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 [...]

Ukraine Postpones Yalta Summit Amid International Boycott

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

Ukraine on Tuesday announced that it has postponed the summit scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Black Sea resort of Yalta because of the boycott of western countries which pulled out of it in protest to the way former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is being treated in prison, [...]

Russian Parliament Approves Medvedev as Prime Minister

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

Russian parliament on Tuesday approved Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister of the Russian Federation, by 299 to 144, thus sealing the job swap between Medvedev and Putin, which was announced last September, when Putin was nominated as candidate to the presidency, and concluded on [...]

Sarkozy and Hollande Attend Victory Day Celebration

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

Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday conducted a ceremony commemorating the end of World War II alongside the president-elect Francois Hollande, a few days before Sarkozy steps down and the new president is sworn in. Francois Hollande won the runoff last [...]

Syria Holds First Multiparty Elections, Opposition Boycotts Them

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

Vote counting continued in Syria on Tuesday after parliamentary elections were held on Monday amid an opposition boycott and numerous problems caused by the fact that the ceasefire which came into effect on April 12 is very difficult to keep operational. The parliamentary [...]

Milosevic’s Socialist Party, Key for Serbian Government

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

The Socialist Party in Serbia on Monday emerged as the kingmaker party in the parliamentary elections held in the Balkan country, as the voters followed the trend seen in France and Greece, expressing anger over the hardship brought upon by the economic crisis and the specific situation of [...]

Russia Has a New President – Vladimir Putin

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

Vladimir Putin on Monday was inaugurated to his third term as the president of the Russian Federation in a ceremony intended to highlight Russia’s might and glory, conducted in the capital’s Kremlin, the seat of the former emperors of the Russian Empire, now the office of the [...]

France Has a New President – Francois Hollande

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

French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande on Sunday evening made his first victory speech in front of the people as exit polls give him as winner of the runoff on Sunday and the next president of France, marking a shift of the European country and of the [...]

European Officials To Boycott Euro 2012 Over Tymoshenko’s Case

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

Ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko’s hunger strike over claims of abuses risks alienating Ukraine from its European allies as some of the European officials announced already that they would boycott the soccer tournament Euro 2012, which is expected to begin in June in Poland and [...]

Sarkozy Failed To Know Out Hollande On TV Debate

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 3rd 2012 | no comments

French political analysts on Thursday expressed opinion that the conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy failed to deliver a deadly political blow to his contender, Socialist Francois Hollande, during the televised three-hour debate staged on Wednesday. On [...]

The U.N. Having Problem Recruiting Observers for Syrian Mission

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 3rd 2012 | no comments

The United Nations on Thursday announced that they were able to recruit only half of the personnel needed to deploy an observer mission to Syria, amid concern that the accepted plan of Kofi Annan is bound to fail as the Syrian military resumed its violent crackdown in some parts [...]

Violent Clashes in Cairo, At Least 11 Killed, Dozens Wounded

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 2nd 2012 | no comments

At least 11 people were killed on Wednesday in Cairo as unknown attackers armed with guns and firebombs clashed with protesters near the Defense Ministry, as they rushed from a neighborhood close by at dawn and fought 500 demonstrators, many of whom are supporters of Hafez [...]

UNSC To Pass Resolution on Sudan, South Sudan. China, Russia Object

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 2nd 2012 | no comments

United Nations Security Council on Wednesday is expected to vote on a resolution that would threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions, if they continue their conflict along the border, as Russia and China announced their opposition to such a [...]

Malian Junta Foils Counter-Coup

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 2nd 2012 | no comments

Military junta in Mali on Tuesday foiled a counter-coup staged by ousted president’s guardsmen, overrunning their base in the capital and repelling their assaults on the airport and the state broadcaster. Euronews reports that at least 27 people were killed in the clashes with the [...]

Tymoshenko’s Preliminary Hearing Postponed Because of Health Condition

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments

Ukrainian court in Kharkiv on Saturday postponed a hearing of the former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, due to her health condition which has caused concern in Europe over the way she is being allowed to tend to her medical problems. Tymoshenko was expected to be in court for a [...]

DSK Blames Political Adversaries For Downfall

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, on Friday accused political enemies of his party linked to Nicolas Sarkozy and his ruling UMP party of staging the scandal that erupted against him last year, caused him to lose his job at the IMF and the bid for presidency of [...]

Mali Junta Reject’s ECOWAS Decision To Send Troops To Help

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments

Mali junta on Friday said that it would resist any deployment of ECOWAS forces in their country, and that they would treat these foreign forces sent there as “enemies.” The statement comes a day after the decision of ECOWAS was made to send troops in both Guinea-Bissau and Mali [...]

American Army To Pull Out 9,000 Marines of Okinawa Futenma Base

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 28th 2012 | no comments

The United States and Japan on Friday announced they had agreed to relocate thousands of Marines from the Okinawa island, in a bid of the Japanese authorities to ease the burden of the American presence in their country amid popular displeasure with pollution, accidents, and [...]

Bin Laden’s Three Wives Deported By Pakistan To Saudi Arabia

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

Pakistani authorities on Friday deported Osama bin Laden’s three wives and children to Saudi Arabia, less than a week before the anniversary of the unilateral raid of the American army to Pakistan, which killed the al-Qaida leader in the hideout in the military town of [...]