Author: Babken Lazarashvili

Multiple accidents have shut down parts of Interstate 75 in Marietta Sunday. Officials with the Marietta Police Department tell FOX 5 that two multi-vehicle accidents happened simultaneously shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday. The first accident happened in the southbound lanes of I-75 just before the S Loop. Officials all but one lane are closed while crews work at the scene. The second accident happened on the S Loop of South Marietta Parkway just east of I-75. Most of the west lanes have been shut down. Officials have not said what caused the accidents. STEP traffic investigators have been called to…

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s annual inflation is expected to average at around 5.8% in 2024, the country’s central bank said. Projections for 2024 and 2025 suggest a positive outlook on inflation trends, which will contribute to the general improvement of the economy, Bosnia’s central bank said in press release on Thursday, citing data collected in a December survey. However, inflation trends remain influenced by both internal and external factors, leading to variations in the projections not only within the country itself but also on a global level, the central bank noted. The survey respondents projected an average inflation of 5.5% in…

“They will have to decide what costs them more: to lose one or more of these A-50s or to continue to see their combat aircraft and S-400 units progressively degraded,” a Ukrainian expert told Breaking Defense. UK MoD Defence Intelligence reported Nov. 17 that Russia’s Aerospace Forces (VKS) are increasingly risking their most advanced Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, the Beriev A-50U, to identify enemy airborne targets in Ukraine airspace. The A-50U (NATO Codename MAINSTAY-D) features a 30-foot diameter rotating radar dome similar to the well-known US Boeing EA-3 Sentry AWACS. Accordingly, it can detect and identify enemy aircraft at longer ranges…

“I had to go to the public hospital because I ran out of money. Every time I go to the state hospital, I regret it.” Zaur Aliyev is a diabetic. He says that when he felt ill two years ago, doctors at the three public hospitals he visited for check-ups could not diagnose him accurately. Then he underwent an examination a private clinic and was found to have diabetes. According to him, after that he lost trust in public hospitals. For almost two years he was treated at his own expense and during this period he never went to a public…

Russian forces have ramped up attacks in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to gain ground near two key front line cities, Ukrainian military officials said Sunday. Moscow’s troops have begun a push to regain territory near Bakhmut, the eastern mining city that was the site of the war’s bloodiest battle before falling into Russian hands in May, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian troops had recaptured the heights over Bakhmut and made some advances west, north and south of the city since Kyiv launched its summer counteroffensive. “Toward Bakhmut, the Russians have become more active…

A Georgia Senate committee recommended on Tuesday that the state abolish its requirements for permits to build health facilities, setting up a renewed push on the issue after a debate in the 2023 legislative session mushroomed into a House-Senate standoff. The conclusion was little surprise after Republican Lt. Gov Burt Jones appointed many committee members who wanted a full or partial repeal of Georgia’s certificate of need rules. “What we heard pretty consistently in our work around the state was that access to health care is being constricted by these existing laws,” state Sen. Greg Dolezal, a Cumming Republican and Jones ally, said…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday for talks with regional counterparts, his ministry’s spokeswoman has confirmed. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported earlier that the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia had been invited for the talks. “We confirm Lavrov’s planned talks in Tehran on Monday,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the TASS and RIA news agencies. The talks come amid tensions over the Middle East and unresolved disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which launched a lightning offensive against Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh last month. Armenia later confirmed that its…

“Threats to murder elected officials should never be tolerated,” no matter their political affiliation, the Republican lawmaker said. A Georgia man was arrested on charges of threatening to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia confirmed to NBC News on Friday. Sean Patrick Cirillo, of Macon, has been charged with using his phone to threaten Greene, R-Ga., and her staff. The news was first reported by CNN. According to senior law enforcement sources, Cirillo allegedly called Greene’s office twice on Wednesday, threatening to kill her. Cirillo was arrested by the FBI and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Thursday that it was not an “external” attack that crashed the plane carrying Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin in August, but hand grenades within the aircraft. Speaking at the Valdai Forum in Sochi, Putin said the “chairman of the investigative committee just reported a few days ago that the fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the victims. There was no external influence on the plane, it is an established fact.” Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin, was among the 10 people on board the private plane which crashed in a field…

Nearly $75,000 is up for grabs for information leading to the capture of four men who earlier this week escaped through a damaged window and a cut fence at a central Georgia jail. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office added $20,000 to the combined rewards from the FBI, Macon Regional Crime Stoppers and U.S. Marshals Service to bring the total amount to $73,000, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday. “Everyone from the Bibb Sheriff’s Office and our law enforcement partners is focused on recapturing these fugitives,” Sheriff David Davis said. “We ask that anyone having information about these wanted individuals to make the call…