Egyptian President-elect to Appoint Woman, Christian Vice-Presidents

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments

Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday announced that he would nominate six vice-presidents, including a woman and a Christian, in a bid to keep his word to be a president to all Egyptian. The move is also perceived as a step toward ending the reign of the military, which is [...]

Tax Evasion Case Against Yulia Tymoshenko Adjourned

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 26th 2012 | no comments

Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday did not appear in court, where she is to answer to charges of evading taxes 15 years ago, motivating that she was not in a health condition that would allow her to stand on trial. Yulia Tymoshenko is already serving a [...]

Mohammed Morsi Wins Egyptian Presidency

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

Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Morsi on Monday said in an interview published by the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars that his country will work toward closing ties with Iran, while preserving its international obligations, a promise The Jerusalem Post considers a reference to [...]

Paraguay’s President Impeached By Senate Resigns

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 23rd 2012 | no comments

The President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, on Saturday announced that he would step aside from office after the Senate of the country impeached him by a swift impeachment trial on Friday. Lugo, former leftist priest, said he deemed his removal from office as a blow to democracy in his [...]

Greek PM Antonis Samaras Sworn In, Cabinet To Be Announced Soon

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 21st 2012 | no comments

Greece has a new government as the leaders of the New Democracy, PASOK, and smaller Democratic Left agreed to support in the parliament a coalition capable of taking the country out of the crisis it is in. The new prime minister sworn in on Wednesday is New Democracy [...]

Julian Assange Seeks Political Asylum In Ecuador

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 20th 2012 | no comments

The founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, on Wednesday demanded political asylum at the embassy of Ecuador in London, days after the UK Supreme Court dismissed his appeal to reopen the case and avert extradition to Sweden. Assange fears that an [...]

U.N. Secretary General Presses America To Accept Iran in The Group of Contact for Syria

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 19th 2012 | no comments

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday pressed the United States into admitting Iran to the broader group of negotiation on Syria, a move which is considered to improve the chances of solving the crisis in the restive country and decide the fate of its [...]

Greeks Vote in Favor of Remaining in the Eurozone

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 18th 2012 | no comments

Greece has voted on Sunday to continue their bailout arrangements as the New Democracy emerged as winner of parliamentary election and the other pro-Euro parties scored enough to be able to form a government coalition. New Democracy came first with 29.6 percent and 129 seats in the [...]

U.N. Peacekeeper Chief Herve Ladsous: “Syria Is in a State of Civil War”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 14th 2012 | no comments

News about Syria sinking into civil war have come over the past few days as the negotiations for peace seem to have failed on all fronts. The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday announced that the Syrian governmental forces are systematically killing [...]

Israel Condemns Violence in Syria, Speaks of “Axis of Evil”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 11th 2012 | no comments

Israel has spoken about the violence in Syria on Sunday, condemning it as the result of the work of a “axis of evil” composed by Iran, and pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon, which are assisting the regime in Damascus in its fight against their own population. The statement, [...]

Egypt Attempts to Create a New Constituent Assembly

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 9th 2012 | no comments

Egypt is attempting to set up a new constitutional assembly as the parliament speaker on Friday has asked for nominations for the body which is expected to deliver the country a new constitution a week before the 80-million nation will know who the president is. The previous [...]

U.N. Observers Attempt To Visit Alleged Massacre Site, Syrian Forces Shell Homs

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 8th 2012 | no comments

United Nations observers attempt for a second day on Friday to enter the Syrian site where a massacre was reported on Thursday, after the Syrian authorities barred their way the day before amid calls from the international community for more drastic steps against the regime in Damascus, [...]

Israel To Build 851 Housing Units in the West Bank

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 8th 2012 | no comments

Israeli authorities on Thursday announced that 851 housing units would be built in the West Bank, a move which was considered immediately by the United States as an action which is “undermining the peace process.” The Housing Minister said that the Jewish state would break ground [...]

United Nations To Discuss New Action In Syria Amid Reports of a New Massacre

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 7th 2012 | no comments

Activists in Syria accused on Thursday the Syrian troops and the militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad of another massacre in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer, where they say that 78 people were killed, an information which has not been independently confirmed due to the difficult [...]

Pro Russian-Language Bill Passes In Ukrainian Parliament

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 6th 2012 | no comments

Thousands of Ukrainians took it to the streets of Kiev on Tuesday, as the Russian-language supporting bill passed in the parliament of the country, offering the opportunity to the Russian-speaking population of the country, up to some 17 million, according to the [...]

Sudan and South Sudan Resume Negotiations In Ethiopia

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 5th 2012 | no comments

Sudan and South Sudan on Monday started a fresh round of negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in an attempt to solve their differences about oil revenues and borders. It is the first round of talks since the flare-up in April which brought the two neighboring [...]

Hosni Mubarak’s Sentencing To Live in Prison Causes Many In Egypt To Protest

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 4th 2012 | no comments

Thousands of Egyptians took to the Tahrir Square in anger on Saturday night as the word got out that former president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in the events that led to his ouster in January and February 2011. The people protest [...]

Chinese Security Forces Detain Hundreds in Tibet’s Capital

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 31st 2012 | no comments

Chinese authorities are said to have rounded up and detained hundreds of residents and pilgrims in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, in the wake of the two self-immolations which occurred there a few days a go, in a move marking the first such protest in the heavily guarded capital of the [...]

Obama’s Poor Wording Sparks Flare-Up with Poland

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 30th 2012 | no comments

A diplomatic scandal broke out on Tuesday between Poland and the United States, as the American president spoke, during the Medal of Freedom ceremony, about the “Polish death camps,” a mistake which caused the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to react angrily to what he deemed an [...]