Monday, December 8, 2025

Number of hospitalized after wedding poisoning scandal rises to 40

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PM Kvirikashvili visiting some of the poison victims at Marneuli hospital on Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–About 40 people – 22 of them children – are still in hospital after being poisoned during a wedding in Georgia.

Nearly 200 people were poisoned on Monday at a wedding in Sadakhlo, a village in the south of Georgia near the border with Armenia.

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Court issues detention order for policeman charged in suicide case

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The court building in Kutaisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Georgia on Tuesday issued an order to detain a policeman who is accused of having caused the suicide of a 22-year-old man.

The wanted police officer Goderdzi Tevzadze has gone into hiding, and Kutaisi City Court therefore issued the ruling ‘in absentia’.

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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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Should Georgia’s foreign policy alignment be defined in the Constitiution?

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Nino Burjanadze. (Interpressnews.)
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Davit Usupashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two proposals to define Georgia’s foreign policy alignment in the Constitution were postponed by a parliament committee because not enough MPs showed up. The rebellious opposition leader who started the debate now claims parliament has violated election rules.

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Policeman on the run – charged with causing 22-year-old's suicide

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Demur Sturua (22) left a suicide note implicating the wanted police officer. (Interpressnews.)
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Activists blamed Georgia’s drug policy of having caused the young man’s death. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A police officer in Georgia was Monday charged with causing a young man to commit suicide.

The police officer, Goderdzi Tevzadze in the western Georgian town Samtredia, has gone into hiding and was charged in absentia.

He is charged with abusing his official powers

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Russian-Turkish détente nothing that Americans should be concerned about: Former US Ambassador to Turkey

Ross Wilson, former US Ambassador to Turkey, currently Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC summarizes latest developments in the Turkey-US and Turkey-Russia relations. The interview excerpts ran on the Voice of America’s program. Below is a transcript as recorded by Anna Kalandadze of VoA’s Georgian service.  What … Read more