Worried Georgians Mourn Prime Minister
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Georgians bid farewell Sunday to late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died three days earlier in a friend's apartment, amid worries for the future of their struggling country and doubts about the official explanation of his death.
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Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania is found dead in a Tbilisi flat, apparently from gas poisoning.
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BATUMI, Georgia  - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili shrugged off on Monday Moscow's harsh reaction to the arrest of four Russian army officers for spying, that fueled a crisis in relations between the two ex-Soviet states.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - The prime minister of  ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas  poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail  Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent  country.
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Former prime minister Baroness Thatcher is   "greatly saddened" by the death of Augusto Pinochet.
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Hundreds of mourners turned out Wednesday for the funeral of Japan&#39;s corruption-tainted farm minister, who committed suicide, as political woes widened for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Bangalore, Dec 24 - The Chief Minister, N Dharam Singh, several Union and State Ministers, MPs and political leaders have expressed grief over the death of the former Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.
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Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead Georgia's revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, died early Thursday in a friend's apartment from what officials claimed was an accidental gas leak from a heater.
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A stunned nation was in mourning Tuesday, with stores closed and troops at intersections to prevent violence, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose death raised fears that Lebanon might revert to the political violence of its 1975-90 civil war.
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Large crowds in Hungary attend the state mourning ceremony as the nation buries legendary footballer Ferenc Puskas.
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Mourners prepared on Sunday for the first funerals of 330 people killed in the bloody battle that ended the siege of a southern Russian school on Friday -- but others did not know if loved ones had survived.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief yesterday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
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Thousands attend the funeral of an ethnic Albanian youth killed by a Serbian border guard, raising fears of civil unrest.
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Georgians voted on Saturday in a presidential election expected to hand the former Soviet state's leader a narrow win, but opponents accused him of rigging the poll and threatened street protests.
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Shaken Georgian leaders urged calm after Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead in a friend's apartment, a blow to President Mikhail Saakashvili's ambitious pledges to wipe out corruption and resolve two simmering separatist conflicts.
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British police launched a major investigation Wednesday into the "suspicious" death of a wealthy Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet republic.