Georgia's prime minister has said fierce political rival President Mikheil Saakashvili is not exempted from interrogation "if prosecutors find it necessary," without elaborating.

Two Georgian Orthodox Church clerics have been charged in connection with antigay violence that broke out last week in Tbilisi.

In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests."

The arrest of Vano Merabishvili, Mikheil Saakashvili's most powerful ally, appears to tighten the noose around the weakened Georgian president, who has seen his support base crumble since Bidzina Ivanishvili's rise to power last October. But observers in Georgia say the arrest may also be a response to a vicious religious crackdown against gay-rights groups – and a sign that Ivanishvili's true rival is no longer Saakashvili but the church.

The FBI says a man being questioned in the Boston bombings probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.

The Georgian government of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is seeking to change the dynamic of Tbilisi's relationship with the breakaway region of Abkhazia. And the mostly ethnic-Georgian population of Abkhazia's Gali district is once again feeling the squeeze.

A former prime minister of Georgia has been ordered to be held in jail for two months until his trial on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office.

Authorities in Georgia have arrested former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili and former Health Minister Zurab Chiaberashvili.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has withdrawn its recognition of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.