CNN. French hostage Michel Germaneau has been executed by his al-Qaeda-linked captors in the north African country of Mauritania, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday. Sarkozy vowed that the "crime committed against Michel Germaneau will not be left unpunished." "We are...
16 year-old Mikael Orujov drowned in the Pantiani Lake in the town of Dmanisi. The young sportsman, the citizen of Azerbaijan, who was the winner of the European championship in Sambo, arrived in Dmanisi to participate in the Georgia-Azerbaijan friendship tournament. After the competition, the young...
BBC. The United States has condemned as "irresponsible" the leak of 90,000 military records, saying publication could threaten national security. The documents released by the Wikileaks website include details of killings of Afghan civilians unreported until now. Three news organisations...
CNN. A man who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died during the Khmer Rouge regime was found guilty of war crimes Monday and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Despite the sentence, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, will serve no more than 19 years. The judge took off five years...
CNN. A suicide car bomber drove a bus into the compound of the Saudi-funded al-Arabiya TV in central Baghdad Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 16 others, officials said. Authorities are investigating how the bus, belonging to a telecommunications company, made it past a security...
Presentation of the website - www.tpdc.ge of Teacher Professional Development Center was held at MES for the journalists. Renovated website became informational and interesting. All news, ongoing activities of the Center and planned events will be posted on the site. Together with the content,...
A four year-old Lile Chartolani has been hospitalized from Zugdidi to Tbilisi due to the complication of her health state. The child, her father and two other passengers were seriously injured in a car accident on Mestia-Zugdidi highway two days ago. The child was operated on in Zugdidi hospital...
Georgian governmental delegation has left for Geneva to participate in the next round of the international negotiations on the security issues in South Caucasus. The officials said before the departure that they expect very tense debates. However, the head of the delegation, first deputy minister of...
Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union will deliver a report on her recent visit to Georgia at the meeting of the EU foreign ministers. The session will be held today. Georgian ambassador to EU and Benelux states, Salome Samadashvili...
Nine years have passed since the murder of Rustavi2 journalist, Giorgi Sanaia. The anchor of the most popular political talk show the Night Courier was found killed with a pistol gun in his apartment on July 26, 2001. Four months after the murder the police arrested former officer of the Interior...
Public Christening was performed Saturday in the seaside village of Anaklia, Semegrelo Region. The ritual was held in the vicinity of the occupational borderline of Georgia`s breakaway region of Abkhazia. A lot of people were baptized with blessings of Archbishop of Zugdidi and Tsaishi Eparchy Father...
Georgian and French sides are discussing Georgian air reforms in the seaside town of Batumi, in Adjara Region. Georgian Minister for Economy and Sustainable Development Vera Kobalia is holding meeting with representatives of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Kirsten Theil and George...
Mamuka Areshidze, political scientist in connection with the International Court of Justice decision on Kosovo independence legitimacy said that this precedent has nothing in common with the Georgian occupied territories. Areshidze said this to GHN. He commented the declaration of Sergey...
CNN. New France coach Laurent Blanc has chosen not to select any of the 23-man World Cup squad, that refused to take part in a training session during their disastrous tournament, for next month's friendly international against Norway. Blanc, who took over from Raymond Domenech following France's...
Rescuers have been searching for two kids killed in the car crash in Mutso Gorge of Khevsureti Province. 2-year-old Demetre Daiauri and 4-monthMamuka Arabuli were lost during the car accident two days ago. The rescuer works were suspended due to bad visibility late last night, although they were resumed...
