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 [...]

Taiwanese President Takes Office, Promises Close Ties with China

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

Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated on Sunday after winning a new term in the office in January to Democratic Progressive party candidate Tsai Ing-wen, in the first campaign the analysts say not to have been about the ties with China but about the realities of Taiwanese [...]

Bomb Goes Off In Brindisi, Kills 16-Year-Old, Wounds Five

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

A bomb went off on Saturday in front of a girls’ school in Brindisi, killing a 16-year-old student and wounding at least five others, fueling fears that Italy may go back to the epoch of violence which shook the country decades ago. The bomb exploded as the students were preparing to [...]

Car Bomb Kills Nine, Wounds 100 In Syrian City

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

A car bomb went off on Saturday in front of Syrian intelligence post in the city of Deir al-Zor killing nine, and wounding 100 according to the state-run agency SANA, the same day the chief of the U.N. observer mission in Syria said that the mission itself cannot stop the [...]

Group of Eight Talks About Iran, Syria, Euro Crisis

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

Group of Eight summit, which started on Friday at presidential resort of Camp David, Maryland, focused during its initial session on the need to determine Iran to halt its nuclear project and to tackle the Syrian situation more seriously, so that a solution can [...]

Israeli PM Says Iran Show No Sign of Ending Nuclear Program

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

The Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said on Friday, during a visit to Czech Republic, in Prague, that Iran had no intention to halt its nuclear program. The statement comes days before a meeting of the permanent members of the UNSC plus Germany with Iran is expected to be [...]

Syrian Forces Open Fire on Aleppo Protesters

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

Syrian security forces on Friday opened fire against the protesters in Aleppo, the second-largest city and an economic hub of Syria, wounding several of them. The protests on Friday are the most important in this northern city since the Syrian revolt started, given that up until now [...]

ECOWAS Soldiers Arrive In Guinea-Bissau, In Standby for Mali

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

About 70 ECOWAS soldiers from Burkina Fasso were deployed on Thursday in Guinea-Bissau as part of a 600-troop party which is expected to replace the Angolan troops stationed in Guinea. The ECOWAS troops are expected to oversee a transition to democratic rule in a country which was the stage [...]

Iran Snubs The Bahrain-Saudi Arabia Union

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

Iran summoned on Friday Bahrain ambassador in Tehran after the foreign minister of the tiny island nation accused the Islamic republic of meddling in its internal affairs. The move comes after the Bahraini Foreign Ministry warned Iran not to interfere in the proposed plan of [...]

David Cameron on Eurozone: “Time to Make or Break”

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

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday warned the European countries that it was “make or break time” for the European currency, and that he would do whatever was in his powers to make sure that Britain does not have to suffer as a result of the turmoil that engulfs the [...]

Syriza Leader Alexis Tsipras Snubs European Union, Angela Merkel

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Greek left-wing Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras on Thursday lashed out at the European Union and Angela Merkel, accusing them of “playing poker” with the lives of the Europeans by their austerity measures. Syriza is expected to become the first party in Greece after the election [...]

Turkey Accuses Israeli Jets of Breaching Turkish Cypriot Air Space

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Turkish military officials on Thursday accused that an Israeli plane has been violating the air space of the Turkish Cyprus earlier this week causing the Turkish air forces to scramble two jets to chase the Israeli plane away. According to a report issued by the Turkish air [...]

Bashar al-Assad Says in Interview Country Under Terrorist Attacks

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday offered an interview to Russia 24, a state-run television station, in which he said that the country was under attack from terrorist groups backed by foreign powers, denying that he had much domestic [...]

U.S. Plan For Possible Strike Against Iran “Fully Available,” Ambassador Says

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Days before the Iranian talks on nuclear program are expected to begin in Baghdad, the United States ambassador to Israel announced that his country has completed its plan for a possible military strike against Iran and that the option is now “fully available.” Ambassador [...]

NATO Invites Pakistan at Meeting on Post-War Afghanistan

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

The NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday extended an invitation to the NATO meeting in Chicago to the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in a move to bring Pakistan closer to the decision-making process related to the situation in Afghanistan as [...]

Liberian President Says Witnesses Threatened, Coerced, Paid By Prosecution

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

Liberian former president Charles Taylor on Wednesday said that witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial which found him guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes but cleared him of the accusation of having ordered crimes he was convicted of. Taylor, [...]

Ugandan Army Captures Kony’s General Caesar Achellam

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

Uganda announced at the beginning of the week that it has captured one of the most important members of the Lord’s Resistance Army, coming a step closer to capturing the leader of the movement, Joseph Kony, who has been under an international arrest warrant since 2005, and was [...]

U.N. Observers Under Syrian Rebels Protection After Attack on Them

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

United Nations reported on Tuesday that a convoy of U.N. unarmed observers was victim of a roadside bomb blast near the city of Hama, and that the vehicles were damaged but the observers were not harmed. The Syrian activists accuse the government of having killed 20 mourners who were [...]

Greek President To Appoint Caretaker Govt

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

Greek president Karolos Papoulias is expected to meet with the leaders of the parties in order to appoint a caretaker prime minister who will organize the snap elections called for June after the political parties were unable to decide on forming a government following the election on [...]