Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia will deliver a speech at the European Parliament today. But before that, Grigol Vashadze is holding meetings with the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the CoE secretary general. The key points of the report and the negotiations...
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange will interview key "political players, thinkers and revolutionaries" as host of a new television talk show to be syndicated worldwide. In a statement posted on the whistleblower website today, Assange announced that the TV series will comprise 10...
Our planet is being bombarded by high-energy particles unleashed by the strongest solar storm since 2005, scientists say. The charged particles are mostly a concern for satellites - which they can disrupt - and astronauts. But they can also cause communication problems for aircraft travelling...
A nesting site for dinosaur eggs found in South Africa is 100 million years older than the previous oldest site. Palaeontologists found 10 separate nests, each containing clutches of up to 34 eggs measuring 6-7cm. The fossils are of the prosauropod Massospondylus, a relative of the long-necked...
The nominations for this year's Oscars are set to be unveiled, with George Clooney and Meryl Streep likely to lead the charge in the best actor and best actress categories. Silent film The Artist and family drama The Descendants are expected to be among the frontrunners for best film. The...
President's administration has no intention to appeal a ruling of Tbilisi City Court ordering restoration of Georgian citizenship to billionaire opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili's wife, President Saakashvili's spokesperson, Manana Manjgaladze, said on January 24. On December 27,...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that ethnic conflicts are lethally dangerous for Russia and pledged further reforms in the judicial and law enforcement systems as part of an ongoing crackdown on corruption. "The lessons of history show how lethally dangerous any interethnic and civil conflicts...
The Georgian side will protest over the fact of damaging Georgian cultural monuments located across invaded territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE). Magda Anikashvili, member of the Georgian Parliamentary oppositional Christian-Democratic...
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he expects to pay about $6.2m (£4m) in taxes on income of $42.5m in the last two years. That makes for a tax rate of 13.9% in 2010 and an expected rate of 15.4% in 2011, his campaign said. His income places him among the top earners...
Nine bodies have been recovered from a passenger vessel that sank off the Iranian coast with 22 people aboard, but five survivors have been rescued, - the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. Rescue officials said they feared most of those on board had been trapped inside the boat when it...
The US Administration is prepared to help Serbia and Kosovo to normalise bilateral relations, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during phone conversation with Serbian President Boris Tadic, news agencies report. Clinton addressed Tadic to review the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo...
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be opened today. The Georgian side is preparing for the session. Grigol Vashadze, Georgia's Foreign Minister is scheduled to deliver a speech as part of the session on January 25. Vashadze will talk about the current situation across...
Russian Prime Minister failed to avoid the issue of the Caucasus and nationalism in his article published by the Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Putin said the new sanctions should be imposed and the current legislation of migrants` registration should be reinforced. `Reinforcement of the judiciary and the effectiveness...
Spanish media is reporting that a cime boss detained in the vicinities of Athens, Greece, is a Georgian criminal wanted by Spanish police and Interpol, Lasha Shushanashvili. The arrest took place on Saturday at the luxury hotel Asteras of the coastal town of Vouliagmeni, outside Athens, where they...
European Union ambassadors have agreed the details of an oil embargo against Iran over its nuclear programme, diplomats say. The measures are expected to be officially approved by EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels later. The envoys have reportedly agreed an immediate ban on all new oil...
