The Georgian government will undertake additional measures to help ethnic minority groups to learn the Georgian language, which will further foster their integration process, President Saakashvili said on December 22- Civil Georgia reports.Saakashvili was speaking at a meeting with the

Prime-Minister of Turkey Grigol Mgaloblishvili has left for Turkey on Tuesday morning.As BLACK SEA PRESS was told in the Government Chancellery, Georgian PM is expected to meet with the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gul. Reception with participation of the diplomatic

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has announced during a working visit to the town of Bereza, Brest Region, that the Belarusian parliament intended to consider an issue of recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after the New Year.

ArmInfo. In Karabakh Defence Ministry they have disproved the information about the death of the Azerbaijani civilian as a result of the cease-fire regime violation.'This is a regular lie disseminated by the Azerbaijani party for the propagandist purpose and for

ArmInfo. Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 308 drams for 1 dollar, 427 drams for 1 EUR and 10,3 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 310 drams for 1 dollar,

ArmInfo. Commission for Protection of Economic Competition stopped the administrative proceedings on two claims by 'Protection of Consumers' Rights' NGO against ArmenTel CJSC (brand Beeline). The first claim was connected with problems of Hi Line service users because of traffic

ArmInfo. VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT), announces that today the Company's representatives visited special kindergarten for children with autism located at 21 Saryan street in Yerevan. As the company's press-service reported, the kindergarten operates year round

ArmInfo. Parliament of Armenia adopted a Bill on the All Armenian Bank in the first reading with 103 votes 'for', 3 votes 'against' and no 'abstention' Wednesday. Central Bank Chairman Artur Javadyan declared that the bank will have a status

ArmInfo. Turkish initiative of Caucasian Platform is untimely, ex-president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze says in an interview with iamik.ru. 'To speak of peace in the Caucasus, it is necessary to establish relations of Azerbaijan and Armenia i.e. to settle the

ArmInfo. Armenian metallurgical company Armenian Copper Programme (ACP) may receive the first tranche to $50 mln from the Russian VTB Bank in 2009, ACP Director Gagik Arzumanyan told ArmInfo. He said the Company is currently negotiating with the bank for

ArmInfo. 'Consumer Protection' organization urges victims of 'ArmenTel' and its GPRS service not to keep silence.As Head of the organization Abgar Yegoyan said at today's press-conference in "Pastarq" club, there was an advertising of GPRS-roaming placed on the site of

ArmInfo. The allegations by Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Spokesman Eldar Sabiroghlu regarding the fate of Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mamedov look silly and groundless, Armen Kaprielyan, the Head of the Working Group of the Armenian State Commission for POWs, Hostages and the

An Australian is arrested at Cairo airport after ancient Egyptian animal mummies are found in his luggage, reports say.

Into Bethlehem as pilgrims gather for Christmas

Militants in the Gaza Strip fire mortars and rockets into southern Israel, in retaliation for the killing of three men on Tuesday.

Australia says it will not apologise to a man wrongly detained on terrorism charges as it could affect his compensation claim.

Pilgrims stream into Bethlehem and the Pope celebrates Midnight Mass, as most of the Christian world marks Christmas.

Monday, September 22, 2008 (Day 1)I arrived in New Delhi on American Airlines Flight 292 from Chicago, completing the first leg of my journey to the recently discovered crashsite in Arunachal Pradesh, where my uncle and his seven crewmates were

Both the Pakistani Army and the Jihadi organisations like Tehrik-e-Taliban & Jamaat-ud-Dawa have confirmed that they will participate in a war against India. Statistically we are looking at more than 70% of worlds Jihadist and their Pakistani Army supporters. Al