Egyptian President-elect to Appoint Woman, Christian Vice-Presidents

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments

Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday announced that he would nominate six vice-presidents, including a woman and a Christian, in a bid to keep his word to be a president to all Egyptian. The move is also perceived as a step toward ending the reign of the military, which is [...]

Malian Interim President Sworn In

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

The speaker of the Malian parliament, Dioncounda Traore, on Thursday was sworn in as interim president of Mali a few days after the former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, resigned his office in a bid to end the isolation of his country, which was under the sanctions of the African [...]

Hamid Karzai May Resign Before 2014

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Thursday announced he was considering the possibility of stepping down one year earlier and allow new elections in 2013, in order to offer the successor the opportunity to manage the departure of the American troops from Afghanistan, which is about to be [...]

NKorea Postpones Rocket Blast Off

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

The NKorean authorities on Thursday missed the opportunity to launch the rocket which is supposed to be carrying a satellite into orbit, keeping all its neighbor guessing and waiting for at least another day. The rocket had been fueled earlier in the week, and was ready for blast [...]

Sarkozy Issues Antiterrorist Bill, Hollande Reassures No Nationalization

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

French government on Wednesday approved an antiterrorist bill, which was promised by president Nicolas Sarkozy in the wake of the shootout in Toulouse, where three paramilitaries, three Jewish children and a rabbi were gunned down by an French-Algerian 23-year-old in separate [...]

Former Palestinian PM Believes in the “One-State Solution”

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

American National Public Radio website on Thursday publishes an interview with former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurai, who took office in September 2003 from Mahmoud Abbas, at the appointment of Yasser Arafat, and left it three years after, following the defeat of Fatah in the [...]

Syrian Govt. Observs the Ceasefire as Deadline Passes

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 12th 2012 | no comments

Silence engulfed Syria on Thursday morning as the deadline imposed by U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan for the ceasefire was reached, but no pullout of the cities was noted, activists said. The Syrian Defense Ministry announced that the regime in Damascus has [...]

Greece To Hold Snap General Elections On May 6

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

Greece on Wednesday announced that it would hold snap elections on May 6 to replace the cross-party government led by Lucas Papademos, who has managed to impose the austerity measures that helped the country avoid default and receive a second bailout from the troika made of European [...]

Seif al-Islam Hopes To Be Tried in Libya Under Duress, ICC Says

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday disclosed that in a meeting with the son of deposed leader of Libya Muammar al-Qaddafi, Seif al-Islam, that he wanted to be tried in Libya, even if that meant him facing the possibility of death penalty. ICC prosecutors said they visited [...]

Turkey Considers Installing Buffer Zone Along the Syrian Border

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

Turkey on Wednesday intensified its threat to use force against Syria, if the president of Syria pushed them too far, the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said while visiting China. Erdogan said that Turkey had no intention of entering Syrian territory, but that if anyone would [...]

Chinese Communist Party Expels Local Leader Over Briton’s Death

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

The ouster of Bo Xilai, the Communist leader of the city of Chongqing, on Tuesday, and his wife’s inclusion within the circle of suspects in the killing of a Briton citizen is seen by the Communist authorities in China as a fortifying moment for the regime as the party is expecting to make a [...]

Israeli, Palestinian PMs To Meet Next Week

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

Israeli Prime Minister Banyamin Netanyahu will meet his Palestinian counterpart, Salam Fayyad, in Jerusalem in a bid to unlock the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The news was announced on Tuesday by a Palestinian official and was confirmed on Wednesday by a [...]

Russia’s Putin Agrees To Two-Term Limit of Presidential Office

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

President-elect of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who is expected to be inaugurated on May 7 as the new president of the federation, said on Wednesday, during a last address to the lower house of the parliament in his capacity of prime minister, that while he respected and even [...]

Kofi Annan Visits Iran In Hopes To Save Peace Plan In Syria

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

The U.N.-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, on Wednesday said in Tehran, Iran, where he arrived as part of a two-day tour in Turkey and Iran, that the failure of the regime in Damascus to abide by the six-point plan he had proposed for the end [...]

Clashes Erupt Between Sudan, South Sudan Over Oil-rich Field of Heglig

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

Military conflict on Wednesday went on for a second day over the large oil field of Heglig, as South Sudan took back the zone from the Sudanese army, which invaded it with air strikes and ground attacks. The Heglig zone is disputed between the two states, Sudan claiming that it [...]

8.6-magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesian Province, Tsunami Watch Issued

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

A 8.6-magnitude earthquake occurred on Wednesday 23 km beneath the ocean floor at around 434 km from Indonesian Aceh province’s capital, according to the American Geological Survey, prompting the people to leave the coastal lands and move to high grounds as a tsunami alert was [...]

NKorea Injects Fuel Into Rocket, Prepars for Blast Off

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 11th 2012 | no comments

North Korean regime on Wednesday announced it has begun injecting fuel into the rocket it wants to fire later this week, in a move that has raised concerns over the true intentions behind the alleged peaceful satellite launch. The chief of the NKorean launch command announced the fact that [...]

Libyan Government FIghts Over Custody of Seif al-Islam al-Qaddafi

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 10th 2012 | no comments

Libyan government on Tuesday appealed a request from the International Criminal Court in The Hague to hand over Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of the deposed dictator of Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi, who was killed last October in an ambush at the gates of his hometown Sirte. The [...]

Malian Constitutional Court Makes Possible For Parliament Speaker to Take Interim Power

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 10th 2012 | no comments

The Malian constitutional court on Tuesday cleared the way for the parliament speaker to take over the interim presidency one day after the president Amadou Toumani Toure resigned his office on Monday. According to the decision made by the high court in Mali, the parliament speaker [...]