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 [...]

Israeli Army’s Chief Says Other Countries Ready To Attack Iran

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Israeli chief of staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz on Thursday said that other countries may ready their forces to hit the nuclear facilities of Iran, and make sure this country does not acquire nuclear weapons. He did not specify which nations would support the Israeli effort to defend his [...]

Marine Le Pen Mocked Sarkozy’s Attempt to Woo Far-Right Voters

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Marine Le Pen on Thursday mocked the incumbent president’s attempt to convince millions of far-right voters to vote for him in the runoff held on May 6, where he is expected to lose to his contender, Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who won the first round on April [...]

China Holds In Poland Economic Summit with Central and Eastern European Countries

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Thursday met with the leaders of the central and eastern European countries in a bid to tighten the political and economic ties with the ex-Communist countries which adhered to the European Union or are in dialogue with the [...]

Up To 70 Killed in Hama In a Bloc of Houses Explosion

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Up to 70 people have been killed on Wednesday as a house exploded in the city of Hama, being destroyed by a bomb at a house used by “terrorist groups,” according to the state-run media, while the activists in the field say that it was caused by the government’s shelling or even a [...]

Egypt’s Electoral Commission Issues List of 13 Presidential Hopefuls

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Egyptian election commission entrusted with supervising the presidential elections in May on Thursday issued a final list of candidates which comprises 13 people out of the 23 candidates enlisted at the beginning of the campaign. The list includes former foreign [...]

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor Found Guilty of Aiding and Abetting War Crimes

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

A U.N.-backed Sierra Leone court on Thursday convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes in a first instance when an African former president is convicted by an international tribunal. In the verdict read by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, he [...]

NKorea Said to Be Ready For Nuclear Test “Soon”

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 26th 2012 | no comments

Russia on Thursday announced it has raised the alert level for its troops in the Far East as it expects NKorea to perform a nuclear test very soon, within next week. The decision is based by specific intelligence, a security official told Kyodo News. According to a [...]

France Speaks of Demanding Military Action on Syria, Offers Deadline To U.N. Mission

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday announced that was going to give the six-point plan put forward by special envoy of the U.N.-Arab League Kofi Annan until May 5, when Annan must present his report in front of the Security Council, in which he is to explain the stage of the [...]

Israeli Chief of Staff Says Iran Undecided to Build Nuclear Bomb

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

Israeli Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Benny Gantz, on Wednesday expressed his opinion that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon. He made this assumption during an interview for the Israeli Haaretz. Gantz said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has not made his final decision on [...]

At Least 7 Die in Syria, U.N. Envoy Says Violence Unacceptable

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

Activist report that Syrian forces have killed on Wednesday at least seven people as a small group of U.N. observers resumed their mission to monitor the ceasefire that took effect two weeks ago. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that four of the people were killed and several [...]

Huge Reserves of Groundwater Found In Africa

Posted in: Editorials, Featured by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

British Geological Survey and University College London earlier this week brought the good news to the people of Africa and to the whole world as they say that the huge reserves of underground water would change the face of the continent for ever, impacting positively on the effects of climate [...]

Hollande Pledges to Chance the Focus On European Construction

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

Socialist president hopeful Francois Hollande on Wednesday criticized the European debt crisis response offered by the European Union leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the latter being his direct opponent in the runoff for [...]

Pakistan Successfully Tests Upgraded Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 25th 2012 | no comments

Pakistan on Wednesday carried out a successful launch of an upgraded ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warhead, days after the Indian archenemy successfully tested a long-range missile. In a written statement, Pakistani military announced it launched into the sea a Haft [...]

Armenians All Over the World Commemorate Armenian Genocide

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments

Armenians all over the word on Tuesday mark the commemoration of the Armenian genocide allegedly committed by the Ottoman troops at the end of the WWI. According to Armenian historians, on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire, [...]

Former Ukrainian PM On Hunger Strike Accusing “Beating” in Prison

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments

Former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year term in prison for abuse of office, on Tuesday announced by her lawyer she went on hunger strike after she accused the guards of having dragged her out of bed and punched her in the stomach, according to [...]

Putin Leaves United Russia’s Chairmanship, Prepares for Presidential Inauguration

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday renounced the chairmanship of the United Russia party in the run-up to swearing into office on May 7, after he won another term in office by the presidential elections on March 4. The new chairman of the party in power is the outgoing [...]

Salva Kiir: “Sudan Declared War on South Sudan”

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments

South Sudanese president Salva Kiir on Tuesday told the president of China, Hu Jintao, during a visit in Beijing, that his visit came at a dark hour when Sudan has “declared war” on his country, explaining that the attacks that continued on the newly created state amount to a [...]

Presidential Candidatea In France Try To Secure Far-Right Votes

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | April 24th 2012 | no comments

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande on Tuesday began their quest to attract the votes of the six million French people who voted for Marine Le Pen in the first round of presidential elections held on April 22, which were won by the Socialist candidate by [...]