A court in Georgia on Wednesday sentenced a local shepherd to life in prison for killing a US couple and their four-year-old son in a mountainous region of the country last year.

Georgia said on Wednesday it had detained two people for handling and trying to sell $2.8 million worth of radioactive uranium-238, which can be developed into nuclear bomb material.

Georgia on Sunday swore in its first female president, Salome Zurabishvili as opposition parties continue to denounce her election as fraudulent and demand snap parliamentary polls.

Georgia's presidential election will go to a second round runoff between two of the country's former foreign ministers after no single candidate won outright in the first round of voting ...

Georgians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a figurehead president in a vote seen as a crucial test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party.

HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi has met with Georgian Minister of Environment Protection and Agriculture Levan Davitashvili.

Georgia's Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze appointed Giorgi Kobulia as economy minister and Ivane Machavariani as finance minister on Thursday as he forms a new government after taking office last month.

Rehan Ali Syed stressed that residents pursued their travel itineraries even when the blockade was imposed on June 5 last year.

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili announced his resignation Wednesday after a series of mass protests highlighted a dramatic drop in his government's popularity.

Hundreds gathered in the centre of Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Saturday to protest armed police raids on two nightclubs and to demand the resignation of the prime minister and interior minister.

Five people were killed when a military cargo plane crashed near an airport outside Savannah, Georgia, the US state's Air National Guard confirmed.

Several thousand people marched through central Kiev on Sunday to protest against the detention of Ukrainian opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili and call for the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko.