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By Rich McKay, Joseph Ax and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Authorities across a wide swath of the southeastern United States faced the daunting task on Saturday of cleaning up from Hurricane Helene, one of the most powerful to hit the country, as the death toll continued to rise. At least 43 deaths were reported by late on Friday, and officials feared still more bodies would be discovered across several states. Helene, downgraded late on […]
By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) -Suspected Georgia high-school shooter Colt Gray made his first appearance in state court, where he faces murder charges stemming from Wednesday’s rampage that killed four people and wounded nine others. The 14-year-old, who was being held without bond in the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, did not enter a plea in front of Barrow County Superior Court Judge Currie Mingledorff. Mingledorff told Gray that he was charged with four counts […]
By Rich McKay and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) -A 14-year-old student killed two fellow students and two teachers, while wounding nine others, in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, just weeks after classes began, authorities said. The shooting was the first of the new school year in the U.S., a stark reminder of the threat of gun violence in schools and colleges across the nation. The shooting left four dead at Apalachee […]
MOSCOW, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – Russia’s navy will establish a base on the Black Sea coast of a separatist region in Georgia, its leader said in an interview published Thursday, as Moscow’s warships face mounting attack by Ukraine. The announcement from the leader of breakaway Abkhazia comes on the back of several attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Black Sea fleet that have embarrassed the Kremlin. Both Moscow and Kyiv have escalated tensions on […]
https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023 WASHINGTON, Aug 25, 2023 (AFP) – Former president Donald Trump posted his police mugshot on X, the former Twitter, on Thursday after his arrest in Georgia, his first post on the platform since January 2021. The message signals the return of Trump to what had been his favorite bullhorn. It was his first post since several days after the insurrection at the US Capitol that […]
ATLANTA, Aug 25, 2023 (AFP) – Former US president Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail on Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on a $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken. Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes inside Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail before leaving in a motorcade for the airport. […]
ATLANTA, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Donald Trump said he will turn himself in on Thursday in Georgia to face racketeering and other charges stemming from his bid to overturn the 2020 election. Writing on his platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump said that that day he would be “ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” the Georgia official who brought the year’s fourth indictment against the former president. The judge in the […]
ATLANTA, Aug 15, 2023 (AFP) – Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges of racketeering and a string of election crimes after a sprawling, two-year probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden in the US state of Georgia. The case — relying on laws typically used to bring down mobsters — is the fourth targeting the 77-year-old Republican this year and could lead to a watershed moment, the first televised […]
by Irakli METREVELI At least 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Georgia for a third day running Thursday despite the ruling party’s promise to drop a controversial “foreign agent” bill reminiscent of Russian legislation used to silence critics. Waving Georgian, Ukrainian and EU flags, protesters gathered outside the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi, piling pressure on the government, accused of flirting with the Kremlin and putting the Black Sea nation on an […]
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Moscow said Tuesday it will not request the extradition of Russians travelling abroad to avoid being called-up to fight in Ukraine, after thousands of military-aged men crossed into neighbouring countries. “The Russian ministry of defence has not sent any request to the authorities of Kazakhstan, Georgia, or any other country for the alleged forced return to Russian soil of Russian citizens, and it is not planning to do so,” the ministry […]
Tbilisi, Georgia (AFP) The number of Russians arriving daily in neighbouring Georgia has nearly doubled since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, officials in Tbilisi said Tuesday. Putin’s announcement has sparked a new wave of exodus to the Caucasus country of Georgia which has been a major destination for Russians fleeing since the war began on February 24. “Four to five days ago 5,000-6,000 (Russians) were arriving in […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Natela Dzalamidze, who switched from representing Russia to playing for Georgia on the eve of Wimbledon, said Thursday she had always intended to change her nationality to boost her dreams of taking part in the Olympics. The 29-year-old has a Georgian father and Russian mother. Both still live in Moscow. She circumvented the ban on Russian players, imposed at the All England Club following the invasion of Ukraine, by her […]
