TBILISI, DFWatch–A village was evacuated in Imereti in western Georgia Monday night, after a leak of liquid oxygen from an overturned truck.
The truck overturned in a sharp bend, according to the Interior Ministry.
It was carrying a large amount of liquid oxygen.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgian boys, one 18 and the other younger, have allegedly left the country to become fighers for Islamic State in Syria, acording to locals.
The two were attending tenth and eleventh grade at a school in the village Omalo, in Pankisi Gorge.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Friday detained a Moldovan citizen for using an ATM skimmer to illegally obtain money.
The suspect installed a so-called ATM skimmer, a barely noticeable device installed in the card reading slot of the machine which copies information
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s Investigative Service on Thursday detained two veterinarians in Tbilisi for fraud that allowed potentially dangerous meat to get through to consumers.
Veterinarians Khvicha Bichiashvili and Mamuka Mzhavanadze are charged with
TBILISI, DFWatch–New figures show that Georgia’s increase in population continued an upward trend in 2014, but the growth rate is still barely above zero.
The number of live births minus the number of deaths, which scientists call the natural increase, was 11,548 in 2014.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained four fake priests who apparently falsified documents in order to get visa for the Schengen area.
The young men are accused of forging documents that make them out to be clerics in the influential Georgian Church.
TBILISI, DFWatch–After a few days of restrictions, Gudauri-Kobi road in northern Georgia is now open for traffic.
But all kinds of vehicles must use snow chains on the Gudauri-Kobi road due to snow and ice, according to the Roads Department.
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TBILISI, DFWatch–President Margvelashvili on Thursday converted the sentence of a man so he will no longer need to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The head of the president’s pardon commission Zviad Koridze said the most serious crime the prisoner
TBILISI, DFWatch–Traffic is prohibited for all kinds of vehicles along the Gudauri-Kobi road section in northern Georgia due to intense snow and wind.
The Roads Department also warns that it is not allowed to stop on 134km-135km of the Stepantsminda-Larsi
TBILISI, DFWatch–There are traffic restrictions on the Ninotsminda road, which leads to the border with Armenia.
Restrictions are in effect along the 94km-100km section of the road, where trailers, half-trailers and vehicles with more than 30 seats are