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Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shake hands as they join Trump, sign agreement at peace summit
ABC 30 - California
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August 8, 2025
WASHINGTON -- The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands as they joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday for a peace summit where they signed an agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict. The two countries in the...
Russia Faces a New Equation in Syria: Shibani’s Visit Opens the Door to Negotiation
The Syrian Observer
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August 3, 2025
The recent visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani to Moscow signals the beginning of a new chapter in Russia–Syria relations. No longer the undisputed powerbroker it once was under the Assad regime, Russia now finds itself navigating a...
Entertainment events this week in Coastal Georgia: Aug. 3-9
Coastal GA News - Georgia
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August 3, 2025
Cosby H. Johnson, Mayor of City of Brunswick | City of Brunswick websiteCosby H. Johnson, Mayor of City of Brunswick | City of Brunswick website Catch the best entertainment Coastal Georgia has to offer this week. The following entertainment...
Entertainment events this week in East Central Georgia: Aug. 3-9
EC Georgia News
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August 3, 2025
Bennish Brown, President/CEO of Destination Augusta | Destination Augusta websiteBennish Brown, President/CEO of Destination Augusta | Destination Augusta website Catch the best entertainment East Central Georgia has to offer this week. The...
U.S. Embassy: “The ‘Agile Spirit’ exercises clearly demonstrate the United States’ commitment to the stability of the Black Sea region, as well as the strength and importance of allied cooperation”
Inter Press News
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U.S. Embassy: “The ‘Agile Spirit’ exercises clearly demonstrate the United States’ commitment to the stability of the Black Sea region, as well as the strength and importance of allied cooperation.” “The exercises clearly demonstrate the United...
Trump to Meet with Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to Sign US-Brokered Peace Deal
CBN News
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August 8, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are expected to sign a peace deal Friday at the White House that could potentially put an end to decades of conflict, President Donald Trump said. Trump said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...
In Georgia, a police officer’s cheek ranks above all
Open Caucasus Media
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August 8, 2025
The Caucasus is changing — and not for the better. With authoritarianism on the rise across the region, the threat to independent journalism is higher than ever. Join our community and help push back against the hardliners. Become a member It was...
A timeline of Vitesse's demise: From Russian oligarchs to death sentence
Tribal Football
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Vitesse have officially lost their professional football licence, but how did it get this far? From fighting for the Eredivisie title and beating Tottenham Hotspur in Europe to disappearing from the Dutch professional football landscape: this is...
Trump to meet leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign U.S.-brokered peace deal
The Hindu
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August 8, 2025
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are expected to sign a peace deal on Friday (August 8, 2025) at the White House that could potentially put an end to decades of conflict, President Donald Trump said. Mr. Trump said Armenian Prime Minister...
Saakashvili: Georgian Dream seeks to destroy the state and deprive people of their homeland
Georgia Today
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August 8, 2025
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in a social media post, accused “Ivanishvili’s talking puppets” of making statements aimed at “destroying the Georgian state” and leaving its people without a homeland. He called for “an unrelenting,...
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke talk queer noir film ‘Honey Don’t!’
Rough Draft Atlanta - Georgia
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August 8, 2025
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Ukrainians deported by Russia to Georgia provided with food and medicine
Ukrainska Pravda
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Stock Photo: Getty Images The Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia has reported that measures have been taken to provide food, essential items and medicine to Ukrainian citizens stranded in the buffer zone at the Georgian border. Source: Radio Liberty,...
A list of the Facebook posts that led to fines under Georgia’s ‘government insult ban’
Open Caucasus Media
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August 8, 2025
The Caucasus is changing — and not for the better. With authoritarianism on the rise across the region, the threat to independent journalism is higher than ever. Join our community and help push back against the hardliners. Become a member In...
Three things Europe wants as leaders prepare to meet Trump
CNBC
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August 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Alaska meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, U.S., August 15,2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters LONDON — Three goals...
Trump’s Secondary Tariff Deadline Targets Nations Trading With Russia
[your]NEWS
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August 8, 2025
President Donald Trump unveils tariffs Friday on countries that continue commerce with Russia, with potential consequences for key U.S. trading partners China and India. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom President Donald Trump is executing a new round of...
Erasing August: How Russia Rewrites Georgia’s Story
Coda Story
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August 7, 2025
On August 7, 2008, Maguli Okropiridze, almost nine months pregnant, fled her village of Ergneti in the Georgian region of South Ossetia. For Maguli, who had become used to a life lived in the backdrop of bullets and artillery shells, it took a...
Trump will meet Friday with leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign US-brokered peace deal (World)
Castanet Kamloops
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August 8, 2025
Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press - Aug 7, 2025 / 5:37 pm | Story: 565567 Photo: The Canadian Press In this photo provided by the Azerbaijan's Presidential Press Office on Thursday, July 10, 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right,...
A Wound Still Bleeding: 17 Years After the Russia-Georgia War
Kyiv Post
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August 7, 2025
Seventeen years have passed since Russian troops invaded Georgia. On the night of Aug. 7, 2008, Russian regular army units crossed the internationally recognized border into Georgian territory. Although the Kremlin continues to promote the...
Troopers: 1 dead, 2 injured following Beaufort County crash
WJCL TV - Georgia
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August 18, 2025
Troopers: 1 dead, 2 injured following Beaufort County crash One person is dead and two others are injured following a head-on crash in Beaufort County. THAT'S A LOOK AT SPORTS KEEP IT HERE. TODAY AT SIX -- A HIGH PROFILE MURDER CASE RETURNS TO THE...
Thousands of South Ossetia residents gather in memory of 2008 Tskhinval defenders
TASS
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August 8, 2025
TSKHINVAL, August 8. /TASS/. More than 4,000 residents of South Ossetia attended a solemn event to honor the memory of those who defended the republic’s capital Tskhinval during the Georgian aggression in August 2008, a TASS correspondent...