Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 29th 2012 | no comments
At least 20 people were killed in the Chinese western province of Xinjiang on Tuesday in ethnically-motivated violence, after a group the regional government considers “terrorist” attacked with knives people in a busy street of the city of Kashgar, killing 13. Seven of the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 29th 2012 | no comments
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is expected to meet the American president Barack Obama on March 5, and is expected to demand of the American leader that he make “further-reaching declarations” about the readiness of the U.S. army to execute a military [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 29th 2012 | no comments
Belarus and the European Union stats continued their diplomatic spat over the calling of ambassadors, as the European Union announced on Tuesday it was recalling all its ambassadors from the former Soviet republic in response to the decision made by the authoritarian regime in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 29th 2012 | no comments
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered the government to draft another bill on Armenian genocide denial, after the prior one was struck down on Tuesday by a decision of the Constitutional Council, which considered that the bill went against the freedom of speech and of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 28th 2012 | no comments
International media reports that Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki on Tuesday said that his country would offer Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asylum as part of a negotiated agreement to end the conflict that has lasted 11 months in Syria and has claimed the lives of 5,400 to 7,500 [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 28th 2012 | no comments
Israeli officials on Tuesday released the information that if the Jewish state decided to strike the Iranian nuclear facilities, the United States would be kept out of the loop, because they wouldn’t tell the Americans. The Israelis made this statement a few days before the meetings [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 28th 2012 | no comments
Syrian army killed at least 25 people in the latest shelling of the opposition strongholds in Homs on Tuesday as France announced that the United Nations Security Council is working on a new resolution that would condemn the violence in Syria and would reassert the need for immediate assistance [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 27th 2012 | no comments
U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton made a “prediction” on Monday, saying that Bashar al-Assad’s regime would fall when enough soldiers, businessmen and minorities desert him. She made this assertion in Morocco on Sunday, when she offered an interview for a television channel in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 27th 2012 | no comments
The Arab Spring ended for the Yemenis on Saturday, as the newly elected president of Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, was sworn in as the president following the official hand over of power by Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been the president of the country for 33 years.
The event follows elections held in Yemen a week ago, with Hadi as the only candidate for president, a fact that was [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 27th 2012 | no comments
Syrian authorities are counting on Monday the ballots of the referendum held on Sunday on constitutional change. The voting had to be extended, the authorities in Damascus said, in order to accommodate the huge turnout to the polls. 14,185 polling stations were opened across [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 27th 2012 | no comments
Nine people have been killed and several others were wounded at the gates of Jalalabad airport, in eastern Afghanistan, as a suicide car exploded in a terrorist act that occurred on Monday morning. Provincial police said that most of the deceased were civilians, and that two [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 23rd 2012 | no comments
South Korea and the United States on Thursday protested against China’s decision to repatriate 31 North Korean citizens who were caught on Chinese soil this month. The president of the South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, demanded Beijing to let the NKoreans go to SKorea in stead of being [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 23rd 2012 | no comments
The scandal over the incidental burning of Quran books in Afghanistan continues, as Afghan people still protest against the American troops who did it, prompting the president of the United States of America Barack Obama on Thursday to send a letter to the president of Afghanistan, in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 21st 2012 | no comments
Syrian forces on Tuesday has intensified the shelling on the city of Homs, causing 16 people to die and scores to be injured in what seems to be an operation of the government to wipe out “the terrorist groups,” as the Syrian government said two weeks ago, when it started bombing the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 21st 2012 | no comments
Yemenis went to polls on Tuesday to vote for the formal ouster of the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in a move which is seen as highly atypical for an Arab country, and hardly a democracy exercise, since the only candidate was Vice President Abdel Rabbo Mansur al-Hadi.
Even so, the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 21st 2012 | no comments
Domenique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and former potential candidate to the presidency of France, appeared on Tuesday in front of the police investigators in a case related to a hotel prostitution ring. According to French law, he could be detained for 48 hours [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 20th 2012 | no comments
South Korean military on Monday conducted live-fire drills near disputed border with North Korea in spite of the threats made by Pyongyang to retaliate with a “merciless” attack. North Korea did not retaliate, but tension remained high because the Americans are expected to [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | February 20th 2012 | no comments
The United States on Sunday advised Israel to hold its plan to strike the Iranian nuclear sites and offer international sanctions more time to work. The advise was delivered by United States Army chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, who said that the United [...]
