The European Union has called for an investigation into election “irregularities” in Georgia’s disputed parliamentary elections, as Pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili refused to recognise the result that saw the ruling Georgian Dream win the vote. The opposition groups, who have said the election has been stolen, fear the ruling party will move the country towards…
Result ensures Georgian Dream’s control of 150-seat parliament, but it is short of an absolute majority to change constitution. Georgia’s governing Georgian Dream party has won the country’s parliamentary election, says the electoral commission, amid protests from pro-Western opposition that denounced the vote as a “constitutional coup”. With more than 99 percent of the precincts…
Georgia’s opposition is disputing the results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections, which are being led by the ruling party and could determine the country’s chances of joining the European Union and NATO. Georgian Dream, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, received about 54% of the votes, the election commission said after counting more than 99% of the…
New Delhi — BRICS leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, have publicly voiced their commitment to jointly introduce an alternative payment system that would not be dependent on the U.S. dollar. Independent analysts, however, question the feasibility of implementing the idea anytime soon. The recently concluded meeting of BRICS —…
WASHINGTON — Analysts warn that Apple’s removal of two apps from an independent media site from its Russian App Store sets a “dangerous precedent.” The affected apps are for Current Time, a Russian-language network produced by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, in cooperation with VOA, and a Kyrgyz-language news app. RFE/RL and VOA are…
Air cargo tonnages from China to Europe have broadly recovered to their levels prior to China’s Golden Week holiday at the start of October. Asia Pacific to USA total air cargo tonnages continued their recovery in week 42 (October 14-20) from the effects of China’s Golden Week holiday, rebounding by a further four percent WoW,…
Hong Kong’s cycling community have called for more public education about the importance of wearing helmets during the activity, but not all members of the scene have said they agree with the government’s plans to mandate the practice. The Transport Department said authorities were drafting amendments to the relevant legislation and would introduce the proposed…
Georgians will vote in parliamentary elections on Saturday that look set to define whether the mountainous nation that straddles Eastern Europe and West Asia will pivot towards Moscow or Brussels. The geopolitical bifurcation of the country’s politics has been gradually building for years but came to the fore in April, when wide-scale protests broke out….
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Russia is expected to deploy North Korean soldiers to combat as early as Sunday. In a statement posted to his official X social media account, Zelenskyy said the prediction is based on military intelligence he received in a Friday briefing from armed forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Zelenskyy called…
Washington — The 2024 BRICS summit in Russia this week provided Moscow and Beijing with a showcase for their shared anti-West sentiment and global ambitions, but analysts say the war in Ukraine may be fracturing the “no limits” relationship between the two countries. The location of the summit was strategically significant, given international efforts to…