Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted again Friday, sending a plume about 1,500 meters (4,921 feet) above the mountaintop, an extreme weather chaser said, informs GHN referring to CNN. Ash drifted to the south after the eruption about 10 a.m. local time, weather chaser James Reynolds said. Residents...
FT - European leaders agreed on Thursday night to take up a narrow, limited change in the European Union's treaties to shore up the stability of the euro, but stopped short of giving Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, the more sweeping changes to the bloc's treaties she had called for. After...
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has come on an official visit to Kyiv. During a head of state meeting, Ilham Aliyev and Viktor Yanukovych will discuss enhancing cooperation in the areas of mutual interest and will try to reach concrete agreements, primarily in trade and economic spheres. The...
The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is trying to determine identities of the detained Georgian women facing death penalty in Malaysia. There is no diplomatic relationship between Georgia and Malaysia that complicates the determining activities. Two Georgian women face death penalty in Malaysia...
The health condition of 34-year-old woman remains critical. She received burns over 70% of her body. Patient was transported to Tbilisi from Sachkhere district of Imereti region, and is now placed at the Burns Center in Tbilisi. Doctors say that her health condition is very hard. According to...
A wife and a husband were found suffocated of CO in the city of Telavi, Kakheti, late last night. Luiza Tsertsvadze, 65, and her husband Elberdi Guruli, 71, died of CO, which presumable leaked from faulty gas water heater. The neighbours called for the emergency when they felt the smell of gas, but...
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe yesterday adopted a Report, a Resolution and a Recommendation following a debate on the municipal elections held in Georgia on 30 May 2010. The Report, presented by Günther Krug (Germany, SOC), was the result of an election...
By the initiative of MES, implementation of the program "Einstein" begins from October 26 in the Public Schools of Georgia. The program envisages refurbishing of the school labs in the natural sciences. The goal of the lab refurbishment is to strengthen teaching of natural sciences. "In...
Speaker of Georgian Parliament, Davit Bakradze has voiced a new legislative initiative at the special briefing today. Bakradze said the information about the owners of media holdings should become public and the new standard of transparency of media should be imposed in the country. Bakradze said...
The State Parole Commission will assemble by the end of the week to discuss appeals of convicts, who will be dischardged earlier from prisons. According to the new Code of Imprisonment, the decision on convicts` cases will be taken by the end of October 2010. The members of the commission cannot yet...
Georgian delegation has outlined the issues, which will be prior at the OSCE summit, which will be held in Kazakhstan on December 1-2- 2010. The preparatory conference ended in Vienna yesterday, where the Georgian governmental delegation spoke about the issues of accession of the OSCE mission to the...
Doctors will be fined for making individual deals with pharmaceutical companies - the government of Georgia will launch special measures to regulate the incompatibility of interests in the medical sphere. According to a new draft law, which will be proposed to parliament by the government soon, the doctors...
Ossetian separatists have opened three new checkpoints along the boundary line of the occupied Tskhinvali Region. This is the first engineering construction in the occupied region and it has been named the Yuzhni Val. The defence minister of the occupant regime says the reinforced complex will block...
The football game between Poti Kolkheti and Bolnisi Sioni teams ended with an incident in Poti on Sunday. The local fans, who were discontent with the work of the referee at the game, moved on the stadium and tried to beat up the referee, Arsen Nonikashvili. The police, who were securing situation at...
New York Stock Exchange has shown interest to Georgian state-owned company the Georgian Railways. The loan securities were successfully sold at the NYSE, however, the recent growth of economic indexes in Georgia has grown the interest of investors and the NYSE has expressed a desire to sell Georgian...
