Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments
The U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan is expected to convene a high-level meeting on Syria in Geneva on Saturday at a time when the level of violence in Syria is said to have surpassed the intensity before the six-point ceasefire plan proposed by him went into effect in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 26th 2012 | no comments
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned Syria against any aggressive activity at the long common border, alluding that Turkey will retaliate at any perceived provocative action against it, following an incident last Friday, when a Turkish air jet was shot down [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 26th 2012 | no comments
New Greek government is already looking for a new finance minister days after the rest of the government was sworn in as incumbent finance minister Vassilios Rapanos filed his resignation on Monday, and was let to go by the prime minister Antonis Samaras.
Vassilios Rapanos is the [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 25th 2012 | no comments
NATO on Monday announced that it would hold emergency talks on Tuesday over the downing of a Turkish plane by the Syrian anti-aerial batteries over the weekend but a decision on the matter is not expected to be made in the sense of a military intervention in retaliation against [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 25th 2012 | no comments
The president of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, on Monday called the extradition of the former Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi by his country “illegal,” contending that the former Libyan official, the first to b extradited and appear in a trial in his country, was [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 23rd 2012 | no comments
Turkey promised to offer Syria a “necessary” response after Syrian forces downed one of its military jets in the Mediterranean, near the sea border, the president of Turkey Abdullah Gul promised on Saturday. It was not clear to which sort of response Gul was referring, though he [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 21st 2012 | no comments
Prosecution in Norway on Thursday demanded in their closing argument at the trail that Anders Behring Breivik be considered insane, prompting prosecutor Svein Holden to say that Breivik should be placed in psychiatric care, not in prison, though the reports about his health condition are [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 20th 2012 | no comments
The owners of the Russian cargo ship whose insurance coverage was revoked by the British authorities and was returned from the waters of Scotland denied accusations that it was involved in illegal activities of carrying helicopters to Syria, as the media reports were announcing on [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 20th 2012 | no comments
The Greek centre-left parties on Wednesday agreed to back the New Democracy party in its effort to form a new government but are reluctant to placing their political leaders in governmental offices, as the new government is expected to face a bitter struggle to bring economy to a normal [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 19th 2012 | no comments
Supreme Court in Pakistan on Tuesday demanded that prime minister Yusaf Raza Gilani be “disqualified” as prime minister and removed from office, following a case of contempt of court earlier this year as he refused to revive a case of corruption against incumbent president Asif [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 19th 2012 | no comments
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday challenged the appropriation by the military council of presidential prerogatives days after the presidential elections on June 16 and 17, which the Brotherhood claims to have won. The Brotherhood announced it would join the mass [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 19th 2012 | no comments
Seven Turkish soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an attack of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which staged a coordinated attack with rocket launchers and rifles against military outposts in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq. The Turkish troops said that the PKK rebels crossed [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 18th 2012 | no comments
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Monday claim victory in the presidential elections held on June 16 and 17, making Mohamed Morsi the first Islamist president in a country that was swept by the Arab Spring in 2011. Shafiq’s side challenged the claim of the Islamists, but the final [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 14th 2012 | no comments
Many Tunisians on Wednesday voiced dissatisfaction with the court ruling which sentenced Ben Ali’s interior minister and seven security chiefs to up to 15 years in prison over the killing of hundreds of Tunisian people during the Arab Spring in January 2011.
The former interior minister [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 5th 2012 | no comments
NATO on Monday announced that it cut an agreement with the Central Asian states Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to allow the transit of its equipment through Central Asia and Russia as part of the drawdown plan of NATO which is expected to leave Afghanistan until 2014.
The [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 4th 2012 | no comments
Chinese authorities on Monday detained political activists and placed others under surveillance in the cities of the country in an attempt to contain the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, which occurred in 1989 and claimed the lives of hundreds of people as the Communist regime [...]
