Georgia
Georgia ruling party wins local election after arrest of ex-president
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Georgia's ruling party won a commanding lead in a municipal election held a day after the arrest of...
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Zelenskiy vows to engage in returning Saakashvili back to Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he will personally engage in returning Georgia's former president Mikheil...
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Georgia holds crisis local election after former president arrested
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgians voted in municipal elections on Saturday that could determine the outcome of a political crisis, a...
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Returning home, Georgian ex-leader arrested after call for election protest
By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgian police on Friday arrested ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia after the opposition politician returned...
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Georgian ex-leader detained after returning to the country – TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgian law enforcement officers have detained former president and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili inside Georgia, TASS news...
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Georgian ex-president says he will fly home, despite jail threat, to ‘save the country’
TBILISI (Reuters) - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, late on Monday announced plans to fly home on the...
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Top rights lawyer who fled Russia decries political ‘purge’
By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) - A top human rights lawyer who defended jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's team and...
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COVID vaccine mandates – and prizes – boost uptake among Palestinians
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - After mandating vaccinations for workers and many students -...
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Peru’s Castillo picks career diplomat as new foreign minister
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Career diplomat Oscar Maurtua was sworn in as Peru's new foreign minister on Friday to...
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YouTube says it does not allow Taliban-affiliated accounts
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has a long held policy of not allowing accounts...
Read moreGeorgian police search for killer of Australian woman
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian police said on Wednesday they were searching for the killer of an Australian woman whose body...
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Georgia, U.S. troops hold joint NATO drills in wet conditions near Tbilisi
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian and U.S. troops practised treating wounded soldiers in heavy rain on Wednesday as joint military drills...
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Four Georgian TV stations go off air in protest over journalist’s death
TBILISI (Reuters) - Four television channels in Georgia went off the air on Wednesday in protest at the death of...
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Scuffles flare in Georgia parliament after death of journalist
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Scuffles broke out in Georgia's parliament on Monday as journalists and opposition politicians tried to enter the...
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Georgians protest over death of journalist beaten in attack on LGBT+ supporters
TBILISI (Reuters) -A cameraman, one of several journalists beaten during attacks on LGBT+ activists in Tbilisi this week, has been...
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LGBT+ campaigners in Georgia call off pride march after office attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) - LGBT+ campaigners in Georgia called off a pride march on Monday after violent groups opposed to the...
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British naval destroyer that angered Russia docks in Georgia
BATUMI, Georgia, June 26 (Reuters) - The British destroyer Defender, which angered Russia by sailing through waters off Crimea, docked...
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