Serbians Elect Tomislav Nikolic President

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 21st 2012 | no comments

Serbia elected on Sunday a new president, nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, who unseated incumbent Boris Tadic in a runoff won by 50.21% to 46.77% according to the latest estimations of the electoral commission which announced preliminary results. Boris Tadic, who had shortened his mandate in order to push [...]

Yemeni President Arrives to Saudi Arabia To Sign Power Transfer Deal

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday flew to Saudi Arabia to sign a deal brokered by the Gulf states by which he would step down from office in exchange for being granted judicial immunity. The Yemeni state television gave no more details about the ceremony, adding that [...]

Turkish PM Asks Bashar al-Assad To Step Down

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 22nd 2011 | no comments

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday lashed out at the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, demanding of him to “leave that seat” for the “welfare of your  people and the region.” In a speech intended to increase the already high pressure on Syria’s [...]

Protests In Egypt Continue, 22 Reported Killed

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 21st 2011 | no comments

Egypt entered on Monday a third day of protest as the military rulers tried to contain an explosion of protest in Tahrir Square and across the country demanding their ouster a week ahead of the general elections. On Sunday, when the military attempted to clear the Tahrir Square, [...]

Qaddafi’s Son Seif al-Islam Captured

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

Libyan Qaddafi family comes into the spotlight again as the National Transitional Council on Saturday announced the capture of Seif al-Islam, the son of Muammar al-Qaddafi, he who was considered by many the heir apparent to his father’s regime. The NTC troops said that he was [...]

Tens of Thousands Protest in Egypt Against the Military Rule

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

Scuffles broke out on Saturday morning in Tahrir Square as riot police was evicting the protesters who spent the night there after the huge protest on Friday, when tens of thousands of Islamists and young activists came to the iconic square to protest against the [...]

Benetton’s “Unhate” Compaign Draws Critics From Vatican

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 18th 2011 | no comments

Benetton clothing company went on with its „fighting culture of hate” campaign presenting Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas locking lips in a picture, following two similar issuances in which other personalities of the world [...]

Syrian Defectors Attack Again A Governmental Location

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 18th 2011 | no comments

Violence continues in Syria after the Friday protests at the end of the weekly Muslim prayer, while French foreign minister Alain Juppe met with the Turkish counterpart and issued a common statement in which they urged the UN Security Council to act as soon as possible. Seven people [...]

Arab League Gives Syrian Regime Three More Days

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

Crackdown continues in Syria as the governmental troops on Thursday have made arrests in the Hama province, where the defectors from the army engaged the security forces in a surge of violence that was deemed by some as the beginning of a civil war in Syria. The raids come [...]

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 [...]

Syrian Defectors Attack Military Base Near Damascus

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

Syrian defectors from the army, gathered in a group called The Free Syrian Army, o Wednesday reported an attack against a military base near Damascus, the first such action in the restive country which has been confronted with a violent uprising for the last eight months. The [...]

Israeli Foreing Minister Lashes Out at “Three-State Solution”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 15th 2011 | no comments

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday rejected the idea of referring to Jordan as Palestinian state, saying that such an idea would place the security of Israel in danger. Speaking in front of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Lieberman said that [...]

Mario Monti Is the New Prime Minister of Italy

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

Italian President Giorgio Napoletano on Sunday appointed the economist Mario Monti, former European Union Competition Commissioner, to form a new government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday night. Berlusconi stepped down after three terms in office, and economic [...]

Opposition Demands Expulsion of Syria From Arab League

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

Syrian opposition on Friday demanded the Arab League to take action against the regime in Damascus as it failed to honor the proposition it had committed itself to a week ago, when it agreed to pull out its troops from the streets of the restive cities, to in initiate [...]

UN’s Admission Committee Split Over Palestinian State Bid

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 10th 2011 | no comments

UN Admission Committee on Thursday announced that it has been unable to agree on whether to recommend the admission of Palestine as the 194th state or not, a move that comes a week after the UNESCO assembly was able to agree on the theme and received the state of Palestinians as full [...]

Greek PM To Step Down, Unity Government To Be Installed

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

Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou on Sunday night announced his imminent resignation from the governmental office, so that a national unity government be established to carry out the country through the economic crisis it is in. Papandreou’s action comes under pressure from the [...]

Israeli President Confirms Attack on Iran “Soon”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 5th 2011 | one comment

An US military official on Friday expressed concern that Israel may attack the Iranian nuclear facilities without informing the United States. In an interview for CNN the official said that in the past the American military was sure to receive a warning from Israel in case it [...]

Greek Prime Minister Calls Off Bailout Referendum

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 4th 2011 | no comments

The Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou on Thursday announced that the referendum on the bailout package was being called off, a few days after he had said that the Greek people had the right to decide on the new debt deal. As the European countries reacted [...]

Israel Said to Prepare to Attack Iranian Nuclear Facilities

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 3rd 2011 | no comments

Iran comes back into the spotlight after a few months, when the world was more preoccupied with the Arab Spring and the economic crisis, as the United States proposes tougher sanctions against Iran and Israeli people responded to a poll that they would support a strike against Iranian [...]