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Georgia-based Healthcare CEO loses job: Defends wife's racist slurs at Jewish neighbour; viral video sparks outrage
The company announced his dismissal in a LinkedIn statement, calling the conduct “reprehensible” and “completely inconsistent with our values.”A heated neighbourhood dispute in Georgia has spiraled into a public controversy after a healthcare...
Russia’s Imperial Black Sea Strategy
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and other neighbors is transforming the Black Sea into Eurasia’s strategic frontier. Russia has disrupted flows of energy, food, and other commodities; generated millions of migrants; and heightened insecurity...

Georgia says 65 Ukrainians detained at the border have been flown home
The Caucasus is changing — so are we. The future of journalism in the region is grim. Independent voices are under threat — and we’re responding by building a newsroom powered by our readers. Join our community and help push back against the...

AZERBAIJAN: First jailing of conscientious objector for 3 years
For the first time in nearly three years, a court is known to have convicted and imprisoned a young man for conscientious objection to compulsory military service on religious grounds. On 30 July, Yevlakh District Court in central Azerbaijan...

Expert: Azerbaijan can play a central role in energy transition across Eurasia – INTERVIEW
Baku, August 23, AZERTAC AZERTAC presents an interview with Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Centre for International Studies, expert on international...

Clarkson for PM, attacks on police dogs: Do Parliament petitions make a difference?
ShareSave Jeremy Clarkson and police dogs have featured among the petitions on the Parliament website since its launch As long as humans have been writing down important information, others have been pulling their leg. So it's no surprise that...
Russia Bad America Good
The demonization of Russia among Western journalists has gotten so perverse, if Vladimir Putin were to jump in an erupting volcano and rescue a family of four Americans, carrying them on his back hobbling along on the melted stumps of his legs to...

The $100 Chicken Nuggets At US Open Aren't Winning Over Fans: 'You’d Be Better Getting McDonald’s'
Nuggets have a ceiling, don't they? PublishedAugust 27, 2025 2:47 PM EDT•UpdatedAugust 27, 2025 3:38 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link I don't think there's any food that people can agree on more than chicken nuggets. The central food of a...

6 Common Mistakes That Hurt Injury Claims in Atlanta Court Cases
6 Common Mistakes That Hurt Injury Claims in Atlanta Court Cases Published 2:46 pm Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Image Source Filing a personal injury claim in Atlanta is more than just submitting paperwork and waiting for a settlement. Every...

Russia's Crime Rate Hits 12-Year High
Crime in Russia has hit its highest level in 12 years, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported, citing Prosecutor General’s Office data. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Russia registered 27,124 crimes in the first half of 2025 —...

Study Finds Droughts Are Making the Air Deadlier in Latin America
When water is below normal levels in Latin America, it’s not just farmers and consumers who suffer. A new study finds that air pollution spikes, and thousands of people die prematurely as a result. The paper, “Droughts Worsen Air Quality and...

Opinion: Stalin’s 11-Minute Ovation and Why Trump’s Suck-Up Cabinet Won’t Stop Clapping
An explosion of enthusiastic applause for Joseph Stalin followed a Communist Party conference in 1937. The ovation went on for three minutes, four, five… Palms were getting sore, arms were aching, and the older members of the audience were panting...

Healthy Savannah Offers Free Screening of “Chocolate Milk” Documentary in Conjunction with Black Breastfeeding Week to Encourage Black Mothers to Breastfeed
By Savannah Tribune | on August 20, 2025 Healthy Savannah has planned a special screening of the documentary “Chocolate Milk” at 3:00 PM on Sunday, August 24, 2025, at Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus. The free event will be held at...

A decade after throwing open its borders to millions of migrants, Germany is now proof Farage's deportation flights pledge can work, writes SUE REID
Joseph is hiding from Germany's deportation police. He is living in a small room borrowed from a friend, only daring to go out once a week for a secret visit to church. Even then, he gets a lift from a fellow worshipper rather than braving public...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Health leadership should be streamlined
Published 1:10 pm Friday, August 22, 2025 By James A. Marples, Longview, Texas (with family near Moultrie) People ask me why I like history so much. Well, we can learn from it. Having family near Moultrie, I read the Moultrie Observer article:...

Archeologists discover 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone — possibly the oldest artifact of early humans outside Africa
A jaw-dropping discovery. A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in Eurasia. The ancient...

Ukraine returns 65 citizens illegally held on border with Georgia, forcibly deported by Russia
Aug 22 — On August 21-22, Ukraine returned 65 people held in the buffer zone of the Dariali checkpoint in Georgia on the border with Russia amid a humanitarian crisis. Among those returned were 10 women and eight seriously ill people, said Ihor...

Georgia peanut production shows increase in 2025
Published 5:13 pm Tuesday, August 19, 2025 US PLANTED ACRES: Some requested the Farm Service Agency reported peanut acres, some refer these acres to certified, however, these can change and are farmer reported planted. Final acreage will be...

UK-EU Facilitation Forum
Aileen McLeod Alberto-Horst Neidhardt Alice Berzolla Alison Hunter Almut Möller Amanda Paul Ana Berdzenishvili Andrew Duff Andrew Scott Anna Crawford Annalisa Buscaini Annika Hedberg Arancha González Laya Arnaldo-Javier Mina Mendoza Benedetta...

Development of European Commission's strategy to address foot-and-mouth disease was a topic of discussion in Armenia
The Deputy Minister of Economy of Armenia, Tatevik Sargsyan, along with European Commission experts Carsten Pötzsch and Paulie Compston, engaged in discussions regarding the development of the strategy to combat foot-and-mouth disease in Yerevan....