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 [...]

Ex Mexican President For Drug Legalization

By Diana Lungu | August 10th 2010 | no comments

The ex Mexican President, Vicente Fox declared that he is favoring the legalization of drugs and he is attempting to stop the illegal activity on the markets that turned Mexico into a battleground. He showed this proposal on his website this weekend and he also stated that the drug addiction and the violence cased by drugs should be treated distinctly and resolved like different [...]

Talibans Execute Widow for… Adultery

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 9th 2010 | no comments

Talibans executed in western Afghanistan a pregnant widow accused of adultery, districtual and provincial sources have confirmed. The woman, Sanam Gul, 47, was killed in Badghis province Saturday morning. The district governor has confirmed the execution. He said that the woman was accused of adultery, as a result of which she remained pregnant. In spite of the fact that it still [...]

Pakistan Facing the Worse Natural Disaster in History

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 9th 2010 | no comments

Pakistan is going through a huge natural disaster as rainfalls continue to flood communities causing many people to die and a lot more to lose their every single asset in their households. The Pakistani crisis comes in the broader context of the huge catastrophe in all Asia provoked by rain and landslides. According to United Nations reports there are 13 million people affected by the [...]

North Korea Provokes South Korea After Joint Naval Drill

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 9th 2010 | no comments

North Korean Republic responded today to the five-day joint military drill executed by the U.S. Navy and the South Korean Navy in the Sea of Japan. This common exercise has created a lot of panic amid the countries in the region, which responded to it in various ways. Thus, China warned the American authorities that they find conducting the exercise in the Yellow Sea unacceptable, [...]

Presidential Elections in Rwanda

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 9th 2010 | no comments

Rwandan voters participate today in the second presidential election in this country since the genocide in April 1994. There are more than 5 million people registered to vote, and they are expected to vote almost all of them, based on the examples of the previous elections. Although the results are not expected until Wednesday, there is no big surprise, and the actual President Paul [...]

Panel of Inquiry Will Begin Investigating Israeli-Turkish Incident

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 9th 2010 | no comments

The panel of inquiry into what happened near Gaza on the Turkish-flagged ship Mavri Marmara in May, 2010, will begin its investigations on Tuesday. Israeli PM Benjamind Netanyahu made a few statements on the subject, asserting that the soldiers operated within the international law when they stopped and searched the Turkish ship, and that soldiers acted courageously in self-defense [...]

Large chunk of ice breaks from Greenland Glacier

By Irina Preda | August 9th 2010 | no comments

A report from the US University’s researchers revealed that a huge ice of about 100 square miles has split from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. More than this, they say that the piece of ice has the location in the north western part of Greenland and about 620 miles south of the North Pole. In the same time, the researchers think that the broken ice will move further south on [...]

Canon introduces the all new Mouse

By Irina Preda | August 9th 2010 | one comment

One of the most important brands in the consumer electronics, Canon, has recently announced that they will release on the market a new computer mouse, which is designed to be more than a conventional mouse. The new mouse, called Canon X Mark I Mouse is the first product launched as a result of the collaboration of Canon with the company’s X-Series of calculators. More than this, the [...]

Mansory presents the Tricked Out Bugatti Veyron

By Irina Preda | August 9th 2010 | no comments

We all should know by know that Bugatti Veyron is one of the fastest production cars that man has ever designed, especially if you think that the Veyron is going at an amazing speed of 267 mph. You can just imagine how it feels like standing in the capsule of the Bugatti Veyron, with the blood rushing to your head knowing that the whole world is zipping past you. The legendary [...]

Flip flops Are Not Good For Your Feet

By Diana Lungu | August 9th 2010 | one comment

Everybody wears flip flops, from Cleopatra to kind Tutankamon. Even the members of the Northwestern University woman's lacrosse team wore them in 2005 at the White House. When the summer hits, people all around are tossing away their closed-in shoes for the loose flip flops. But the foot doctors say they're not very healthy for your feet. Dr. Kathya Zinszer, an associate professor [...]

Seeking map data in response to Pakistan floods

By Irina Preda | August 9th 2010 | no comments

The United Nations have made a report about the recent floods in Pakistan, and the results of their studies were extremely worrying. They say that more than 4 million persons were affected by these floods, and the level of the damages is growing daily. Specialized personnel and volunteers are rushing to help the ones in need, especially those who are hurt or seek, because the risk of [...]

Sao Paolo Open Source Jam 2

By Irina Preda | August 9th 2010 | no comments

Google Brasil was, on 14th of July, the host of the second edition of Open Source Jam in Sao Paolo. The meeting had about 40 attendees and about 10 interesting talks on different topics. After Rodolpho Eckhardt welcomed the guests, around 19.00, Joao Paulo Rechi Vita broke the ice and started the list of presentations by talking about the Google Summer of Code project, based on [...]

Girls hit puberty earlier than before

By Diana Lungu | August 9th 2010 | no comments

Lately scientists have discovered the fact that the U.S. girls are hitting puberty very early, earlier than before. A mid 2000 study shows that over 10 % of the girls that have past the age of 7 have reached a stage of the breast development, starting the puberty, in comparison with 5 % as a 1990s study showed. In addition, the black girls and the Hispanic ones grow and mature faster [...]

American Military Hands Over Control to the Iraqi Troops

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 8th 2010 | no comments

U.S. military handed yesterday the control over combat operations to Iraqi commandos, which showed what they had learnt from the Americans in a military ceremony. The highest ranked U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Raymond Odierno, participated in the event of formally handing the control to the 6th Iraqi Army Division by the American 4th Brigade of 2nd Infantry Division. President [...]

Medvedev Celebrates Two Years Since the Invasion of Georgia

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 8th 2010 | no comments

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev decided to leave smokey Moscow for a breath of fresh air in the Caucasus Mountains. Thus, he visited today Abkhazia, a territory over which Russia and Georgia warred two years ago. The working visit of Medvedev to Abkhazia is the first in his capacity as President of the Russian Federation, and is occasioned by the anniversary of the beginning of the [...]

Mostafaei Received Asylum in Norway

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 8th 2010 | no comments

Is it international pressure or is it the understanding of the fact that there is no profit that can be made out of it? We don’t know that, but we do know that the wife of Muhammad Mostafaei was released on bail today, after spending fourteen days in solitary confinement in the renowned Evin prison in Tehran. She confessed her jailers were telling her that she would be released if she [...]

Chavez Ready to Make Peace with Colombia

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 7th 2010 | no comments

President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to take office today in Bogota, Colombia, at the end of the second term of President Alvaro Uribe. The ceremony comes at a time when Colombia and Venezuela broke off their diplomatic relations, again, because of the tensioned relations between the two presidents. Still, President Chavez announced on Friday on Venezuelan television that the [...]

Tariq Aziz Thinks Americans Leave Iraq Too Soon

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 7th 2010 | no comments

The decision to withdraw the American troops from Iraq was received with hope and satisfaction as President Obama announced this decision earlier this week. It is a decision many Americans and Iraqis had been expecting for years. Still, not all the Iraqis are happy about it. Tariq Aziz, for example, former foreign minister in the government of Saddam Hussein, considered a moderate [...]