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TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Constitutional Court has overturned a ban on donation of blood by men who have had sex with other men.
The lawsuit to lift the ban was filed by LGBT rights activists Gocha Gabodze and Levan Berianidze.
The ban on donating blood for ‘a man who has had a sexual
TBILISI, DFWatch–Five foreign tourists were rescued by helicopter from a mountain plateau in the main Caucasus range Saturday after being isolated by a flooded stream.
Personnel from the Emergency Management Agency used helicopters belonging to the border
TBILISI, DFWatch–The separatists in one of Georgia’s two breakaway regions denied a report in Russian media that their leader was injured in a car crash Saturday while visiting another separatist region.
Anatoly Bibilov, the de facto president of the tiny enclave South Ossetia,
TBILISI, DFWatch–An Indian businessman was refused entry to Georgia for the second time on Wednesday, after a similar incident two days earlier.
A lawyer for Akbar Khan Qureshi said the young Indian entrepreneur again was turned away in the border control at Tbilisi airport
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two men were rescued by a police helicopter in Western Georgia on Wednesday.
The two got stuck in the middle of a flooded river near the village Khabume in Samegrelo.
Local rescue workers were unable to bring the two men out of the river Khobistskali,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A fire tore through Georgia’s largest outdoors market Sunday evening, leaving at least four people hospitalized, including one firefighter, and devastating up to 2,500 square meters of commercial space, officials said.
The fire at Eliava bazaar in Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss a proposal to dismiss its chairperson in early October after a motion was tabled on Friday.
The motion to dismiss PACE President Pedro Agramunt was backed by 158 out of the 636 member
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Council of Europe official is in despair over the way Georgian leaders have handled the drafting of a new constitution, calling the debacle a ‘crisis’.
“I’m disappointed and become more and more disappointed for every hour,” head of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgians will go to the polls to elect new mayors and local governments in the end of October, President Giorgi Margvelashvili announced on Tuesday.
The local elections will be held in the ‘end the third week of October’, the president said,
