Sunday, March 22, 2026

Georgian prisoner escapes by feigning illness

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Actor Aidan Quinn’s character overpowering the prison doctor in the 1987 film ‘Stakeout’.
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Otar Varamashvili, the escaped prisoner.

TBILISI, DFWatch–It could have been a scene from a Hollywood movie, the moment when a prisoner escaped from Rustavi City Court on Wednesday.

According to reports, the escapee was in the waiting room for defendants when he said he was feeling sick.

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200 wedding guests poisoned – 21 still hospitalized

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21 wedding guests remain hospitalized after the mass food poisoning. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Almost 200 people were taken ill with food poisoning at a wedding in the south of Georgia on Monday, 28 of them children.

The mass poisoning took place in the village Sadakhlo, near Marneuli.

The affected wedding guests mostly complained about feeling sick and disoriented.

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Georgian PM's latest election promise: a new road to Russia

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New evacuation facilities were recently built near the Georgia-Russia border crossing to protect against landslides, which claimed eight lives in 2014. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili on Tuesday promised to build a new highway that will improve the road connection between Tbilisi and the Russian border.

“Within the next four years, we plan to build a highway from Mtskheta to Vladikavkaz,”

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