Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments
Ukrainian court in Kharkiv on Saturday postponed a hearing of the former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, due to her health condition which has caused concern in Europe over the way she is being allowed to tend to her medical problems. Tymoshenko was expected to be in court for a [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, on Friday accused political enemies of his party linked to Nicolas Sarkozy and his ruling UMP party of staging the scandal that erupted against him last year, caused him to lose his job at the IMF and the bid for presidency of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments
Mali junta on Friday said that it would resist any deployment of ECOWAS forces in their country, and that they would treat these foreign forces sent there as “enemies.” The statement comes a day after the decision of ECOWAS was made to send troops in both Guinea-Bissau and Mali [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 27th 2012 | no comments
Pakistani authorities on Friday deported Osama bin Laden’s three wives and children to Saudi Arabia, less than a week before the anniversary of the unilateral raid of the American army to Pakistan, which killed the al-Qaida leader in the hideout in the military town of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments
Israeli chief of staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz on Thursday said that other countries may ready their forces to hit the nuclear facilities of Iran, and make sure this country does not acquire nuclear weapons. He did not specify which nations would support the Israeli effort to defend his [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments
Marine Le Pen on Thursday mocked the incumbent president’s attempt to convince millions of far-right voters to vote for him in the runoff held on May 6, where he is expected to lose to his contender, Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who won the first round on April [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Thursday met with the leaders of the central and eastern European countries in a bid to tighten the political and economic ties with the ex-Communist countries which adhered to the European Union or are in dialogue with the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments
Up to 70 people have been killed on Wednesday as a house exploded in the city of Hama, being destroyed by a bomb at a house used by “terrorist groups,” according to the state-run media, while the activists in the field say that it was caused by the government’s shelling or even a [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments
Egyptian election commission entrusted with supervising the presidential elections in May on Thursday issued a final list of candidates which comprises 13 people out of the 23 candidates enlisted at the beginning of the campaign. The list includes former foreign [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday announced that was going to give the six-point plan put forward by special envoy of the U.N.-Arab League Kofi Annan until May 5, when Annan must present his report in front of the Security Council, in which he is to explain the stage of the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments
Israeli Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Benny Gantz, on Wednesday expressed his opinion that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon. He made this assumption during an interview for the Israeli Haaretz. Gantz said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has not made his final decision on [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments
Activist report that Syrian forces have killed on Wednesday at least seven people as a small group of U.N. observers resumed their mission to monitor the ceasefire that took effect two weeks ago. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that four of the people were killed and several [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments
Socialist president hopeful Francois Hollande on Wednesday criticized the European debt crisis response offered by the European Union leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the latter being his direct opponent in the runoff for [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments
Former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year term in prison for abuse of office, on Tuesday announced by her lawyer she went on hunger strike after she accused the guards of having dragged her out of bed and punched her in the stomach, according to [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday renounced the chairmanship of the United Russia party in the run-up to swearing into office on May 7, after he won another term in office by the presidential elections on March 4. The new chairman of the party in power is the outgoing [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments
South Sudanese president Salva Kiir on Tuesday told the president of China, Hu Jintao, during a visit in Beijing, that his visit came at a dark hour when Sudan has “declared war” on his country, explaining that the attacks that continued on the newly created state amount to a [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments
Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande on Tuesday began their quest to attract the votes of the six million French people who voted for Marine Le Pen in the first round of presidential elections held on April 22, which were won by the Socialist candidate by [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments
Egyptian electoral commission entrusted with screening the candidates for the presidential elections is expected to offer the final list of the candidates who will be allowed, according to the law, to participate in the elections set for May. The list will come to curve the confusion [...]
