Georgia and Ukraine drew 1:1 in their fifth-round meeting of the UEFA Nations League group stage. The match was played in pouring rain at Adjarabet Arena in the Georgian Black Sea coast city of Batumi. Ukraine opened a 1:0 advantage when Georgia's Saba Kvirkvelia scored an own-goal in the seventh minute of the match.
But the hosts equalized when Georgiy Mikautadze netted in the 76th minute of the match. Final group-stage matches are scheduled for November 19, when Czechia hosts Georgia and Albania hosts Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Georgian Service, click here .
Joe Biden met Chinese President Xi Jinping for the last time as U.S. president on November 16, with the leaders' goal of lowering tensions before Donald Trump's inauguration challenged by fresh conflicts over cybercrime, trade, Taiwan, and Russia.
Biden and Xi huddled on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima, Peru as they began their first talks in seven months, according to Chinese state media. Washington is incensed by a recent China-linked hack of the telephone communications of U.S.
government and presidential campaign officials, and it is anxious about increasing pressure by Beijing on Taiwan and Chinese support for Russia. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is planning to stop in the U.S.
state of Hawaii and maybe Guam on a sensitive visit that is sure to anger Beijing in the coming weeks. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on November 16 that there remains a.