GEORGIA KILLS SUSPECTED LEADER OF ISTANBUL ATTACK

Akhmed Chatayev was killed in a special operation in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, during which three other people also died... READ MORE›

GEORGIA EYES GAINS IN CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

A day earlier, Hungary hosted the 16 1 summit between China and 16 eastern European countries... READ MORE›

11 DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE IN GEORGIA'S BLACK SEA RESORT

All 20 participants escaped unhurt using a fire escape ladder, it said... READ MORE›

GEORGIA SEEKING ANSWERS AFTER TBILISI TERROR INCIDENT

Pankisi Valley, 160km northeast from Tbilisi, is a majority Sunni Muslim part of predominantly Orthodox Christian Georgia... READ MORE›

GUNFIRE HEARD AS GEORGIA FORCES STORM TBILISI BUILDING

Explosions and gunfire were heard in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday as counterterrorism units stormed a multi-storey apartment building on the outskirts of the city... READ MORE›

EVIDENCE OF WORLD'S EARLIEST WINEMAKING UNCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Humans made grape wine hundreds of years earlier than previously believed, according to analysis of clay pottery dating back to 6,000 BC... READ MORE›

REJUVENATED WALLABIES EYE ENGLAND AFTER WALES WIN

Wales might also have to go into next weekend's match against Georgia without the services of British and Irish Lions centre Jonathan Davies... READ MORE›

SAAKASHVILI LEADS KIEV PROTEST AGAINST POROSHENKO

Saakashvili says the case against him in Georgia is a political witch hunt... READ MORE›

FORMER GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI FORCES HIS WAY INTO UKRAINE

AFP JANEK SKARZYNSKI Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili sits in a train going to Ukraine from Poland, as he vows to reclaim his Ukrainian citizenship... READ MORE›

FORMER GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI FORCES HIS WAY INTO UKRAINE

AFP JANEK SKARZYNSKI Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili sits in a train going to Ukraine from Poland, as he vows to reclaim his Ukrainian citizenship... READ MORE›

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'I WILL NOT WEAR A HIJAB'

Nazi Paikidze says Iran's hijab law is oppressive. But one of the country's top chess players says a boycott will only hurt women's sports in Iran... READ MORE›

EU REACHES DEAL TO GRANT VISA-FREE TRAVEL TO 50 MILLION PEOPLE

The deal on visa suspension must still be formally approved by the member states and the European Parliament... READ MORE›

INSIDE A FAKE NEWS FACTORY THIS IS ALL ABOUT INCOME

In Tbilisi, the two-room rented apartment Mr. Latsabidze shares with his younger brother is an unlikely offshore outpost of America's fake news industry... READ MORE›

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT GRANTS GEORGIA VISA-FREE TRAVEL

The European Parliament has approved a proposal on visa liberalisation for Georgia, allowing conditional visa-free travel for citizens of the small post-Soviet country... READ MORE›

DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? 16 COUNTRIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING TODAY

Some of the same Christmas traditions are shared among most countries which observe the Julian calendar... READ MORE›

TBILISI RESIDENTS WARNED OVER ZOO ANIMALS

Residents of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, are told to stay indoors after flooding kills eight people and causes a number of zoo animals to escape... READ MORE›

ZOO ANIMALS ON THE LOOSE IN TBILISI AFTER FLOODING

Not all the animals that fled from the zoo have been caught yet the mayor was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 9 DEAD, TIGERS ON LOOSE IN GEORGIAN CAPITAL FLOODING

Were captured or killed, and the search for those still on the loose continued early Sunday, the news agency Civil.ge... READ MORE›

OMINOUS NEWS FOR ALEPPO AS RUSSIAN FRIGATE REACHES SYRIAN COAST

Three Russian submarines from Russia's northern fleet capable of firing Kalibr missiles are also reported to have arrived in the Mediterranean... READ MORE›

GEORGIA FLOODS ESCAPED TIGER KILLS MAN

The animal was one of several to break free from its enclosure at Tbilisi Zoo last weekend following severe flooding... READ MORE›

'A TIGER WHISPERER'

Konwiser had worked three years at the zoo and was very experienced with tigers, Carter said... READ MORE›

