Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 30th 2011 | no comments
Indian parliament on Friday failed to pass the anti-graft Lokpal bill after three days of debate, placing the Congress party in the position of facing the rage of the civil society, which has been protesting for years against the level of corruption in the most populous [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 28th 2011 | no comments
The United States reacted steadily to the assertion made on Wednesday by the Iranian leaders that they may close the Hormuz Strait as a reaction to the Western threats and sanctions made against the Islamic regime in Tehran, which is suspected of developing a nuclear program that [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 28th 2011 | no comments
Prime minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Wednesday rejected the proposition to meet and discuss with the opposition which is credited with having brought tens of thousands of people in the streets of Moscow to protest the rigging of elections at the beginning of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 28th 2011 | no comments
A bomb was thrown into an Arabic school on Wednesday in the mainly Christian southern part of Nigeria, causing the wounding of at least seven people, in a spiral of sectarian violence started in this country by the Islamist Boko Haram group, which staged a few bombings on Christmas in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 28th 2011 | no comments
Mubarak’s trial resumed on Wednesday after months of pause caused by the testimony of the incumbent leader of the state, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, whose words caused the attorneys of the victims to reject the court judge and ask for another.
The resumption of the trial, in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 27th 2011 | no comments
Indian activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday resumed his fasting-to-death in order to apply pressure on authorities, as the famous Indian anti-graft law entered debate in the version proposed by government, which drew immediately as many as 50 amendments from the opposition [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 27th 2011 | no comments
About 20,000 protested on Tuesday in the city of Homs, the hotbed of the nine-month unrest against president Bashar al-Assad, after the military pulled out some tanks and the Arab League observers arrived to determine whether Assad is keeping the promise to put an end to [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 27th 2011 | no comments
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday restated his determination not to allow the rerun of elections after tens of thousands of Russian took it to streets in the large cities of the country last weekend, accusing the rigging of parliament elections and demanding their [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 27th 2011 | no comments
Israeli parliament on Monday began the deliberation on whether to commemorate the Turkish genocide committed against Armenians at the end of the WWI, a move that is sure to ire the Turks again, considering that Ankara downgraded its diplomatic, economic and military ties with [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 23rd 2011 | no comments
Leaders from all over the world arrived on Friday in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, to attend the funeral of the late president of this country, Vaclav Havel, the one who led the overthrow of Communism in 1989. Havel died on Sunday at 75, and is to be interred today following a [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 22nd 2011 | no comments
Arab League observers arrived in Syria on Thursday to assess the situation of the human rights observance as Turkey condemned Syria for turning the country into a bloodbath after 200 people were reported killed in one week in the restive country, where the civilians have been under [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 20th 2011 | no comments
Negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union have collapsed on Monday as the European body demanded as a precondition for further talks the release of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been sentenced in October to seven years in prison for abuse of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 17th 2011 | no comments
Turnout faded on the second weekend of protests against Vladimir Putin party’s winning elections two weeks ago. Only 1,000 people gathered in central Moscow on Saturday to protest what they consider to be a rigging of the process.
Tens of thousands had gathered in Moscow last [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 7th 2011 | no comments
Kamal el-Ganzouri, the newly appointed prime minister of Egypt, was given on Wednesday presidential powers by the military ruling council amid general elections for the first parliament since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak.
The new powers will not include oversight of the judiciary [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 7th 2011 | no comments
As the international human rights observers say that on Tuesday alone some 50 people were killed in the restive city of Homs, in central Syria, with 34 bodies left in the streets, president of the Syrian republic Bashar al-Assad is giving interviews to the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 7th 2011 | no comments
The plans to save euro by bringing the euro zone countries closer through modifying the treaty on which the European Union is based so that their unity become more real found an opponent in the British authorities, who on Tuesday declared that they feared that this [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 6th 2011 | no comments
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military corps that is in charge with protecting the Islamic revolution in this country, has been placed on war footing as orders were issued for it to protect the regime as a consequence of the escalation of sanctions [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | December 6th 2011 | no comments
A new surge of violence occurred on Tuesday in Syria in the city of Homs, as up to 50 people died over the last 24 hours, while dozens of bodies were left in the streets. Witnesses report that kidnappings and killings happened on Monday, and that on Monday night some 34 bodies [...]
