Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 31st 2012 | no comments
India is no inspiration for democracy, iconic Myanmar activist and Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted to have said after the historical visit of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Myanmar, as part of the new stance on this Asian country [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 30th 2012 | no comments
Egyptians took it to Tahrir Square on Tuesday after the electoral commission validated the results of the first round of presidential election and the fact that the runoff will be disputed by former Mubarak’s premier Ahmed Shafiq and the leader of the Mother Brotherhood, [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 30th 2012 | no comments
Russia and China reaffirmed their opposition on Wednesday to the idea of military intervention in Syria, after the president of France, Francois Hollande on Tuesday said that the idea of a military intervention in the country which has known 15 months of turmoil should not be taken [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 30th 2012 | no comments
The Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, The Netherlands, on Wednesday passed a verdict in the case of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the first such instance, when a president of a sovereign nation is being sentenced by an international court, since the end of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 28th 2012 | no comments
Greek leftist leader of Syriza party Alexis Tsipras on Monday accused the New Democracy Party and PASOK of playing with the destiny of Greece and its partnership in the euro currency, as the international markets reel from shock after the recent polls present New Democracy as the winning [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 28th 2012 | no comments
Two men set themselves on flames on Sunday outside Jokhang Temple, in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, in a move to mark the first in a wave of self-immolations to reach the capital of Tibet, which is so well guarded by the Chinese authorities. Official Xinhua news agency [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 28th 2012 | no comments
The two Tuareg groups which seized control of the northern territory of Mali the size of France and instated there a state called Azawad agreed to cooperate in installing a sharia-led Islamic state in the territories they control. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 25th 2012 | no comments
Several top-ranking officials of the Syrian regime were victims of an assassination plot carried out by the Free Syrian Army and were saved by the intervention of the medical authorities, Haaretz quotes Israeli officials to have said on Thursday.
According to the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 25th 2012 | no comments
Lawmakers in Ukraine got involved in a brawl that sent at least one of them to the hospital on Thursday as they were debating the use of Russian language in the Russian-dominated eastern part of the country. The scuffle occurred as the lawmaker who are supporters of the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 23rd 2012 | no comments
The doctor who is said to have helped the American military kill Osama bin Laden in May 2011 was jailed for at least 30 years, the Pakistani officials have announced on Wednesday.
Shakil Afridi was charged with treason and judged under the tribal justice system for running a fake [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 23rd 2012 | no comments
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday reiterated at the Israeli radio the demand that Iran stop all uranium enrichment and transfer all uranium stockpile to a third country before the beginning of the negotiations between Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 22nd 2012 | no comments
North Korea on Tuesday vowed to expand its nuclear deterrent capacity in response to the American pressure applied on it in order to discourage the regime in Pyongyang from conducting a third nuclear test, which would make the situation even harder than already is for the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 21st 2012 | no comments
Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated on Sunday after winning a new term in the office in January to Democratic Progressive party candidate Tsai Ing-wen, in the first campaign the analysts say not to have been about the ties with China but about the realities of Taiwanese [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 19th 2012 | no comments
A bomb went off on Saturday in front of a girls’ school in Brindisi, killing a 16-year-old student and wounding at least five others, fueling fears that Italy may go back to the epoch of violence which shook the country decades ago. The bomb exploded as the students were preparing to [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 19th 2012 | no comments
A car bomb went off on Saturday in front of Syrian intelligence post in the city of Deir al-Zor killing nine, and wounding 100 according to the state-run agency SANA, the same day the chief of the U.N. observer mission in Syria said that the mission itself cannot stop the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 18th 2012 | no comments
The Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said on Friday, during a visit to Czech Republic, in Prague, that Iran had no intention to halt its nuclear program. The statement comes days before a meeting of the permanent members of the UNSC plus Germany with Iran is expected to be [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 18th 2012 | no comments
Syrian security forces on Friday opened fire against the protesters in Aleppo, the second-largest city and an economic hub of Syria, wounding several of them. The protests on Friday are the most important in this northern city since the Syrian revolt started, given that up until now [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 18th 2012 | no comments
About 70 ECOWAS soldiers from Burkina Fasso were deployed on Thursday in Guinea-Bissau as part of a 600-troop party which is expected to replace the Angolan troops stationed in Guinea. The ECOWAS troops are expected to oversee a transition to democratic rule in a country which was the stage [...]
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