The US and Germany have announced a deal to allow the completion of a controversial Russian gas pipeline to Europe without the imposition of further US sanctions.

ADY Express LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways, has carried out a record number of cargo shipments on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway this year, Report informs, referring to the company.

In the beginning of July 2021 Super Almond with the support of the USAID Agriculture Programme has organized a weeklong training for Georgian almond growers. Dr. Gurreet Brar – Super Almond expert and a professor at the California State University, Fresno – has led the training and the field demonstrations in almond orchards in Eastern Georgia. Dr. Brar has shared his impressions and views on the developing Georgian nuts industry exclusively for EastFruit.

Georgia received 15 thousand doses of AstraZeneca as a gift from Lithuania. The vaccines arrived at Tbilisi Airport on July 24, 2021.

Almost 32 billion GEL will be spent on infrastructure and regional development in the coming 10 years. It was announced by Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia at the presentation of the 10-Year Development Plan of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (MRDI).

The process of immunization and the need to expand access to vaccines were discussed during today's meeting of the Interagency Coordination Council chaired by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at the Government Administration.

Pfizer 0.5 million doses of vaccine arrived in Georgia. There are doses that Georgia received as a gift from the US government.

The German government has declared Spain and the Netherlands, as well as Georgia high incidence areas this Friday, meaning that most travellers will face new rules and restrictions when returning from both countries.

The latest results from the European Union (EU) labour force survey show that employed foreign citizens are more likely than nationals to be over-qualified for their job.

Turkey's furniture exports increased by 35% to reach $2 billion in the first half of 2021 versus the same period last year.

Israel is about to become the first country in the world to test the oral COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oramed Pharmaceuticals, the company's CEO Nadav Kidron told The Jerusalem Post.

There are enough coronavirus vaccines in Armenia, the Ministry of Health assures. Residents of the country can get vaccinated for free at any clinic or mobile station on the streets. However, there are not too many local residents who want to get vaccinated as opposed to foreign tourists. Many Iranians have started to choose Armenia as their vacation spot in order to get vaccinated for free.

Rik Daems, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to make a working visit to Georgia on 27 and 28 July 2021.

As the athletes take the podium and, with a slight bow, have their medals placed around their necks they will be happy to have landed in the top three. For the people behind the Tokyo Medal Project, they'll be happy that those Olympic medals are there in the first place.

Operations worth AZN 8,520.6 million were conducted in the securities market of Azerbaijan from January through June, up 73.3% from the same period last year.

Europe's medicines regulator has recommended approving the use of Moderna's Covid vaccine in 12- to 17-year-olds, paving the way for it to become the second shot approved for adolescent use in the European Union.

The Minister of Health, Ekaterine Tikaradze, said today that the epidemic situation in the country could already be given the status of a fourth wave.

The national currency strengthened as a result of the July 23 trade. The change in the exchange rate against the US dollar was 1.91 tetri, as a result of which the official value of the dollar became 3.1000 GEL.

Raising a family can be one of the biggest challenges of many people's lives, as raising and caring for children can result in a great expense and drain on personal resources.

Russia's central bank increased its key interest rate to 6.5% on Friday to curb stubbornly high inflation and indicated that further rate increases were possible even after the 100 basis point hike, its sharpest since late 2014.