An explosion outside an open market in Vladikavkaz killed 15 and injured over 90 people, women and children among them. The blast was heard at 11:30 on Tuesday. Reportedly, it was a deliberate terror attack. A suicide bomber exploded the bomb in a vehicle parked outside the market place. The terror attack...
The ambassadorial organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia will be over today. At today`s meeting held in the Hotel Radisson, the heads of Georgian diplomatic missions abroad listened to the reports of the Minister of Finance Kakha Baindurashvili and the Minister of Probation and Legal...
The political reforms carried out in Georgia during the past few years, turned out in the focus of one of the Russian comedy shows. An excerpt from the show was published on social sites. Famous satirist, writer Mikheil Zhvanetski, who was invited to the show, addressed the Russian leadership asking...
Pirates on Wednesday hijacked a Malta-flagged cargo ship carrying a crew of 15 Georgians and three Turks in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, the European Union`s anti-piracy mission said. A US warship deployed a helicopter to check on the ship after several unsuccessful attemps to make contact with the...
Moscow accuses Georgia of bias and assesses the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on Tuesday as counter-productive. The Russian Foreign Ministry has released a special statement in response to the resolution on its website. The statement says that the authors of the resolution actually...
MOLDPRES. Acting President Mihai Ghimpu today sent a message to Romanian President Traian Basescu, thanking him for the assistance given to alleviate the consequences of the last summer devastating floods, the presidential press service has said. The message says: "Your Excellency, I...
BTA. Nasko Sirakov told BTA on Wednesday that he is leaving his post as Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) Director for the National Teams. This is a second resignation after Bulgaria lost 0-1 to Montenegro in Tuesday's Group G qualifier for the 2012 European Football Championship, which left...
The chairperson of the parliament`s temporary commission for the restoration of Georgia`s territorial integrity, Shota Malashkhia has downplayed the concerns of the Labour Party of Georgia, who said earlier today that the government kept silence over extension of the so-called border with the occupied...
The European Parliament today approved a grant worth 90 million euros for Moldova by majority vote, the government's communications and press relations department has said. The financial assistance is given to back Moldova to fight the financial crisis. The grant will be used to cover the deficit...
Foreign Minister of Finland, Alexander Stub pays official visit to Georgia. The diplomat held its first meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze. The sides discussed bilateral cooperation and emphasized the necessity to reinforce the friendly-political relations by intensifying...
CNN. BP on Wednesday is expected to release findings of an internal investigation into the Gulf oil disaster, the oil giant said. The report comes nearly five months after an April 20 explosion aboard an oil rig left 11 men dead and spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over an...
Poland`s immigration authorities are discussing the cases of approximately three thousand Georgian nationals, who arrived their illegally and asked for asylum from local government. The illegal residents are staying in immigration camps until the relevant office makes decision on their deportation....
CNN. U.N. officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate. In remarks prepared for delivery to the Security Council after returning from a fact-finding trip to the region, U.N. Assistant...
Itar-Tass. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the South Stream pipeline would be as quickly as Nord Stream. "We have started building the gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed, and gas will start flowing by this pipeline next year. We are working fast. And we will build South Stream just as...
BTA - Ankara relies on Sofia to support its membership in the EU, outgoing Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Gucuk said in a public lecture Tuesday, organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria. He recalled that Turkey was the only state to support Bulgaria for its NATO membership with a adoption of a special...
