Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 28th 2011 | no comments
The French foreign minister said on Monday that the days of the Syrian government were numbered and that it was very isolated after the Arab League, in an unprecedented gesture, imposed economic sanctions on Syria after suspending it from the organization. On Sunday the members [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 24th 2011 | no comments
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday made an apology for the killing of the Kurds in the late 1930s, being the first Turkish leader to do something like this. The apology issued by the PM comes at a time when the state has tense ties with the Kurdish minority in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 24th 2011 | no comments
European Union on Thursday said that the protection of civilians caught up in the crackdown of the Syrian government is the first priority and it becomes an increasingly urgent and important matter. However, the continental body stopped short of endorsing the French foreign [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments
Pakistan on Wednesday appointed Sherry Rehman as its new ambassador to the United States, a few days after Hussain Haqqani, the former ambassador, resigned from this office as a result of what came to be labeled in Pakistan as “Memogate.” Haqqani was accused of having been the link of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments
Thailand’s criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a 61-year-old man to 20 years in prison for the offence of sending text messages that were considered offensive to the Queen of Thailand. Amphon Tangnoppaku was found guilty on for counts under the computer law and the lese majesty law [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments
UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee on Wednesday agreed to a resolution drafted by Britain, France and Germany and supported by all Arab nations which condemns the crackdown in Syria and demand the regime in Damascus to put into practice the plan to end violence proposed by [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Wednesday said that Seif al-Islam al-Qaddafi can be tried in Libya as long as he is offered a fair trial. Speaking in Tripoli, where he arrived to discuss the extradition of Seif al-Islam, [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 23rd 2011 | no comments
Protest in Egypt entered on Wednesday the fifth day, as the people erected in Tahrir Square an image presenting half face of Mubarak and half of the new leader Tantawi, a message very clear for the military ruling council that the people considers them as unacceptable as they [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 22nd 2011 | no comments
Russia on Tuesday criticized the new sanctions imposed on Iran as a result of the report made by the International Atomic Energy Agency by which the Islamic republic was being accused of having developed a military aspect of the nuclear program. The United States, Canada, [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 22nd 2011 | no comments
Egyptian protests entered on Tuesday a fourth day after 100,000 people sat in the Tahrir Square over night, after three days of clashes that left 26 people dead. The new surge of public anger placed upcoming elections into question, fueling the concerns of those who believe [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 21st 2011 | no comments
Controversy has sparked in Libya in the wake of the capture of Qaddafi’s heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, over whether he should stand on trial in Libya or be extradited to The Hague, where he is expected to respond to accusations of crimes against humanity committed during the unrest in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 21st 2011 | no comments
The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Sunday told the newspaper The Sunday Times that the Arab League was creating the pretext for the international intervention in Syria. Speaking about the way to proceed in order to end the violence, he said that the best way [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 21st 2011 | no comments
Spanish Conservative People’s party on Sunday emerged victorious by a landslide in the parliamentary elections in the biggest victory of the conservatives in 30 years as the voters punished by their vote Zapatero’s Socialist party, whose policies brought the rate of unemployment in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 19th 2011 | no comments
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus on Friday signed a pact by which they can coordinate trade and economic development, actually laying the foundation of what Prime Minister Putin called a few months ago the Eurasian Union. The leaders of the three nations agreed [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 18th 2011 | no comments
A man was charged on Thursday by a Pittsburg federal court magistrate with attempt to kill the president of the United States or members of his staff. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was accused of having fired two shots at the White House’s living quarters where the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 17th 2011 | no comments
Clashes between Christian Copt and Muslims in Cairo broke again on Thursday as a group of Christians marched through a suburb in the capital toward the iconic Tahrir Square, where they intended to protest against what they called discrimination. At least seven people were injured in the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | November 17th 2011 | no comments
Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani offered to resign amid accusation of participating in a plot to cut down the military power in his country. The scandal broke when media reports came to the attention of the public, asserting that in May the president Asif Ali [...]
