Mihai-Silviu Chirila

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  Mihai-Silviu Chirila is interested in international relations and foreign policies, topics about which he is writing on our site. He is 37 years old, has a degree in theology and is a freelancing translator and editor.

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French Police Arrested 19 Suspected Islamist Extremists

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

French police on Friday raided hideouts of suspected Islamist extremists arresting 19 in a campaign promised by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the wake of the Toulouse shooting at a Jewish school, as a result of which 3 children and a rabbi were killed last [...]

Sudan and South Sudan Ready To Resume Talks Amid Clashes

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Sudan and South Sudan are expected to resume negotiations on Saturday, as the leaders of the two countries play down the importance of the violent border clashes since the country split in January 2011. The two countries clashed for two days in an oil-rich zone at the border in the [...]

Hungarian President Expected To Resign Over Plagiarism Scandal

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Hungarian president Schmitt Pal on Friday cancelled all public engagements and is expected to make an announcement about a possible resignation in an address to the Hungarian radio and television, a move that is anticipated by many people in the central European country. The move comes [...]

Afghan Police Officer Kills 9 Colleagues While They Were Asleep

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

An Afghan police officer on Friday killed nine of his colleagues as they were sleeping in the eastern province of Paktika then escaped in a governmental vehicle full of guns and ammunition. The incident is one of the deadliest cases of fratricide in Afghanistan over the last few [...]

Japan Orders the Military To Intercept NKorean Rocket

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Japanese defense ministry on Friday ordered the missile units to intercept NKorean rocket that is expected to carry the satellite that is to be launched into orbit in mid-April and destroy it, if it comes over the territory of Japan. The order made by defense minister Naoki [...]

ECOWAS Threatens Mali With Embargo, Tuareg Takes Malian Key City

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday offered Malian junta a three-day ultimatum to restore the constitutional order or face “diplomatic and economic embargo.” The announcement was made at the end of an emergency meeting of the regional body, which [...]

Thousands Attend Funeral of Tibetan Who Set Himself Alight in India

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Thousands of people on Friday attended the funeral of the Tibetan man who had set himself on fire on Monday in the capital of India, New Delhi, days before a summit of the BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, Indian, China and South Africa, which is attended by the Chinese [...]

Kurds Desire to Obtain Rights in Syria, Walk Out on SNC In Istanbul

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 30th 2012 | no comments

Kurds earlier this week walked out of the Syrian National Council’s meeting in Istanbul as they did not obtain any promise from the leaders of the council that the Kurdish problem would be tackled before the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and autonomy would be granted for [...]

Japan Carries Out Three Death Sentences

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Japanese justice minister on Thursday approved the execution of three inmates after 18 months without any execution approved. Three men who had been sentenced to death were hanged on Thursday, angering the human rights campaigners who were expecting the country to move [...]

Ukrainian Oksana Makar Dies After She Was Raped, Strangled, Burnt

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Ukrainian 18-year-old woman Oksana Makar on Thursday died in the hospital after being raped, half strangled and set on fire by a gang of three men who dumped her then in a deserted place where she was found by motorist and taken to a hospital. The scandalous crime caused hundreds of [...]

Syrian President Supports Annan’s Plan If “Terrorists” Lay Down Arms

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday demanded that the “terrorist groups” lay down arms as a precondition of the application by his government of the peace plan drafted by special U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, which is backed by many western [...]

Turkish PM Holds Talks In Tehran With Iranian President

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday met with the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran, on which occasion he praised the long-standing cooperation between the two countries and the response they have to the “Western arrogance.” The Turkish [...]

NATO Troops In Afghanistan Watched By “Guardian Angels”

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

The coalition troops operating in Afghanistan have been ordered to take extraordinary precautions against being shot by the Afghan troops, including assigning “guardian angels” to keep watch as the joint bases 24 hours a day. The measure means that any time a Western [...]

Pope Benedict XVI Wraps Up Visit to Mexico, Cuba

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Pope Benedict XVI concluded his three-day visit to Communist Cuba, where he met the leaders of the Communist regime, the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, and attended Masses on the occasion of the celebration of the local Virgin of Charity el Cobre in Santiago de Cuba. The [...]

Dalai Lama Receives Annual Templeton Prize

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday was appointed the winner of the 2012 Templeton Prize, three days after Tibetan Jamphel Yeshi set himself on fire in the streets of New Delhi protesting the visit of the Chinese president Hu Jintao to India, where he is [...]

ECOWAS Suspends Mali, Threats With Military Intervention

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Economic Community of the West African States, also known as ECOWAS, on Tuesday demanded the leaders of the coup in Mali to revert to the constitutional order and reinstate president Amadou Toumani Ture, threatening to use force, if necessary, to undo what the coup has done. Ivory [...]

NKorea Is Fueling Rocket To Launch Satellite

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments

Japanese daily Shimbun, citing sources “close to the government in Pyongyang,” on Thursday released the information that North Korea has begun fueling the rocket that is to be launched in mid-April to place a satellite into orbit. According to the source the launch has a high [...]

Violence Continues in Syria In Spite of Accord To Peace Plan

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 28th 2012 | no comments

Syrian troops on Wednesday continued their crackdown on the restive cities and towns in the south and north of Syria, in spite of the announcement made by U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had accepted his six-point plan to [...]