Georgia advances ‘foreign agents’ bill as 20,000 rally against it | Politics News

Georgia advances ‘foreign agents’ bill as 20,000 rally against it | Politics News

The ruling party suddenly reintroduced the bill earlier this month, after mass protests forced its withdrawal last year. The Georgian parliament has advanced a controversial “foreign influence” bill through its first reading, as thousands joined a third day of anti-government protests. The bill, first presented early in 2023 and withdrawn…

Lawmakers brawl as Georgian Parliament considers ‘foreign agent’ bill | Politics News

Lawmakers brawl as Georgian Parliament considers ‘foreign agent’ bill | Politics News

Legislators debate bill requiring organisations that accept overseas funds to register as foreign agents or face fines. Lawmakers in Georgia have come to blows inside parliament as ruling party legislators appeared likely to advance a bill on “foreign agents” that has been criticised by Western countries and has caused protests…

Protests called as Georgia revives controversial ‘foreign agents’ law | Protests News

Protests called as Georgia revives controversial ‘foreign agents’ law | Protests News

The country’s governing Georgian Dream party says the law will be passed before parliamentary elections in October. Pro-democracy groups have called for protests after Georgia’s governing party said it will revive the controversial “foreign agents law” that mass demonstrations forced it to drop last year. The governing Georgian Dream party…

Ukraine, Poland, Georgia: Which teams have qualified for Euro 2024? | Football News

Ukraine, Poland, Georgia: Which teams have qualified for Euro 2024? | Football News

Ukraine, Poland and Georgia are the last three teams to qualify for the 24-team continental championship. Ukraine came from behind to beat Iceland in a playoff to qualify for Euro 2024, Poland secured their place at the tournament with a penalty shootout victory over Wales and Georgia qualified for a…

‘Thrown like animals’: Georgians identify victims in Stalin’s mass graves | Human Rights

‘Thrown like animals’: Georgians identify victims in Stalin’s mass graves | Human Rights

Batumi, Georgia – Natalia Kuznetsova stares tight-lipped at the abandoned house her grandfather Hasan Dishli Oglu built in the 1930s. Her father was just a toddler in 1937 when Hasan, then 33, was arrested by the Soviet secret police. He was never heard from again. “When my father was dying, in…

I dig up skeletons of Stalin’s victims to give families closure | Close Up | Crimes Against Humanity

I dig up skeletons of Stalin’s victims to give families closure | Close Up | Crimes Against Humanity

“When you open a gravesite, the bodies, how they are organised, they tell the stories by themselves… they can tell us about how they disappeared, how they were killed,” says forensic anthropologist Meri Gonashvili. Gonashvili is a woman on a mission. Through detective-like work, the young Georgian anthropologist at Tbilisi…

Fani Willis, accused of affair with Trump prosecutor, vowed to not date staff in 2020
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Fani Willis, accused of affair with Trump prosecutor, vowed to not date staff in 2020

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is accused of having a clandestine relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to bring charges against former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, promised in a 2020 interview that she would not sleep with her staffers. Willis is under…

Ex-wife says Georgia prosecutor filed for divorce a day after being hired by Fani Willis as affair rumors swirl
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Ex-wife says Georgia prosecutor filed for divorce a day after being hired by Fani Willis as affair rumors swirl

Nathan Wade’s ex-wife claims he filed to divorce her just one day after he was hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – his alleged paramour – to be lead prosecutor in the Georgia election fraud case against former President Donald Trump, according to court documents filed Friday.  Wade…