HIPPOPOTAMUS ON LOOSE IN TBILISI SHOT WITH TRANQUILLISER

Dangerous animals escaped georgian capital's zoo after heavy flooding which has killed at least 12 people... READ MORE›

ZOO ANIMALS ON THE LOOSE AND DEATHS FEARED AFTER GEORGIA FLOODS

Escaped hippopotamus shown cornered in Tbilisi square, as devastating floods reportedly kill eight people and wild animals escape from city zoo... READ MORE›

PATRONS OF VEGAN CAFE ARE PELTED WITH MEAT IN TBILISI GEORGIA

Georgia celebrated its independence day on Thursday, a few days before the cafe attack... READ MORE›

ORTHODOX CHURCH SNUBS POPE FRANCIS IN GEORGIA

Pope Francis has wrapped up a visit to Georgia with fresh gestures of friendship towards the Orthodox Church despite being snubbed by the local patriarchate... READ MORE›

LIONS AND TIGERS ROAM STREETS OF TBLISI AFTER DEADLY FLASH FLOODS HIT CITY

Tbilisi Police ask to stay home due to escaped animals on the streets... READ MORE›

ABDUCTED AZERI JOURNALIST'S WIFE REJECTS GEORGIAN OFFER

The abducted journalist Afgan Mukhtarli had been investigating Georgian business ties of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev's family, claimed Mukhtarli's wife Leyla Mustafayeva... READ MORE›

NAGORNO-KARABAKH FIGHTING: AZERBAIJAN 'CALLS TRUCE'

Azerbaijan has announced a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region... READ MORE›

A RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR WAS MURDERED. THE APOLOGY CAME IN THE SHAPE OF A HUGE DIAMOND.

In the 1920s, two Bolshevik ambassadors were slain by embittered White Russian exiles in Switzerland and Poland... READ MORE›

GEORGIA VOTE: GEORGIAN DREAM SET TO WIN CONTESTED POLL

Accusations by opposition of vote rigging abound, as Georgian Dream tops rival UNM in early poll count... READ MORE›

HOW LONDON COUPLE ENDED UP IN A TURKISH JAIL

But even putting more than 2,000 miles between them and Ms Ismail's family had not guaranteed their safety... READ MORE›

THE WEEK IN WILDLIFE IN PICTURES

Photograph Victor Tyakht Alamy Share Share this post close [ ] Water vole, Arvicola amphibius, at Teesdale, North Pennines, county Durham, UK... READ MORE›

'A TIGER WHISPERER'

The Palm Beach Zoo provides a special program in which guests can pay extra to see the tigers... READ MORE›

FROM SWIMMING WITH WHALES TO A PANDA PARTY

Since he was a boy, New England-based naturalist and photographer Samuel Jaffe has been fascinated by caterpillars... READ MORE›

Islamic State fighters took advantage of the chaos to muscle in and become the dominant force among Sunnis... READ MORE›

TURKEY'S ERDOGAN SAYS SYRIAN KURDISH MILITIA USED U.S. WEAPONS ON CIVILIANS

Turkey sees the group as a terrorist organization linked to Kurdish militants waging an insurgency on its own soil... READ MORE›

BUSH PRAISES WORLD CONGRESS OF FAMILIES A HATE GROUP TO SOME

The group, the World Congress of Families, based in Rockford, Ill., is holding a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, where it had planned to honor Mr. Bush... READ MORE›

AZERBAIJAN SAYS TO STOP FIGHTING IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH, SEPARATISTS VOICE DOUBTS

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region home to around 150,000 people on the southern Armenian-Azeri border, broke out in the dying years of Soviet Union... READ MORE›

ISIL TRAINING BASE LOCATED IN GEORGIA'S PANKISI

Long-running volatility in the Pankisi region previously led to Russia imposing visa restrictions on Georgian citizens in 2000... READ MORE›

SAAKASHVILI QUITS ODESSA WITH ALL GUNS BLAZING

Eighteen months after he arrived in Odessa promising to reform the notoriously corrupt region, Mikhail Saakashvili has exited his post as governor... READ MORE›