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Batumi hosts Youth Regional Forum 2025
Georgia Online
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July 25, 2025
Batumi, Georgia: The Chairman of the Youth Organization “Georgian Dream”, Giorgi Chakvetadze, took part in the event related to the opening of the forum and addressed the participants of the project. The event will be held on July 24-26, 2025, in...
Georgia denies entry to person with no gender marker in passport, accuses them of ‘falsifying’ ID
Open Caucasus Media
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July 25, 2025
Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...
Tbilisi Mayor Kaladze ‘would expel’ EU Ambassador in Georgia if it were up to him
Open Caucasus Media
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July 25, 2025
Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...
New Front in Eurasian Geopolitics: Attacking the Church is to silence Armenia’s most influential voice
Dispatch News Desk Pakistan
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July 29, 2025
By Dr Shazia Anwer Cheema The crackdown on the Armenian Apostolic Church is not an isolated incident. Precedents have already been set in Donbass, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporozhia, where the Orthodox and canonical churches have been cancelled or...
PM Ali Asadov met with Georgian Minister of Education, Science and Youth
APA
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Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov met with Minister of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia Givi Mikanadze on July 25, Press Service of the Cabinet of Ministers told APA. During the meeting, it was noted that...
“Baku’s goal is to subjugate Armenia to Azerbaijan”: views from Yerevan
JAMnews
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July 28, 2025
Armenian analysts comment on Hajiyev’s interview In an interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, reiterated Baku’s preconditions for signing a peace treaty: amending Armenia’s...
Official defends Lopez concert amid criticism
PanARMENIAN.Net
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August 5, 2025 - 11:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of the Armenian Prime Minister’s Office Arayik Harutyunyan has responded to criticism regarding the organization of the recent concert by global pop icon Jennifer Lopez in Yerevan. In a Facebook...
What property do Georgian Dream members own in Europe? Transparency International report
JAMnews
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July 29, 2025
Properties of Georgian Dream Members in Europe According to a report by Transparency International Georgia (TI), amid possible suspension of the visa-free regime between Georgia and the European Union, leaders of the ruling Georgian Dream party,...
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'Greatest female chess player of all time' Judit Polgar hails Divya Deshmukh, Indian chess after Women's World Cup history
Firstpost
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July 29, 2025
Judit Polgar, who is considered the greatest female chess player of all time, and world No.2 Hikaru Nakamura celebrated Divya Deshmukh’s historic Women’s Chess World Cup win on social media and pointed out the rapid growth of Indian chess. read...
Divya Deshmukh’s FIDE win at FIDE Women’s World Cup and a turning point in Indian women’s chess
The Indian Express
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July 29, 2025
Over the span of 25 days in Batumi, little cracks started to appear in China’s dominance of women’s chess. A nine-woman contingent made its way from China to the Georgian city to try and win the FIDE Women’s World Cup, only to see two Indians —...
‘Historic Win’: Sachin Tendulkar Hails Divya Deshmukh on Winning India’s First FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025
Latestly
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July 29, 2025
Mumbai, July 29: Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday congratulated Divya Deshmukh on becoming India's first FIDE Women's World Cup champion in Batumi, Georgia. The 19-year-old Divya stunned the chess world by winning the FIDE Women’s...
Ukraine defeats Russia and reaches World Fencing Championships top eight for first time since 2013
Ukrainska Pravda
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Alina Poloziuk, Olha Sopit, Daria Myroniuk, Khrystyna Petrova. Photo: Ukrainian Fencing Federation Ukraine’s women’s foil team reached the top eight at the World Fencing Championships in Tbilisi in Georgia on 28 July for the first time since 2013....
'Historic Win': Sachin Tendulkar Hails Divya Deshmukh On Winning India's First Women's WC
MENAFN
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July 29, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday congratulated Divya Deshmukh on becoming India's first FIDE Women's World Cup champion in Batumi, Georgia.The 19-year-old Divya stunned the chess world by...
Georgia Hodlick Mixdorf
GMToday - Wisconsin
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WAUKESHA Georgia Hodlick Mixdorf Aug. 2, 1946 — June 14, 2025 Georgia Hodlick Mixdorf, aged 78, went to be with the Lord on June 14, 2025, in Waukesha, WI. Born on August 2, 1946, Georgia dedicated her life to serving the Lord, as well as others,...
Palestinian activist killed by settlers, more deaths in Gaza despite 'humanitarian pauses'
Asia News
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July 29, 2025
Today's headlines: ‘Calm’ on border after Thailand and Cambodia military delegations agree ceasefire;. At least 30 dead in Beijing due to heavy rains and flooding; Singapore ups number of postgraduate courses in Mandarin for Chinese students;...
Observers warn Africa of Russia's growing influence on the continent
The Standard
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Burkina Faso's junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore arrive for talks in Moscow on May 10, 2025. [AFP] As the popularity of Burkina Faso interim president Ibrahim Traore spreads across the African continent, a...
Yet more Brit drug mules caught as pair, 19 & 21, jailed for 6 YEARS after being found with 150lbs of cannabis in case
The Sun
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August 5, 2025
TWO young Brits have been jailed for six years each for smuggling nearly 70kg of cannabis out of Thailand stashed in their luggage. Tihaise Darlin Elisha, 19, and Taylor Tamara Simone, 21, were swooped on by staff at an airport in Zimbabwe in May...
From no norms to Grandmaster: Divya Deshmukh becomes India’s 88th GM and fourth among Indian women
The Times of India
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Nagpur's Divya Deshmukh, 19, has become India's 88th Grandmaster after winning the Women's World Cup in Batumi. She bypassed the traditional norm-and-rating route, achieving the title directly due to her victory. Previously an International...
Levan Sanikidze: Not even Aleko Elisashvili, let alone Dimitri Gelovani, can change the voters' perception that the October 4 election is a Russian special operation aimed at granting legitimacy to Ivanishvili
Inter Press News
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Irakli Kobakhidze and Bidzina Ivanishvili must answer why they placed those parties in second and third place which are participating in their legitimacy games. Who actually believes that the GORBI poll is neutral? — Bidzina Ivanishvili wants to...
Geopolitical tensions in the South Caucasus
Meer
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July 28, 2025
The South Caucasus has long been, and still is, a geopolitical chessboard where regional and global powers compete for influence. Historically, the Russian and Ottoman Empires vied for control over this strategically significant region and its...