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 [...]

Muslim Brotherhood To Join Mass Rally In Cairo Against the Military

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 [...]

Seven Turkish Troops Killed By PKK Rebels

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 [...]

U.N. Secretary General Presses America To Accept Iran in The Group of Contact for Syria

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 19th 2012 | no comments

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday pressed the United States into admitting Iran to the broader group of negotiation on Syria, a move which is considered to improve the chances of solving the crisis in the restive country and decide the fate of its [...]

Muslim Brotherhood’s Candidate Claims Victory in Egypt’s Presidential Election

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 [...]

Greeks Vote in Favor of Remaining in the Eurozone

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 18th 2012 | no comments

Greece has voted on Sunday to continue their bailout arrangements as the New Democracy emerged as winner of parliamentary election and the other pro-Euro parties scored enough to be able to form a government coalition. New Democracy came first with 29.6 percent and 129 seats in the [...]

Tunisian Court Sentences Former Minister, Officials To Up To 15 Years In Prison

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 [...]

U.N. Peacekeeper Chief Herve Ladsous: “Syria Is in a State of Civil War”

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 14th 2012 | no comments

News about Syria sinking into civil war have come over the past few days as the negotiations for peace seem to have failed on all fronts. The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday announced that the Syrian governmental forces are systematically killing [...]

Israel Condemns Violence in Syria, Speaks of “Axis of Evil”

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

Israel has spoken about the violence in Syria on Sunday, condemning it as the result of the work of a “axis of evil” composed by Iran, and pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon, which are assisting the regime in Damascus in its fight against their own population. The statement, [...]

Egypt Attempts to Create a New Constituent Assembly

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 9th 2012 | no comments

Egypt is attempting to set up a new constitutional assembly as the parliament speaker on Friday has asked for nominations for the body which is expected to deliver the country a new constitution a week before the 80-million nation will know who the president is. The previous [...]

U.N. Observers Attempt To Visit Alleged Massacre Site, Syrian Forces Shell Homs

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 8th 2012 | no comments

United Nations observers attempt for a second day on Friday to enter the Syrian site where a massacre was reported on Thursday, after the Syrian authorities barred their way the day before amid calls from the international community for more drastic steps against the regime in Damascus, [...]

Israel To Build 851 Housing Units in the West Bank

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 8th 2012 | no comments

Israeli authorities on Thursday announced that 851 housing units would be built in the West Bank, a move which was considered immediately by the United States as an action which is “undermining the peace process.” The Housing Minister said that the Jewish state would break ground [...]

United Nations To Discuss New Action In Syria Amid Reports of a New Massacre

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 7th 2012 | no comments

Activists in Syria accused on Thursday the Syrian troops and the militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad of another massacre in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer, where they say that 78 people were killed, an information which has not been independently confirmed due to the difficult [...]

Pro Russian-Language Bill Passes In Ukrainian Parliament

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 6th 2012 | no comments

Thousands of Ukrainians took it to the streets of Kiev on Tuesday, as the Russian-language supporting bill passed in the parliament of the country, offering the opportunity to the Russian-speaking population of the country, up to some 17 million, according to the [...]

NATO To Carry Equipment From Afghanistan Through Central Asia

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 [...]

Sudan and South Sudan Resume Negotiations In Ethiopia

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 5th 2012 | no comments

Sudan and South Sudan on Monday started a fresh round of negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in an attempt to solve their differences about oil revenues and borders. It is the first round of talks since the flare-up in April which brought the two neighboring [...]

China Rounds Up Activists As the World Remembers Tiananmen Square Massacre

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 [...]

Hosni Mubarak’s Sentencing To Live in Prison Causes Many In Egypt To Protest

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 4th 2012 | no comments

Thousands of Egyptians took to the Tahrir Square in anger on Saturday night as the word got out that former president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in the events that led to his ouster in January and February 2011. The people protest [...]

Indian PM Visits Myanmar

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 [...]