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Romanian female athlete Madalina Bianca Molie won a silver medal and a bronze medal on Wednesday in the women's 71-kg category of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Senior Championships in Batumi, Georgia. Molie won the silver for a 101-kg snatch, underperforming Russian Anastasia Romanova's 112-kg snatch.

Romanian female athletes Loredana Toma and Irina Lepsa won together six medals, three gold, two silver and one bronze medal, on Tuesday, in the 64-kg category of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Senior Championships in Batumi, Georgia.

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A fire at a luxury hotel in the Georgian Black Sea resort city of Batumi left 12 people dead and a dozen others injured, officials said on Nov. 25

Turks from the Black Sea region have been flocking to Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi to gamble and enjoy the city’s nightlife.

Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos will make a six-hour walk outside the ISS space station where he has been since April.

NASA TV will broadcast live the cosmonaut’s trip. The broadcast is schedule to start at 17:00 (Athens time) on Thursday 17 August.

A Greek-flagged vessel ran aground in Turkey's Dardanelles Strait for unknown reasons on July 18, a source from Turkey's ship traffic authority said.

The "Kriti Sea" ship, a 183-meter-long (600-foot) vessel, reportedly ran aground off the cape of Nara, said the source from the Turkish Straits Vessel Traffic Service.

Turkey's state-run Ziraat Bank will offer services in neighboring Georgia under a new institution called JSC Ziraat Bank Georgia, it announced on May 2.        

Enver Yücel, the head of the executive committee of Bahçeşehir Uğur Educational Institutes, is a leading name in the sector. He is an entrepreneur who has been active in the sector for almost 40 years with both domestic and international investments. 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will pay a one-day visit to Georgia on March 15, according to Turkish Prime Ministry sources. 

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Yıldırım will travel to the coastal Georgian city of Batumi in the evening after addressing a public rally in the Turkish Black Sea province of Artvin.