Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines carried nearly 2.4 million passengers in April. The company added 12 new destinations to its flight network, reaching 320 worldwide.

In April 2021, US$514,344,164 (UAH 14.2 billion) in national currency and US$ 1.1 B (UAH 30.6 billion in foreign currency) were attracted to the state budget of Ukraine as a result of the sale of domestic government bonds.

SOCAR Trading, a member of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), will participate as an operator in the export of oil products to Ukraine by Russia's state oil company Rosneft.

A total of 3486.5 thousand tons of waste was generated in Azerbaijan in 2020. 25% of the waste was used for obtaining energy. The use of household waste produced 200.6 million kWh electricity during 2020. 24.6% of waste resources generated by industry and other sectors were used as raw materials.

Facebook lost a legal battle Friday with Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over a European Union privacy decision that could result in the social network being forced to stop transferring data to the U.S.

As of May 14, 81,076 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Georgia, which is 2.1% of the country's population. The vaccination process in Georgia started on March 15 with the AstraZeneca vaccine, after which the Pfizer vaccine was added to the vaccination process.

According to Medea Janashvili, Acting Head of the Tourism Administration, by 2021, Georgia has selected mainly neighboring countries and the Persian Gulf countries, Israel and Europe, as priority countries for tourism. In these markets, money will be spent on tourism marketing this year.

A major US fuel pipeline has reportedly paid cyber-criminal gang DarkSide nearly $5m (£3.6m) in ransom, following a cyber-attack.

US tech giant Amazon is to go on a hiring spree in the UK as online shopping continues to boom in the pandemic.

Online booking platform Airbnb is predicting a travel rebound "unlike anything we have seen before" after seeing a big jump in holiday bookings.

The boss of the US tech giant IBM has said a computer chip shortage could last another two years.

McDonald’s is raising the hourly wages for its U.S. company-owned restaurants as the fast-food chain looks to hire 10,000 workers for those locations.

According to the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili, the universal internalization project will continue in Kobuleti. As he said at the presentation of the universal internet project in Guria, in a few years the project will be implemented in 1000 settlements and up to 500 thousand people will have access to the Internet.

In his speech within the framework of the Minister's Hour format, the minister focused on the efforts made to enhance the Defence Forces' potential. ''For this purpose, we plan to purchase more RPG in cooperation with the US,'' the minister said.

The first phase of the project will be completed in 2022, which will cost 22.4 million GEL. According to the project, soldiers can buy apartments in these residential buildings at a subsidized price - $ 100 per square meter.

"Ice climbing is not cheap for a Georgian citizen, but for Europeans and Americans it is a completely acceptable price, especially compared to the Alps or Everest, "- said the head of the Association of Mountain Guides.

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