariani since then. The police are...
A Georgian citizen, aged 32, whose identity is not revealed, has been detained at Belarus-Lithuanian border for an attempt to cross the frontier illegally. According to Lithuanian media, the detainee was fund with the Georgian passport and is now kept at pre-detention isolator. The Belarusian...
The Russian Black Sea fleet's Iman tanker has arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea with an anti-terror squad from the Russian Marines aboard according to the Interfax news agency. The Assad government has insisted it is fighting a terrorist insurgency. The Russian news...
Vera Kobalia, Georgia's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development is paying a working visit to Great Britain. Kobalia held meetings at Foreign and Transport Ministries. The sides discussed bilateral cooperation perspectives in transport, trade and investments. Certain projects to be...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced "red" - the highest level of terrorist threat in the southern region of Midi-Pyrenees on Monday, March 19. The decision was made in connection with the murder of three students and teacher of Jewish schools in the region's largest city, Toulouse....
Four people have died of AIDS in Georgia, two of which were women. Doctors say along with AIDS, the reason of the death in all four cases was the chronic diseases that are incompatible with life. According to the National Centre of Disease Control, 100 new cases of AIDS have been registered in 2012,...
A 2.5-magnitude earthquake hit Georgia late last night. The epicenter was detected at Tedzisi village, 5 kilometers away from Tsalka, Kvemo Kartli region. No ruins followed the quake as Seismology Center of the Tbilisi Ilia State University reports. A minor earthquake also hit Tsalka two days ago...
