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A long-awaited solar panel factory is scheduled to begin production in Kutaisi. The project is implemented by German-Mexican company “AE SOLAR,” although the official contract of cooperation has not yet been signed,  GergiaToday reports. The announcement was maide by Soso Nibladze, Executive Director of the Hualing Free Economic Zone. According to Nibladze, this will be the first solar panel factory in Georgia. The factory complex will be located on a 10,000 square meter territory. It will produce 200 megawatt capacity panels. The multi-million dollar project is estimated to employ more than 100 people, and is one of the largest projects in the free industrial zone. Solar panels made at the Kutaisi factory are slotted for export to the United States, Persian Gulf countries, Europe and domestic sale within Georgia.

Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs.  Now their home is full of mud and everywhere they look there's utter devastation in their Florida Panhandle community: fishing boats tossed like toys, roofs lifted off of buildings and pine trees snapped like matchsticks in 249 km/h winds. Row after row of beachfront homes were so obliterated by Michael's surging seas and howling winds that only slabs of concrete in the sand remain, a testament that this was ground zero when the epic Category Four hurricane slammed ashore at midweek. The destruction in this and other communities dotting the white-sand beaches is being called catastrophic - and it will need billions of dollars to rebuild. "All of my furniture was floating," said Ms Marquardt, 67. "'A river just started coming down the road. It was awful, and now there's just nothing ...

BEIJING on Monday celebrated the 69 th  anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China with pomp and pageantry, while across the border in Hong Kong, protests challenging the shrinking political arena took centre stage. A day before the official celebration and flag-raising, President Xi Jinping paid tribute to national heroes at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square in the capital. Xi, China’s most powerful leader since the nation’s founder, inspected members of the two million-strong People’s Liberation Army (PLA). During his visit, he stressed the importance of military strength and war preparedness, highlighting the efforts being made to improve the PLA’s capability to win wars, state-run  Xinhua  news agency reported. On Monday, the guard of honour from the PLA escorted China’s national flag to the flag tower in Tiananmen Square; the same place Chairman Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People’s Republic on the...

Inadequate warning systems, a lack of education about what to do when the quake hit and a narrow bay that channelled the tsunami’s destructive force — a perfect storm of factors spawned the deadly disaster in Indonesia. The massive 7.5-magnitude tremor struck on Friday and sent monster waves barrelling into the island of Sulawesi, leaving at least 844 dead in the seaside city of Palu and surrounding areas. As  victims were buried in a mass grave  and rescue teams struggled to reach remote areas, questions mounted about what exactly happened and if more could have been done to save lives. The tragedy has highlighted what critics say is a patchy early-warning system to detect tsunamis in the seismically-active Southeast Asian archipelago. “There was no information about a tsunami recorded by the tide-monitoring station in Palu because it was not working,” Widjo Kongko, a tsunami expert with the Indonesian government’s technology agency, said. The station keeps a check...