Pope Leo XIV on Friday begins a four-day visit to France, where the Catholic Church's views on abortion and euthanasia run counter to the values of a secular country that recently enshrined abortion in its constitution and gave final approval to a bill establishing the right to assisted dying. 

“The transport sector is showing unprecedented figures. If we compare the data for the first eight months of this year with the same period last year, we have record figures over the past decade in maritime, rail and aviation,” Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Tamar Ioseliani said, speaking about trends in Georgia’s transport sector this year.

Rain is expected again today in most parts of Georgia. According to the National Environment Agency, unsettled weather will continue across the country over the coming days.

Georgia’s National Environmental Agency has issued information about the weather expected in the coming days.

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze says large-scale rehabilitation works are underway on Rustaveli Avenue, with the project causing significant traffic disruption.

Georgian Minister of Education, Science and Youth Givi Mikanadze said that, starting today, delivery of school uniforms for 1st-graders has been launched to the centers where parents will be able to purchase them from 1 to 14 September.

The Educational Resources LLC has published a list of addresses of school uniform sales points where school students across Georgia will be able to purchase uniforms.

Students with suspended status will be granted the right to mobility if their request for status reinstatement is rejected within the higher education reform, and taking into account the restriction on student admissions to certain educational programs at state-founded higher education institutions for the 2026–2027 academic year.

“Our Lord Jesus Christ came down to the earth for us to undergo Transfiguration. To all of us who have come to the church, to those who have come to God, the Lord has given us faith as a reward and not for our merits or any work. He has seen in us the possibility of transformation, that through this faith we will change our lives, our spiritual life will be transformed,” said Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Mtianeti and Mitropolitan of Tskhum-Abkhazeti, His Holiness and Beatitude Shio III, during festive church service at the Samtavro Transfiguration Church of the Nunnery of St. Nino in Mtskheta in connection with Transfiguration of Jesus marked on August 19.

Paris (France) (AFP) – The smell of warm bread hangs in the air at one of Benoit Castel's patisseries in Paris, where the newly crowned world's best pastry chef was hard at work testing new recipes.

The reconstruction project on Rustaveli Avenue in central Tbilisi is actively continuing and is designed to last for decades, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said at today’s meeting of the municipal government.

One of Paris’s main landmarks, the Eiffel Tower, has increased in height by 10 cm due to extreme heat, Nexta Live reports.

Georgian businessman Temur Ugulava has passed away.

The Georgian Education Minister, Givi Mikanadze, presented the government’s ongoing general education reform while speaking in Parliament during an interpellation session.