Mladic's Trial Postponed Over "Clerical Error"

Posted in: Editorials, Featured by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague which is judging the case of Ratko Mladic, the ex-Bosnian commander, which is accused of having supervised the massacre of Srebrenica in 1995, had to suspend the case on Thursday, one day after the beginning of the trial, because of the failure to disclose some evidence to [...]

Huge Reserves of Groundwater Found In Africa

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

British Geological Survey and University College London earlier this week brought the good news to the people of Africa and to the whole world as they say that the huge reserves of underground water would change the face of the continent for ever, impacting positively on the effects of climate [...]

Will Britain Ban Crosses On Its Own Union Jack Too?

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 12th 2012 | no comments

British government is determined to argue at the European Court of Human Rights that the Christians be banned to wear crosses and other Christian jewelry at work, a move that would allow employers to sack them if they do not comply with this requirement. The move is already seen by some [...]

Hungary’s Orban Defies European Union: Constitution Takes Effect

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 3rd 2012 | no comments

Tens of thousands of citizens of Hungary attended on Monday night a rally against the prime minister Viktor Orban, demanding of him to resign over the new Constitution, which took effect on January 1, 2012, in spite of criticism from the entire international [...]

German CDU Wants To Bring A Little Democracy To the EU

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 16th 2011 | no comments

The leaders of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, the conservative party leading the coalition in power in Germany, chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, called this week for the direct election of the president of the European Commission, which is the European Union executive [...]

World Fears the 7 Billionth Human Being as Deadly Threat

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 1st 2011 | no comments

A mommy gave birth to a child in the Philippines on Monday, and while the birth of a child must be a celebration of life every time, she had to endure the comments reported by the international media, which were announcing the Apocalypse because the 7 [...]

“Global Revolution” Reaches City of London, Rome

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 17th 2011 | 2 comments

The protest known as “Occupy Wall Street,” which has been going on for weeks in the United States reached Europe on Monday, as people protested in the City of London against what they call the greed of the financial system. The British version of the protest was called [...]

Tymoshenko’s Sentencing Angers Western Countries, Russia

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 12th 2011 | no comments

The sentencing of Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail for abuse of office in concluding a deal with the Russian Gazprom in 2009 was intensely criticized by both Western countries and by the Russians. The Western media and political leaders said [...]

When Dreams Come True

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 27th 2011 | no comments

Watching Susan Boyle singing in duet with Elaine Paige is what a dream coming true looks like, considering that first time she appeared in front of Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell the forty-seven unemployed with a golden voice said she had been dreaming about [...]

Turkish Foreign Minister Speaks of a Turkish-Egyptian “Axis of Democracy”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 19th 2011 | no comments

The Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu offered CNN Turk on Sunday an hour long interview before he embarked for New York City, where he is expected to attend the annual UN General Assembly, in which he outlined the principles of the new order in the restive Middle [...]

Will Palestine Be the 194th State of the World?

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 17th 2011 | no comments

The Palestinians in Ramallah await to become the 194th state member of the United Nations and preparations for the declaration of their nationhood are being made, a few days before the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Palestinian Authority has [...]

The Pope Could Appear Before the International Criminal Court

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 14th 2011 | no comments

The Roman Catholic Church is going through one of the sharpest moral crises in its history as the scandal regarding the abuse of its priests against children has determined some rights groups to demand that the pope and his Church be deferred to the International [...]

On Slavery Nowadays

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 13th 2011 | no comments

A raid of the British police at a site called Leighton Buzzard, north of London, discovered on Sunday 24 people being kept against their will as slaves. Police got to the spot after they were tipped off by someone who had escaped this place. It is considered that up to 28 people already made it [...]

Inquiry Panel Establishes that Iraqi Detainee Was Killed in British Troops Temporary Detention Facility

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 8th 2011 | no comments

An independent inquiry into the way an Iraqi hotel clerk died in the British military custody in 2003 released its conclusions on Thursday. According to them, Baha Mousa was hooded, handcuffed, held in stress positions in extreme hit and filth, dying in a state of exhaustion and fear after [...]

Does “Neo-Ottomanism” Have Anything To Do With Turkey Downgrading Relations With Israel?

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 7th 2011 | no comments

At least three Israeli diplomats are being expelled on Wednesday from the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, following the warning given by Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu last Friday, when he said that the diplomatic relations with Israel would be downgraded to the rank of second [...]

Ties Between Israel and Turkey Deteriorate Further

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | September 6th 2011 | no comments

The relations between Turkey and Israel deteriorated further on Tuesday as the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that all trade ties with the Jewish country would be severed. This harsh measure comes after the UN published a report on the incident on Mavi [...]

Kosovo PM’ Name Mentioned in EU Organ Trafficking Report

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 29th 2011 | no comments

The Kosovo Prime Minister’s case related to organ trafficking reached the highest European commissions, after an international arrest warrant was issued in his name by Serbian investigators under the accusation of trafficking organs harvested from Serbian people during the 1999 war waged [...]

Moscow Grows into a Megalopolis

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 25th 2011 | no comments

Russian plans for the future, quite daring for a country that is said to have a set of difficulties of its own, most of them economic and social in nature, include the Russian Silicon Valley at Skolkovo, a project aiming at the development of the Russian family and increase of natality, [...]

Will Libya Return To Monarchy Or Install Republic?

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 24th 2011 | one comment

As the conflict in Libya is drawing to the end, and it would seem that the governmental forces will have no choice but to lay down weapons at certain point, there are many questions that concern the future of this state. And not necessarily its economic future, which [...]