Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is to guest star on animated comedy The Simpsons, it has been confirmed. The 500th episode will see the family moving to an isolated house and finding themselves living next to Assange. Fox said Assange, currently under house arrest while he appeals his extradition...
A secret Nato report seen by the BBC suggests the Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly helped by the Pakistani security service (ISI). Here are excerpts from the report, based on interrogations of more than 4,000 captured Taliban, al-Qaeda, foreign fighters and civilians. "Reflections...
Russian opposition activists have erected a giant banner opposite the Kremlin saying "Putin go away". The banner is on the roof of a building on the opposite bank of the Moscow River. An activist group called Solidarity says it put it there. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is tipped to...
Georgian police officers arrested Zurab Zurabishvili, 36, in suspicion of having robbed 11 churches both in Tbilisi and different regions of Georgia. The police arrested the man based on finger imprints. Zurabishvili had served prison sentence several time in the past. He has already pleaded guilty....
The leader of the Christian Democratic Movement of Georgia and the parliamentary minority, Giorgi Targamadze has hailed the meeting of the Georgian and U.S. Presidents held in Washington on January 30. Giorgi Targamadze said Barack Obama not only reiterated but reinforced the U.S. support to Georgia/Minority...
A meeting with participation of representatives of the Georgian business sector was held at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel in Tbilisi. Nika Gilauri, Georgia's Prime Minister, Kakha Baindurashvili, President of Chamber of Trade and Commerce and Dimitri Gvindadze, Finance Minister attended the meeting. Baindurashvili...
Children under 6 of age will have free-of-charge medical insurance from the state as of September 2012. As Andria Urushadze, Georgia's Minister of Labor, Healthcare and Social Affairs explained, about 250 thousand children across Georgia will receive insurance packages. Hospital service will...
Georgian billionaire and politician Bidzina Ivanishvili has released his video interview, where he comments on the meeting of the Georgian and U.S. presidents held in Washington on January 30. In the two-minute address, the oligarch, who has already voiced his presidential ambitions, has hailed the meeting...
Heavy snowfall continues hitting regions and capital of Georgia. Twenty trucks transporting cargo to the Russian Federation are stuck in Dusheti region. Heavy vehicles are mobilized and representatives of Roads Department are working in emergency regime in cleaning of the roads. Traffic movement...
Turkish coast guards are searching for 10 people after a dry cargo ship sank off the country's Black Sea coast. The Cambodia-registered ship "Vera," which was sailing from Russia to the Turkish Aegean port of Aliaga and transporting iron, sank during a storm one mile off the Zonguldak...
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attended the presentation of a book about Georgian reforms at the office of the International Monetary Fund within the visit to the United States on Tuesday. The book entitled Fighting Corruption in Public Services was written by the Asad Alam, the IMF Eastern...
President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili held working meeting at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate. The main issue of discussion at the meeting was the enhancement of relation with Georgia, including the economic and security spheres, the possibility to reach agreement about the free trade...
US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has won a clear victory in the Republican primary election in Florida, official results indicate. Mr Romney polled 47%, but rival Newt Gingrich, who only managed 32%, says he has no intention of dropping out. Florida's primary was the biggest of the 2012...
Unemployment in the eurozone hit a record high at the end of last year, the Eurostat agency has said. The jobless rate in the 17 countries that use the single currency was 10.4% in December, unchanged from November's figure which was revised up from 10.3%. Some 16.5 million people were out...
President Mikheil Saakashvili discussed democratic progress and political reforms in that countryIn a meeting at the White House on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama and Georgian , along with security cooperation and Georgia's bid for NATO membership, Voice of America reports. It was the first...
