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 [...]

Malian Junta Leader Demands Western Help To Put Down Tuareg Rebellion

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 5th 2012 | no comments

Captain Amadou Sanogo, the leader of the military coup in Mali, on Thursday has begged the Western countries to help him put down a al-Qaeda-backed revolt in his country. He made this appeal days after the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions on [...]

Iraqi VP Says Iraq Opened Air Space For Iran To Smuggle Guns in Syria

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 5th 2012 | no comments

Tension continues to build between Shiite government of Iraq and the Sunni monarchies in the Persian Gulf after the vice president of Iraq fled Qatar to Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to avoid a nationwide arrest warrant issued in his name for terror actions related to attacking Shiite [...]

MIG-29 Sudanese Military Jet Shot Down By South Sudan

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 4th 2012 | one comment

South Sudan’s military on Wednesday said that it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet after two Sudanese military planes dropped bombs on South Sudanese oil fields. The jet was identified as a Sudanese MIG-29 flying in the South Sudanese Unity state. The South Sudanese say that it was one [...]

Pakistan Refuses To Surrender Saeed To the U.S., Demands Evidence

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

The government of Pakistan on Wednesday demanded that the American counterpart present it with some “concrete evidence” about Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the Pakistani founder of the group that was accused of being the author of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the deadliest attack on Indian [...]

Muslim Brotherhood Candidate To Egyptian Presidency Pledges To Uphold Sharia Law

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

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood candidate to presidential elections Khairat el-Shater on Wednesday was quoted by a Muslim think tank to have pledged to press toward the implementation of the sharia, the Islamic law. According to Egyptian Legal Authority for Rights and Reform, which [...]

EU Pondering Lifting Sanctions on Myanmar, ASEAN States Lift Them

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

World powers decide to lift sanctions on Myanmar after the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, iconic leader of the opposition, in the by-elections held last Sunday, when NLD has won 43 seats out of 45 vacated in the [...]

A 77-year-old Man Shoots Himself in Athens Allegedly Over Crisis

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

A 77-year-old man on Wednesday morning took his life in the Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece, in what appears to be a protest against the economic situation in Greece and the toll it is taking on the population of the Balkan country. The suicide rate has [...]

Serbian President Tadic Resigns To Support Party in Elections

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

Serbian president Boris Tadic on Wednesday announced he would resign from office, creating the conditions of early presidential elections in which he would have to face a very strong nationalist challenge. The parliament speaker is expected to call the presidential elections on May 6, when [...]

Malian Junta To Organize National Convention On the Future of the State

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

The military junta in Mali on Wednesday announced it would hold a national convention to determine the course of the country after the Economic Community of the West African States, ECOWAS, has imposed economic sanctions and travel bans following the expiration of the deadline set [...]

Romania-born Laszlo Tokes Amid The Possible Candidates to Hungarian Presidency

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

Prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban is looking for a new candidate to the office of president of the republic, after Pal Schmitt, who had held the office since August 2010, resigned over a plagiarism scandal which broke out in 2010. According to the Hungarian Constitution, the new [...]

Syria’s Deadline To Make Annan’s Plan Work is April 10

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

Syrian opposition accused on Wednesday the government of continuing its crackdown in the restive cities of the country after it made its promise on Monday to start pulling out the troops, and on Tuesday informed the international community that the pullout had begin [...]

French Police Arrests Islamic Radicals Suspected of Planning “War”

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

The radical Muslims were preparing for the holy war and were ready to kidnap a judge from Lyon, a French prosecutor said on Tuesday, as the police in France initiated a serious clamp down on radical Islamists in the country, in the wake of the shooting of three children and a teacher [...]

Meeting Between Sudan, South Sudan Cancelled Again

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

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Sudan and South Sudan to resume negotiations “as soon as possible,” in a bid to end a looming conflict, after a series of border attacks last week, which caused the Sudanese president to cancel a meeting in [...]

Meeting Between Israeli, Palestinian Negotiators Announced

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

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Tuesday announced that they are to hold a new set of negotiations in the coming hours or days, in the first meeting after two months since the last encounter in Amman, the capital city of the Jordanian Kingdom. A senior Palestinian [...]

ECOWAS Imposes Sanctions On Junta Regime In Mali

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

The Economic Community of West African States on Tuesday imposed severe financial sanctions on the new regime in Mali, following the expiration of the three-day deadline offered by the common West African body to the junta to restore constitutional order after a coup two weeks ago. On [...]

NKorea To Unveil Missile That Can Hit Targets in Continental America

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

South Korean officials disclosed on Tuesday that the NKorean government is preparing to unveil a huge missile that is capable of transporting a warhead to more than 6,200 miles, being able to hit targets in continental America. The discovery was made by the [...]

Islamist Nomination To Presidential Elections Causes Concern in Egypt

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

The decision made by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to back the presidential candidacy of Khairat el-Shater, the strongman in the group, came as a surprise on the Egyptian political landscape, fueling fears that the military and the Muslim dominant party are cooperating toward [...]

Tensions Spark Between Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan Over Fugitive, Oil Exports

By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 2nd 2012 | no comments

Iraqi deputy prime minister Hussain al-Shahristani on Monday demanded in a press conference that the Iraqi fugitive Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashemi be surrendered by Qatari authorities to stay on trial under terror charges. The move, that is expected to strain the [...]