Thousands of young Georgians leave the country each year in search of better economic opportunities, with many moving west.

As questions grow over Georgia’s European path, I spoke to people who have emigrated about what it would take for them to return.
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The U.S. military has established a new unit to stop Iran transporting advanced weapons systems via its land borders and the Caspian Sea.

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While the economies of several major Gulf countries have contracted in 2026 amid the fallout from the Iran war, #Oman is on course to grow by 4.1 per cent this year.

How has it managed to defy the downturn?

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While the economies of several major Gulf countries have contracted in 2026 amid the fallout from the Iran war, Oman is on course to grow by 4.1 per cent this year.

How has it managed to defy the downturn?

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While the economies of several major Gulf countries have contracted in 2026 amid the fallout from the Iran war, Oman is on course to grow by 4.1 per cent this year.

How has it managed to defy the downturn?

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Boss Jon Harris blames publisher ‘greed’ for the closure and warns freelance court reporters are 'facing extinction' pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/wir…

Kyrgyzstan has emerged as Central Asia’s fastest-growing economy, fuelled by a construction boom, public investment and trade linked to Russia.

But with Western sanctions tightening, can the country sustain its rapid growth?

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Kyrgyzstan has emerged as Central Asia’s fastest-growing economy, fuelled by a construction boom, public investment and trade linked to Russia. But with Western sanctions tightening, can the country sustain its rapid growth?

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Why is Georgia’s ruling party trying to ban five opposition parties?
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Why is Georgia’s ruling party trying to ban five opposition parties?
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Why is Georgia’s ruling party trying to ban five opposition parties?
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It is an extraordinary failure that the BBC has the resources to do genuine public interest journalism that is much less viable commercially (from foreign correspondents to long-form local reporting) but instead we get relentless lowest common denominator nonsense

A selection of stories on the front page of the BBC News app this morning.

Georgia's young people keep leaving. What would bring them back?
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- 19yo with disorder that makes him prone to blood clots
- ⁠calls an ambulance with symptoms typical of a blood clot in the lungs
- ⁠blood test to rule out blood clot not performed
- ⁠discharged with antibiotics
- ⁠reattended A&E later same day coughing up blood (red flag for blood clot). Discharged again.
- ⁠saw GP a week later who sent to A&E as had obvious symptoms of blood clot
- ⁠discharged with no investigation for blood clots from A&E again as doctor “forgot” to refer to be admitted for tests
- ⁠attended later same day as symptoms worsening. WAS actually admitted but communication so poor and kept in waiting room on a chair after “admission” that he didn’t realise he’d been admitted and went home to sleep.
- ⁠died next day at home

His life would have been saved with a simple blood test at any of the FIVE separate encounters with medical professionals.

Asma al-Assad: She grew up in London. Her husband ran Syria. Why has the UK never prosecuted her?

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In 2021, British prosecutors reportedly decided against pursuing war crimes charges against Asma al-Assad, then First Lady of Syria, because she was unlikely to return to the UK.

While the family have barely been seen in public since their move, reports have appeared in the media that she is seeking to divorce Bashar and return to London, where she was born and raised.

With five years now passed and Asma's circumstances conclusively altered, will the UK ever prosecute Asma al-Assad?
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