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Georgia State Senator Colton Moore Thrown To Ground Trying To Enter House Chamber

January 17, 2025 admin

Colton Moore, a Georgia state senator was heckled and pushed into the ground before being arrested as he attempted to enter the state House chamber on Thursday (Jan 16). Mr Moore was banned indefinitely from entering the House chamber last year after making controversial statements about the late House Speaker David Ralston but returned to…

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Mikheil Kavelashvili, Ex-Football Player, Sworn In As Georgia President

December 29, 2024 admin

Mikheil Kavelashvili is a former footballer who played for Manchester City. Tbilisi, Georgia: Georgia on Sunday inaugurated governing party loyalist Mikheil Kavelashvili as president despite his election being declared “illegitimate” by the outgoing leader and opposition groups. The far-right former footballer was sworn in at a parliamentary ceremony moments after outgoing president Salome Zurabishvili said…

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12 Indians Die From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Mountain Resort In Georgia

December 16, 2024 admin

Tbilisi: Eleven Indian nationals were found dead at a restaurant in Georgia’s mountain resort of Gudauri, the Indian mission here said on Monday. Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said the initial inspection found no signs of injury or violence. All victims died from carbon monoxide poisoning, local media reported, citing police. The Indian mission in…

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Georgia Rocked By Violent Protests Over Russia-EU Divide Within Country

December 2, 2024 admin

AFP The party, which ruled Georgia since 2012, is reportedly founded by a billionaire who made his fortune in Russia. The party is often accused by critics of trying to move the country closer to Russia and away from the EU. Ahead of October’s elections, it pushed through legislation targeting independent civil society and curbing…

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Woman Searching For Her Birth Parents Discovers Father In Facebook Friends List

December 2, 2024 admin

An adopted woman in Georgia received the surprise of a lifetime after she found she had been Facebook friends with her birth father all these years. Tamuna Museridze made the astonishing discovery while she was on a mission to find her birth parents, according to a report in BBC. Ms Museridze’s search started in 2016…

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Car Was Pulled Out Of A Pond. It May Have Solved A 44-Year-Old Murder Case

November 29, 2024 admin

A 44-year-old murder case has gotten hope for closure after two skeletal remains were found in a car submerged in a murky pond in the United States last week. The car is believed to belong to a Scarsdale couple that vanished in 1980. Charles Romer, a retired oil company executive from Scarsdale, and his wife…

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Fake Bomb Threats Linked To Russia Briefly Close Polling Locations In Swing State Georgia

November 5, 2024 admin

Atlanta: At least two polling sites in the US election battleground state of Georgia were briefly evacuated on Tuesday after fake bomb threats that election officials in the state blamed on Russian agents. The threats, which were deemed to be non-credible, caused two polling locations in Fulton County, Georgia, to be evacuated. Both reopened after…

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Bidzina Ivanishvili, Secretive Billionaire Called Georgia’s “Puppet Master”

October 28, 2024 admin

Tbilisi: When Georgia’s richest man first burst into politics 12 years ago, he vowed to “astonish Europe” with the democracy he would bring to the Black Sea nation. But Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire founder of Tbilisi’s ruling party, has done what many critics say is the opposite: led the country into international isolation while curbing…

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US Woman Died After Abortion Ban Delayed Her Medical Care: Report

September 16, 2024 admin

Accoring to report, this was the first abortion-related death officially. Washington: Reproductive rights groups erupted in outrage Monday after ProPublica revealed that a Georgia woman died from delayed medical care caused by the US state’s restrictive abortion law. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, developed a rare complication from abortion pills and died during emergency surgery in…

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Four killed in U.S. school shooting in Georgia: law enforcement

September 4, 2024 admin

A law enforcement officer works near the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Four people were killed and nine wounded in a school shooting in the U.S. State of Georgia on Wednesday (September 4, 2024), the State bureau of investigation said. “Four…

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