DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament is to consider making it mandatory to get a court’s permission for persons of the age 16 to 18 to get married.
The bill was put forth by parliament’s judiciary committee and is based on a recommendation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first nine months of 2015 went down by 13 percent compared to last year, according to a preliminary monthly report published by the National Statistics Department.
According to the monthly report,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The breakaway region South Ossetia plans to open a new border crossing to make it easier for relatives to keep contact.
This will be the fourth border crossing between the breakaway area and Georgia proper, and will connect the villages Khelchua
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government will from next year allow the Public Defender’s Office to take pictures inside prison.
This will allow photographic evidence to be obtained in cases where there is suspicion of abuse, or when sanitary conditions
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Constitutional Court has suspended the work of a newly created agency that was to take over the supervision of private banks; previously the responsibility of the National Bank.
The ruling was made during a lawsuit against the parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has the highest proportion of undernourished among South Caucasus countries, according to a new report.
From 2014 to 2016, the level of undernourished is estimated to be 7.4 percent. This is higher than both Armenia (5.8 percent) and
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili on Monday presented Pikria Chikhradze as his new political adviser.
Chikhradze is active in the New Rightists Party and is most known for her work as a youth activist in the National Liberation Movement,
TBILISI, DFWatch–An Iranian news agency reports that Omar Al-Shishani, an ISIS commander who originally comes from Pankisi, Georgia, has died in an Iraqi air raid. The reports have not yet been confirmed.
IRNA reports that Iraqi fighter jets wounded
TBILISI, DFWatch–One man died in a landslide in southwestern Georgia on Sunday.
The victim, 58 year old Otar Davitadze, was on night watch supervising machinery in an open pit mine when a landslide hit in the village Akhalsheni, Khelvachauri.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The United States has listed a Chechen with Russian citizenship who was released by the Georgian government in 2012 as connected to the Islamic State.
The updated list of individuals affiliated with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, states