Russia and China Veto Resolution on Syria Again

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 6th 2012 | no comments

Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a new resolution on Syria, which had been proposed by the Arab League and was endorsed by the European states and the United States. On Sunday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that the veto his country cast on the resolution was to be blamed [...]

Hamas and Fatah Form Unity Government

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

The leaders of the Palestinian rival factions Hamas and Fatah on Monday announced that they have formed an interim unity government, which is to be led at first by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority. The move comes at the end of talks the leader of [...]

Tens of Thousands Rally Against Putin A Month Before Polls

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

Tens of thousands of Russians are reported by Fox News to have rallied on Saturday in the streets of Moscow in protests against Putin’s regime, defying the temperatures that have dropped below zero Celsius degrees. The organizers estimate that some 120,000 attended the rally, which is [...]

Gazprom To Meet the European Demand For Gas

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

Russian gas monopoly OAO Gazprom on Saturday announced that it would “do its best” to meet the increasing demand of gas from the European countries, as a freezing winter has swept many of the eastern European countries, with temperatures reaching 30 Celsius [...]

Russia Says “Scandal” Could Happen At UNSC Over the Resolution on Syria

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

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov warned with a “scandal” if the Arab League resolution draft gets voted on Saturday, Russian Itar-Tass news agency announced. Lavrov said that his country has formulated amendments to the proposed draft, and that they were presented [...]

Leon Panetta Fears Israel Will Attack Iran in Spring

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 3rd 2012 | no comments

International press reports that Leon Panetta, the US Defense Secretary, expressed fear that Israel would hit Iran before summer, that is in April, May or June, before the Islamic country enters a “zone of immunity,” where it can produce its nuclear weapon undisturbed. British [...]

Putin Lashes Out At Anti-Missile Shield in Eastern Europe

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 3rd 2012 | no comments

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States and its NATO allies of aiming their defense missiles at Russian territory, in spite of the assurances that they wouldn’t do that. Speaking for a program called The Cold Politics, Vladimir Putin said that the [...]

At Least 73 Die, 1,000 Injured On Egyptian Soccer Stadium

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 1st 2012 | no comments

At least 73 people died and 1,000 were injured on Wednesday in a stampede on a soccer stadium in Egypt, in what is by far the most tragic sports event in the history of Egypt, as people rushed into the pitch at the end of a soccer game. The tragedy occurred in the [...]

Russia Promises Not To Allow Sanctions on Syria

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 1st 2012 | no comments

Russia on Tuesday warned the European, Arab countries and the United States not to cross the “red line” toward Syria, stressing out that it was not the United Nations’ job to determine who comes and who goes out of office in the restive country. The Russian position was [...]

French Lawmakers Appeal Constitutional Council To Invalidate Genocide Denial Law

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

Over 70 French lawmakers demanded that the anti-genocide law which was punishing the denial of the Armenian genocide at the end of the WWI be declared by the highest court in France unconstitutional. They appealed on Tuesday the court in an attempt to overturn de vote in the Senate, [...]

Sarkozy Opposes Trusteeship For Greece, Merkel Supports His Bid For a New Term in Office

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

French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday said that Greece is the only one to handle and implement its austerity measures, rejecting the idea that the government of the country that lives on bailouts needs more oversight. The allegation of the French leader comes [...]

China Tightens Up Security To Contain Tibetan Protests

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

Chinese authorities are said to have tightened the security measures in Tibet in an attempt to prevent any violence from occurring after a week in which at least three Tibetan people were killed in clashes with the security forces. Herald Tribune reports that while [...]

World Leaders To Convince UN Security Council To Act on Syria

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

The international community is mobilizing on Tuesday to convince the U.N. Security Council as the Arab League leaders will show the council what its mission had found in the restive country. The Arab League chief Nabil el-Araby will support a resolution drafted by Morocco, which [...]

Pentagon Press Secretary Explains What Leon Panetta Said About Pak Involvement in bin Laden Case

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

The American Defense Ministry is trying to make sure that the ties between the United States and Pakistan do not deteriorate again following the comments made by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who said a few months ago in an interview broadcasted by CBS on Sunday that “someone, [...]

The Arab League Suspends Mission In Syria

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

Syrian troops attempted on Monday to consolidate their position at the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, after the Free Syrian Army took control over them a few days ago in a bid to press toward the presidential palace. Syrian army is said to control Hamouriyeh, a [...]

Libyan Militias Could Throw The Country Into Civil War

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 28th 2012 | no comments

Forces loyal to the Libyan National Transitional Council on Saturday entered Bani Walid in an attempt to put down clashes that had erupted in the region between militias, deepening the crisis of the north African country, which proclaimed its independence in the wake of the capture and [...]

Chinese Security Forces Kill Another Tibetan Protester

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 28th 2012 | no comments

Chinese security forces have announced on Friday to have killed a second Tibetan in a second round of protests in the Sichuan province, where a large Tibetan community lives. The killing on Friday is said to have raised the death toll to at least three people. According to Free [...]

Israel Proposes Separation Wall As Border With West Bank, Jerusalem Under Israeli Jurisdiction

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 28th 2012 | no comments

Israeli negotiation team in Jordan told the Palestinian counterpart during the last round of negotiation that that the guiding principle for Israel in drawing the borders with the future Palestinian state is for the settlements in the West Bank to be part of the state of Israel, a [...]

Massive Protests in Poland Against the Ratification of ACTA

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 28th 2012 | no comments

Massive protests erupt in Poland against the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement, which is seen as a form of censorship of the internet, causing the European Parliament rapporteur to resign in protest. Kader Arif resigned on Friday, saying that the ACTA bill is being accompanied by [...]