September 30, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a final effort this week to salvage a deal from talks to form a unity government with his centrist election rival, he said on Sunday.

As expected, Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz triumphed in Sunday's parliamentary election: his People's Party (OVP) ranked first with 38.4% of the vote, according to Austria's Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs' preliminary voting results.

Both sides, and Georgia’s western partners, hailed the talks as a promising first step. But they were received with skepticism among some in Tbilisi.