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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Meeting Between Sudan, South Sudan Cancelled Again

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 3rd 2012 | no comments

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Sudan and South Sudan to resume negotiations “as soon as possible,” in a bid to end a looming conflict, after a series of border attacks last week, which caused the Sudanese president to cancel a meeting in [...]

Meeting Between Israeli, Palestinian Negotiators Announced

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 3rd 2012 | no comments

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Tuesday announced that they are to hold a new set of negotiations in the coming hours or days, in the first meeting after two months since the last encounter in Amman, the capital city of the Jordanian Kingdom. A senior Palestinian [...]

ECOWAS Imposes Sanctions On Junta Regime In Mali

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 3rd 2012 | no comments

The Economic Community of West African States on Tuesday imposed severe financial sanctions on the new regime in Mali, following the expiration of the three-day deadline offered by the common West African body to the junta to restore constitutional order after a coup two weeks ago. On [...]

NKorea To Unveil Missile That Can Hit Targets in Continental America

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 3rd 2012 | no comments

South Korean officials disclosed on Tuesday that the NKorean government is preparing to unveil a huge missile that is capable of transporting a warhead to more than 6,200 miles, being able to hit targets in continental America. The discovery was made by the [...]

Islamist Nomination To Presidential Elections Causes Concern in Egypt

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 3rd 2012 | no comments

The decision made by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to back the presidential candidacy of Khairat el-Shater, the strongman in the group, came as a surprise on the Egyptian political landscape, fueling fears that the military and the Muslim dominant party are cooperating toward [...]

Tensions Spark Between Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan Over Fugitive, Oil Exports

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Iraqi deputy prime minister Hussain al-Shahristani on Monday demanded in a press conference that the Iraqi fugitive Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashemi be surrendered by Qatari authorities to stay on trial under terror charges. The move, that is expected to strain the [...]

Tuareg Seazed the City of Timbuktu, in North Mali

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Junta leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Sunday said that he would reinstate constitution and hand power over to a civilian government as soon as elections can be held. He made these statement as the Tuareg rebels planted flag on the northern Malian city of [...]

Russian FM Protests Against Ultimatum on Syria

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Russian foreign minister on Monday refused to accept the idea of imposing a deadline on the implementation of the six-point plan put forward by Kofi Annan, a move that was demanded by the 83 member states of the group “Friends of Syria” during the meeting last weekend. Speaking [...]

Russian Airplane Crashes in Siberia, 31 Killed

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

A Russian passenger plane on Monday crashed into a snowy field in Siberia shortly after takeover, causing 31 out of the 43 passengers to die. The 12 survivors were hospitalized. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but investigators said evidence pointed to technical [...]

Hungarian President Pal Schmitt Resigned Over Plagiarism Scandal

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Embattled president of Hungary Pal Schmitt on Monday resigned his office after his doctorate title has been taken away from him as a result of the scandal involving accusations of plagiarism that were brought to him since January 2012. His resignation comes after he had hinted on March 30 [...]

Myanmar Opposition Leader Claims Landslide Victory in By-election

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Myanmar pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday claimed a landslide victory for her party in the by-election held on Sunday and announced she hoped that the victory would be the beginning of a new era and a sign of democracy in this Asian country, which would ease the Western [...]

Friends of Syria Recognize SNC As “Representing Syrian People”

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

The “Friends of Syria” group on Sunday officially recognized, in a move that mirrors the way the regime in Tripoli, Libya, was toppled last year, the Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, and promised to offer it the support the [...]

Tuareg Rebels Take Malian Northern Town of Gao

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 31st 2012 | no comments

The Malian rebels on Saturday entered the northern town of Gao, capitalizing on the chaos installed in the country after the coup that ousted former president Amadou Teumani Toure and replaced him with a military junta who promised to intensify the fight with the northern Tuareg [...]

Hungarian President Refuses To Step Down After Plagiarism Scandal

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 31st 2012 | no comments

Hungarian president Pal Schmitt on Saturday announced he would not resign his office in spite of the scandal caused by his stripping of the doctorate degree at the end of an investigation into the originality of his work. Earlier this week, a find-finding committee decided that the [...]

Syria Announces It Has Defeated the Rebellion

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 31st 2012 | no comments

A Syrian official on Friday said that the regime of Bashar al-Assad would not leave the cities and towns where it has cracked down on the unrest until the life returned to normal and the rebels withdrew. A spokesman for the Syrian foreign ministry said that the military in the [...]

Turkey To Reduce Oil Imports From Iran

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 31st 2012 | no comments

Turkey on Friday announced that it would reduce the import of oil from Iran by 20 percent, bowing to the international sanctions imposed by the United States, which have just cleared the way for imposing sanctions on the regime in Tehran, in an attempt to avert the Israeli [...]

Lawyer of U.S. Sgt Robert Bales Complains State Withholds Evidence

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 31st 2012 | no comments

The lawyer of the U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing 17 in a killing spree in Afghanistan, on Friday said that the United States forces have prevented his team from investigating the circumstances of the incident that involved his client. The lawyer John [...]

Obama Authorizes Sanctions Against Iran

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

The White House on Friday announced that the way for sanctions in Iran was clear because the cutoff of Iranian oil would not hurt the world economy. Barack Obama announced that there was enough supply of petroleum products from the other oil producing countries. The move allows the United [...]