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A Sunday, June 14, 2015, file photo of people assisting a hippopotamus that has been shot with a tranquilizer dart after it escaped from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Tinatin Kiguradze, File)

Georgia flood: Runaway tiger kills man in Tbilisi after water damages zoo

By Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili - Associated Press

A volunteer throws a bucket to another volunteer as they clear the mud at a house after Sunday's flooding, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

All lions, tigers accounted for in Georgia zoo flooding

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Illustration on the lack of effective U.S.foreign policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CARSON: Rudderless U.S. foreign policy

By Ben S. Carson

Illustration on Vladimir Putin by Graff, Dagbladet, Oslo, Norway

GORDON: Russia plays its own game away from the World Cup

By J.D. Gordon

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, May 12, 2009, file photo, Eduard Shevardnadze, former Georgian president and ex-Soviet foreign minister, speaks to The Associated Press in Tbilisi, Georgia. Shevardnadze died Monday, July 7, 2014, at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, file)

Shevardnadze, ex-Georgian president, dies at 86

By Misha Dzhindzhikhashviili - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto take part in a friendly ice hockey match in Igora resort near in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Vladimir Putin wants to reclaim Finland for Russia, former adviser says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Bo Callaway, former Georgia congressman, Army secretary and Callaway Gardens founder dies

Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Russia’s neighbors shiver amid Putin’s Cold War moves in Ukraine

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Gov. Deal outlines severe weather response plans

Associated Press

An protester jumps from an army armored vehicle maneuvering in the street outside Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, with Ukrainian flag at right, as protests continue against fugitive Ukrainian President Yanukovych. Ukraine put its police on high alert after dozens of armed pro-Russia men stormed and seized local government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea region early Thursday and raised a Russian flag over a barricade. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

White House to Putin: ‘Avoid provocative actions’ in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, speaks to reporters in Chattanooga on Feb. 15, 2014. (Associated Press)

Sen. Bob Corker is worried Russia will invade Ukraine, Obama has no plan

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Georgia’s P.M. Irakli Garibashvili eyes NATO membership, while keeping Russia at bay

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a speech on climate change on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Jakarta. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)

Lawmakers want Kerry to take a stand on Georgia’s NATO membership

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Georgia: Olympic guests must not visit Abkhazia

By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI - Associated Press

Georgian athletes land in Sochi for Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A television studio is set up in front of the Bolshoy Ice Dome, where the ice hockey will be held, ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Georgians make rare flight to Olympics in Sochi

Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BAKURIA: Ukraine borrows Georgia’s murderous playbook

By Tsotne Bakuria

UEFA: Russia, Georgia end soccer standoff

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FOR STORY GEORGIA LUGER - In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 David Kumaritashvili, father of the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili killed during a training run at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, stands at the grave of his son in Bakuriani, Georgia. David Kumaritashvili laments that his country will have no one competing in the luge event when the games get under way next month in nearby Sochi. His son, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died when he lost control of his sled at nearly 145 kph (90 mph), flew off course and slammed into a steel pole. He was 21 and preparing to compete in his first Olympics halfway around the world in Vancouver, Canada. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Luge dreams live on in family of Georgian who died

By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI - Associated Press

Prescription overdose summit planned for Atlanta

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