TBILISI -- Mikheil Saakashvili may have successfully retained his presidency, but he still has a mountain to climb in getting the country behind him again.

An exiled Georgian opposition leader who led and financed recent efforts to unseat President Mikhail Saakashvili, has been found dead outside London.

Dozens workers were injured in a night explosion that rocked a sugar dust refinery in Georgia. Waterfront facility burst into flame. Firefighters still were fighting the fire Friday morning. Six people are missing.

Dozens of people have been injured at Imperial Sugar Refinery when an explosion and fire at a sprawling sugar refinery has rattled Savannah suburb in US while no deaths have been reported immediately.

Georgia's parliament has unanimously confirmed Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze's new cabinet as opposition members boycotted the vote.

Following the inauguration of President Mikheil Saakashvili to a second term on January 20, RFE/RL's Georgian Service Director David Kakabadze spoke to Matthew Bryza, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, in Tbilisi about the disputed presidential election, continuing opposition protests, and what he expects to see in Georgia in the coming months.

Mikheil Saakashvili has been inaugurated for a second five-year term as president of Georgia, pledging to bring Tbilisi closer to the West and at the same time repair a deep rift with neighboring Russia.

TBILISI, January 5 (RIA Novosti) - Mikheil Saakashvili has won Georgia's presidential election in the first round with 52.5% of the vote, according to early exit polls organized by Georgian TV companies.

Meredith Emerson went on a hike with her black Labrador retriever Tuesday morning, but friends fear she’s lost.

AKHALKALAK, Georgia (A-Info)--Representatives of Armenian public organization in Samtskhe-Javakheti met with the US Embassy attach? Scott Perish and political affairs director Joy Davis-Kirschner at the Embassy compound in Tbilisi.

Georgian opposition leader Irakly Okruashvili asked for political asylum days before he was arrested in Berlin at the request of the Georgian government, his lawyer said on Friday.

The Georgian opposition is holding a new rally in Tbilisi, urging people to unite against violence. Some 4,000 people have gathered on Rike Square in Tbilisi, in the first mass demonstration after police cracked down on protestors on November 7.