Georgia

Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the U.S. Army's grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on August 17.

The two, along with 94 men, passed the 62-day leadership course, which teaches students "how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead Soldiers during small unit combat operations," it said in a statement. 

Georgia?s main electricity grid and 15 hydro power plants are for sale by their owner Czech privately-held Energo-Pro, the company said on Aug. 12.

Energo-Pro runs Geortia?s largest grid with 51 percent market share and over a million customers, the hydro plants with 480 MW capacity and a 110 MW gas-fired plant.

Former US president Jimmy Carter said Aug. 12 that recent liver surgery has shown he has cancer, and that it has spread.

The 39th president, now aged 90, underwent an initially successful operation earlier this month to remove a "small mass."  

A controversial prosecutor who led probes into alleged coup attempts has fled to Georgia with a colleague after an arrest warrant has been issued on both judiciary figures for attempting to overthrow the Turkish government with the corruption investigations of 2013.

Turkish police seized 3.5 million packs of smuggled cigarettes, worth 22 million Turkish Liras, at the Sarp border gate in trucks crossing into Turkey from Georgia.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of pop legend Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26 aged 22, six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.

Serbia's football team will be in Group D of European qualifications for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in the Russian Federation.

Serbia will compete with Wales, Ireland, Austria, Moldova and Georgia, a draw held over the weekend in St. Petersburg has decided.

Georgia's Gardabani 230-megawatt gas combined cycle plant, built with Turkish involvement, started operating on July 22.

The $220 million facility, located 39 kilometers south of the capital Tbilisi, will meet about 15 percent of the country's electricity needs.

The foreign ministry of Georgia issued on Wednesday a note of protest to Russia over the illegal installation of banners marking the so-called "state border" of the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko have agreed to resume flights between the capitals of their respective countries, media outlets report.

The development comes as President Plevneliev is on a visit to Kiev Tuesday and Wednesday, the first trip of a Bulgarian head of state to Ukraine in the past 12 years.