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Georgian ‘mafia boss’ slips net
Sarah Rainsford/BBC News, Madrid
The main target of a trans-European operation against a Georgian-organised crime network escaped in Greece on Monday, a Spanish official has said.
Spain’s anti-corruption chief said Lasha Shushanashvili got away because of what he called a lack of necessary co-operation from Greek police.
Georgians panic over mock TV news report of Russian invasion
RIA Novosti
A Georgian television station sparked panic throughout Georgia on Saturday by broadcasting a fake news item about a supposed invasion of Russian troops and murder of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
The program, called Special Report, was shown on the private Imedi TV channel on Saturday evening.
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Saakashvili pays US firms to lobby for him in Washington
RT.com
Tbilisi has signed a contract with an influential US lobbying firm, the Podesta Group. Thanks to its efforts, President Saakashvili will reportedly pay his first visit to the US since Barack Obama’s election.
“Georgia online” reported Wednesday referring to US sources that in April Mikhail Saakashvili will meet with American President Barack Obama, Secretary of State [...]
Drug Trafficking to Russia Transits through Georgia
Global Research/Itar Tass
MOSCOW — The territory of Georgia has been turning into one of powerful ways of drug trafficking to Russia, leader of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) Viktor Ivanov said at a meeting of its collegium on Saturday.
“The key directions of drug trafficking go through the area of water of the Black [...]
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Falklands
Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the UN.
Despite Britain’s close alliance with the US, the Obama Administration is determined not to be drawn into the issue. It has also declined [...]
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Sharks
113 nations have signed on to conserve migratory shark species. This is being heralded as a landmark decision.
On the flip side we have seen this kind of thing before.
Nations banding together to work long ranging plans for animal conservation and who fall foul to enforcement issues or internal pressures from commercial fishing interests.
In short, while [...]
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United Arab Emirates
The US has called on the United Arab Emirates to review a court ruling which acquitted a member of its ruling family of torture charges.The court found Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan not guilty of abusing an Afghan man – apparently on grounds of diminished responsibility.A US state department official said questions had [...]
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Poland, US and Russia
Warsaw has denied Russian media reports that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski asked Washington to deploy US troops to protect Poland. On Thursday, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted Sikorski as saying Poland had requesting the United States and NATO to deploy troops in Central Europe. His comments came after media reports [...]
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Russia to allow preventive nuclear strike
Russia may change its military doctrine to allow for a preventive nuclear strike, not only against a large conventionally armed force but against regional and even local forces.
Can’t blame them really, when the US keeps putting missiles on their doorstep and messing around with countries like Georgia, a country that the FSB has linked [...]
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Newsy: Georgian Hoax