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 [...]

NKorea Threatens To Continue Deterrant Nuclear Activity

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 [...]

Protesters Storm Presidential Palace in Mali, Beat Interim President

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 22nd 2012 | no comments

Interim president of Mali Dioncounda Traore on Monday was beaten senseless by a mob which stormed the presidential palace in Bamako one day after he signed an agreement with military coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, by which he would stay in office for a [...]

Taiwanese President Takes Office, Promises Close Ties with China

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 [...]

Serbians Elect Tomislav Nikolic President

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 21st 2012 | no comments

Serbia elected on Sunday a new president, nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, who unseated incumbent Boris Tadic in a runoff won by 50.21% to 46.77% according to the latest estimations of the electoral commission which announced preliminary results. Boris Tadic, who had shortened his [...]

Bomb Goes Off In Brindisi, Kills 16-Year-Old, Wounds Five

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 [...]

Car Bomb Kills Nine, Wounds 100 In Syrian City

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 [...]

Group of Eight Talks About Iran, Syria, Euro Crisis

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

Group of Eight summit, which started on Friday at presidential resort of Camp David, Maryland, focused during its initial session on the need to determine Iran to halt its nuclear project and to tackle the Syrian situation more seriously, so that a solution can [...]

Israeli PM Says Iran Show No Sign of Ending Nuclear Program

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 [...]

Syrian Forces Open Fire on Aleppo Protesters

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 [...]

ECOWAS Soldiers Arrive In Guinea-Bissau, In Standby for Mali

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 [...]

Iran Snubs The Bahrain-Saudi Arabia Union

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

Iran summoned on Friday Bahrain ambassador in Tehran after the foreign minister of the tiny island nation accused the Islamic republic of meddling in its internal affairs. The move comes after the Bahraini Foreign Ministry warned Iran not to interfere in the proposed plan of [...]

David Cameron on Eurozone: “Time to Make or Break”

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

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday warned the European countries that it was “make or break time” for the European currency, and that he would do whatever was in his powers to make sure that Britain does not have to suffer as a result of the turmoil that engulfs the [...]

Syriza Leader Alexis Tsipras Snubs European Union, Angela Merkel

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Greek left-wing Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras on Thursday lashed out at the European Union and Angela Merkel, accusing them of “playing poker” with the lives of the Europeans by their austerity measures. Syriza is expected to become the first party in Greece after the election [...]

Mladic’s Trial Postponed Over “Clerical Error”

Posted in: Editorials, Featured by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague which is judging the case of Ratko Mladic, the ex-Bosnian commander, which is accused of having supervised the massacre of Srebrenica in 1995, had to suspend the case on Thursday, one day after the beginning of the trial, because of the failure to [...]

Turkey Accuses Israeli Jets of Breaching Turkish Cypriot Air Space

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Turkish military officials on Thursday accused that an Israeli plane has been violating the air space of the Turkish Cyprus earlier this week causing the Turkish air forces to scramble two jets to chase the Israeli plane away. According to a report issued by the Turkish air [...]

Bashar al-Assad Says in Interview Country Under Terrorist Attacks

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday offered an interview to Russia 24, a state-run television station, in which he said that the country was under attack from terrorist groups backed by foreign powers, denying that he had much domestic [...]

U.S. Plan For Possible Strike Against Iran “Fully Available,” Ambassador Says

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 17th 2012 | no comments

Days before the Iranian talks on nuclear program are expected to begin in Baghdad, the United States ambassador to Israel announced that his country has completed its plan for a possible military strike against Iran and that the option is now “fully available.” Ambassador [...]

NATO Invites Pakistan at Meeting on Post-War Afghanistan

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

The NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday extended an invitation to the NATO meeting in Chicago to the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in a move to bring Pakistan closer to the decision-making process related to the situation in Afghanistan as [...]