Two Western Journalists Killed in Homs, Syria

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 22nd 2012 | no comments

Two journalists were reported on Wednesday killed in the Syrian city of Homs, as shells hit the restive city since Tuesday in a bid of the government to eliminate “the terrorist groups.” 16 other people were reported killed during that attack on Tuesday, and many were wounded. There are [...]

16 Killed In Homs As Syrian Government Shells The City

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

Syrian forces on Tuesday has intensified the shelling on the city of Homs, causing 16 people to die and scores to be injured in what seems to be an operation of the government to wipe out “the terrorist groups,” as the Syrian government said two weeks ago, when it started bombing the [...]

Election In Yemen Marks the End of Saleh’s 33-Year Rule

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

Yemenis went to polls on Tuesday to vote for the formal ouster of the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in a move which is seen as highly atypical for an Arab country, and hardly a democracy exercise, since the only candidate was Vice President Abdel Rabbo Mansur al-Hadi. Even so, the [...]

Thousands of Afghans Protest Incidental Burning of The Quran

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

About 2,000 Afghan people took to the streets on Tuesday protesting an incident that happened at an U.S. military base, when Qurans and other Islamic religious materials were burnt during a trash disposal. The incident caused the highest-ranking American [...]

DSK Appears Before Investigators In New Sex Scandal

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

Domenique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and former potential candidate to the presidency of France, appeared on Tuesday in front of the police investigators in a case related to a hotel prostitution ring. According to French law, he could be detained for 48 hours [...]

Eurozone Finance Ministers Offer Greece Second Bailout

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

Eurozone countries committed themselves on Monday to offering Greece a new 130 billion euro bailout, which would avert a catastrophic default in March, when the country’s payment is due. In order to obtain the consensus on Greece, the finance minister of the 17 countries convinced the private [...]

Putin Promises $772 Billion For Military Upgrading

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

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday announced that his country will invest $770 billion in strengthening the Russian army and upgrading its technology, the largest sum proposed to be spend since the Cold War in the 1980s. The promise comes as the prime minister is two weeks [...]

SKorea Holds Military Drill, NKorea Does Not Retaliate

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

South Korean military on Monday conducted live-fire drills near disputed border with North Korea in spite of the threats made by Pyongyang to retaliate with a “merciless” attack. North Korea did not retaliate, but tension remained high because the Americans are expected to [...]

U.S. Army Advises Israel Not To Attack Iran Yet

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

The United States on Sunday advised Israel to hold its plan to strike the Iranian nuclear sites and offer international sanctions more time to work. The advise was delivered by United States Army chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, who said that the United [...]

Two Iranian Warships Arrive in Syrian Port of Tartous

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

China accused on Monday the Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria, while two Iranian ships docked in a Syrian port, raising tensions in the region, as the president Bashar al-Assad presses on with the crackdown against the population which has been protesting against his rule [...]

The Netherlands To Delay Ratification of ACTA

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 16th 2012 | no comments

The Netherlands imposed this week a delay in the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA, as the people in the country and across the continent protest the controversial document and accuse it of limiting the freedom of expression on the [...]

Kosovo Serbs Reject Pristina’s Rule Through Referendum

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 16th 2012 | no comments

Serbs living in the northern part of the Kosovo province rejected the rule of the Albanians through a referendum which was criticized by both Serbia and the European Union. By the referendum, the Serbs living in Kosovo rejected by 99.7% the rule of the authorities in Pristina in [...]

Sarkozy To Run for a Second Term In Office

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 16th 2012 | no comments

French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday officially launched his bid for a new term in office during an interview with French television, when he said he wanted to propose the French people new solutions for the economic crisis France and Europe are facing right now. Sarkozy is [...]

Greek Finance Minister Says Some Eurozone Countries Want Greece Out

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Wednesday announced that there were several countries in the eurozone which wanted Greece out and would oppose the idea of continuing to bail it out of the severe economic problems it is confronted to. The statement comes the day the [...]

Doctored Video Showing Putin On Trial Scores 2 Million Views in One Day

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

A video was circulated in Russia on Wednesday allegedly presenting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a cage inside a courtroom, where he was read charges of theft of state property, financial fraud and abuse of office. An accusation of attempt to stage a terrorist act in [...]

Bulgaria Says “ACTA La Vista, Baby!”

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

Bulgaria on Wednesday announced that it is halting the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA, a controversial document which is said by many internet users to limit the freedom of expression on the web and to collapse the development of the [...]

Iran Tests Domestic-made Fuel Rod For Nuclear Reactor

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

Iran presented on Wednesday its progress in nuclear energy development as it announced it loaded domestically-produced fuel rods into research reactors, a move the national media hailed as a major advancement in the nuclear program. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced [...]

China Appoints Official In Sichuan To Contain Unrest

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

The Chinese government on Saturday appointed Liu Zuoming, former head of the Sichuan province justice bureau, as Communist Party secretary of the Aba prefecture, thus showing its determination to contain the string of protests that have been happening in Tibet for the last past [...]

UN General Assembly To Vote on a Resolution on Syria

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 15th 2012 | no comments

Syrian opposition on Wednesday reported that governmental warplanes flew over the embattled city of Homs and blew up a oil pipeline, as France is resuming its idea of creating “humanitarian corridors” in the Arab country, and announced on Wednesday that negotiations would be [...]