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 [...]

Gunmen Attack Syrian Pro-Gov’tal TV Channel, 7 Die

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments

The U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan is expected to convene a high-level meeting on Syria in Geneva on Saturday at a time when the level of violence in Syria is said to have surpassed the intensity before the six-point ceasefire plan proposed by him went into effect in [...]

Turkey PM Warns Syria Against Future Border Incidents

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

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned Syria against any aggressive activity at the long common border, alluding that Turkey will retaliate at any perceived provocative action against it, following an incident last Friday, when a Turkish air jet was shot down [...]

Greek PM Proposes New Finance Minister

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

New Greek government is already looking for a new finance minister days after the rest of the government was sworn in as incumbent finance minister Vassilios Rapanos filed his resignation on Monday, and was let to go by the prime minister Antonis Samaras. Vassilios Rapanos is the [...]

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 [...]

NATO Council To Hold Talks Over the Downing of Turkish Jet By Syria

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

NATO on Monday announced that it would hold emergency talks on Tuesday over the downing of a Turkish plane by the Syrian anti-aerial batteries over the weekend but a decision on the matter is not expected to be made in the sense of a military intervention in retaliation against [...]

Tunisian President Says Libyan Ex-PM’s Extradition “Illegal”

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

The president of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, on Monday called the extradition of the former Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi by his country “illegal,” contending that the former Libyan official, the first to b extradited and appear in a trial in his country, was [...]

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 [...]

Turkey Promises To Retaliate After Syria Shoots Down Turkish Military Jet

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

Turkey promised to offer Syria a “necessary” response after Syrian forces downed one of its military jets in the Mediterranean, near the sea border, the president of Turkey Abdullah Gul promised on Saturday. It was not clear to which sort of response Gul was referring, though he [...]

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 [...]

Norwegian Prosecution Calls For Breivik To Be Declared Insane

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

Prosecution in Norway on Thursday demanded in their closing argument at the trail that Anders Behring Breivik be considered insane, prompting prosecutor Svein Holden to say that Breivik should be placed in psychiatric care, not in prison, though the reports about his health condition are [...]

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 [...]

Russia Denies Carrying Helicopters to Syria

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

The owners of the Russian cargo ship whose insurance coverage was revoked by the British authorities and was returned from the waters of Scotland denied accusations that it was involved in illegal activities of carrying helicopters to Syria, as the media reports were announcing on [...]

Greek Parties Ready To Form Pro-Bailout Coalition

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

The Greek centre-left parties on Wednesday agreed to back the New Democracy party in its effort to form a new government but are reluctant to placing their political leaders in governmental offices, as the new government is expected to face a bitter struggle to bring economy to a normal [...]

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 [...]

Supreme Court Disqualifies Prime Minister of Pakistan, Orders Him to Leave Office

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

Supreme Court in Pakistan on Tuesday demanded that prime minister Yusaf Raza Gilani be “disqualified” as prime minister and removed from office, following a case of contempt of court earlier this year as he refused to revive a case of corruption against incumbent president Asif [...]

Muslim Brotherhood To Join Mass Rally In Cairo Against the Military

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

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday challenged the appropriation by the military council of presidential prerogatives days after the presidential elections on June 16 and 17, which the Brotherhood claims to have won. The Brotherhood announced it would join the mass [...]

Seven Turkish Troops Killed By PKK Rebels

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

Seven Turkish soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an attack of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which staged a coordinated attack with rocket launchers and rifles against military outposts in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq. The Turkish troops said that the PKK rebels crossed [...]

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 [...]