Posted in: World News 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, [...]
Posted in: World News 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 [...]
Posted in: World News 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 [...]
Posted in: World News 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, [...]
Posted in: World News 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 [...]
Posted in: World News 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 [...]
Posted in: World News 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 [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 26th 2012 | no comments
Tibetan prime minister in exile Lobsang Sangay on Thursday demanded that an international inquiry be launched into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Tibetan protesters earlier this week, which, according to unconfirmed reports, claimed the life of at least one person and [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 26th 2012 | no comments
Speaking during a visit to the Kerman province, the president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country could engage in negotiations with the Western countries about its nuclear programs, but added that it order for him to do so, the West should change “foul” attitude [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 26th 2012 | no comments
Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, has taken on Wednesday the first formal step toward independence of Scotland by publishing in a governmental consultation paper the question the people of Scotland would have to answer in the referendum that is to be held in the autumn of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 26th 2012 | no comments
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday announced that the consultations with Israel in the capital of the Jordanian Kingdom have ended, and that the talks could be resumed after a consultation with the Arab League representatives, which is to be held on February 4.
The [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 25th 2012 | no comments
Romanian Constitutional Court on Wednesday decided that the law passed by the Romanian parliament on election merger is not constitutional, as hundreds of Romanians continue their protest against the president, the government and the merger of elections for the 13th day, [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 25th 2012 | no comments
Israeli and Palestinian delegations which met in Jordan last Saturday in an attempt to revive the talks between the two sides came to a stalemate again as Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat refused to allow Israeli counterpart Yitzak Molcho to expose his country’s [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 23rd 2012 | no comments
Russia on Monday has announced the closing of a $550 million worth o warplane with Syria at a time when there is increasing pressure for the Western forces to intervene and impose a no-fly zone on the regime accused of having killed 5,000 of the people in a 11-month [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 23rd 2012 | one comment
At least one Tibetan person was killed by security forces on Monday in the province of Sichuan, China, according to the Tibetan government in exile and international rights groups. The shooting occurred in the province of Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, following the arrest of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 23rd 2012 | no comments
The newly elected Egyptian parliament held its first session on Monday, marking the opening of the first parliament since the president Mubarak was ousted by the unrest in January 2011. The new parliament also marks the keeping of the promise the generals have made to have a [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 23rd 2012 | no comments
French Senate is expected to cast a vote on the anti-denial bill, which punishes those who denied the genocide of Armenians at the end of the WWI, as the Ottoman Empire was in dissolution. The vote follows a similar one in the National Assembly, which in December passed the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 23rd 2012 | no comments
The European Union on Monday decided to ban imports of oil from Iran, in a bid to punish Tehran for its nuclear program, which is considered a form to develop a nuclear weapon program. The embargo takes effect immediately and means that any newly proposed contract between Iran and [...]
