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Georgian woman, 130, is 'world's oldest person'

A woman from a remote mountain village in Georgia is turning 130, making her the oldest person on Earth, officials in the former Soviet republic said.

A spokesman for the national register said Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born on July 8, 1880.

Authorities visited the woman on Thursday in her village of Sachire and displayed two Soviet-era documents noting her date of birth as indicated in her birth certificate, which had been lost....



Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)