Politics
Mar 10th, 2012
In Slovakia's election on Saturday, Leftist former prime minister Robert Fico is poised to sweep to win on a promise to tax the rich and better protect the working class as the country grapples with high unemployment and economic turmoil. Survey show the 47-year-old lawyer could win 40 percent of the vote, potentially knocking his reformist opponent Mikulas Dzurinda's centre-right SDKU out of power and possibly out of parliament.
A government led by Fico's pro-European Smer party would alleviate Slovakia's euro zone partners who were disappoint by the outgoing coalition's refusal to contribute to the first bailout of Greece and holding up
Mar 9th, 2012
The Pakistan Taliban holds a plan to attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesperson for the militant group said on Friday. The government of Pakistan has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegitimately entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday.
Ehsanullah Ehsan of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told Reuters if the family of Osama bin Laden is not released as soon as possible, they will attack the judges, the lawyers and the security officials who are involved in their t
Mar 7th, 2012
President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy said that there are too many immigrants or foreigners in France, and he promise to cut the number of new arrivals in half.
Sarkozy vowed in a TV debate defended his plan to almost halve the number of foreigners if re-elected next month, the president is trailing in the opinion polls behind the Francois Hollande, a Socialist candidate and also contending for conservative voters with the National Front party led by Marine le Pen.
French president said that immigration could be a benefit for the country and it needed to be controlled more strictly and tightly through tougher qualification rules fo
Mar 5th, 2012
On Monday, the White House announced that the President of the United States Barack Obama will host leaders of the G8 (Group of Eight) club of the world’s largest economies this year on May 18-19 at his Camp David compound retreat instead of in his hometown of Chicago.
The White House said that in the month of May, the United States also looks forward to hosting the NATO summit on May 20-21 in Chicago for shaping up as crucial to plans to transition international forces out of Afghanistan.
The House said that to make easy a free-flowing discussion with US close G-8 partners, Obama is inviting G-8 leaders to Camp David on May 18
Mar 4th, 2012
In Russian presidential elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed victory after preliminary results from more than half of polling stations across the country reported that he has secured a clear majority.
On Sunday, in the capital of the Russia, Putin addressing to a gathering of thousands its supporters said that he promised to all of them they would win, they won, Glory to Russia.
Russian media reported that on Sunday after the preliminary results announced, thousands of Putin’s supporters gathered outside the Kremlin for a concert to celebrate his victory.
Media reported that with half of the votes counted, Putin
Mar 3rd, 2012
US President issued direct threat to Iran with a military strike over the nuclear energy program while at the same time in a message to Israel cautioned against a pre-emptive Israeli strike.
In an interview with Atlantic magazine, published on Friday, the President of the United States Barack Obama said that they not taking any option off the table in order to prevent nuclear program of the Islamic Republic.
Obama interviewed the magazine about the Iran’s nuclear program just three days before a meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Obama said that he think both the governments of Iran and the Israel kno
Feb 29th, 2012
The strain between U.S and Israel ties became more evident when Israeli officials refused to give Washington any advance warning of a decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to US intelligence sources.
According to the report, Israel’s message was conveyed during recent high-level talks with Pentagon officials. Citing an anonymous U.S intelligence official the report said that an Israeli top official has made it clear to their U.S counterparts that they would keep the Americans in the dark to decrease the likelihood that the US would be held responsible for failing to stop Israel's potential attack.
For months U.
Feb 28th, 2012
Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security defends Washington's policy in the war against drugs.
insists Mexico
Ms Napolitano said the US would continue to offer assistance to Latin American countries combating the producers and traffickers of narcotics.
Adding the US would continue in the search for Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted drug dealer, comparing that search to the successful 10-year hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Mexican Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, and Ms Napolitano at a joint news conference, was questioned why Guzman, the leader of one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels, was still at larg
Feb 28th, 2012
According to Channel One the Russian state television, the intelligence and security authorities in Russia have arrested two men who are sipped to be involved in a plot for the assassination of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The state television channel also showed these two arrested men who had confessed that they were working under the auspices of the Chechen warlord named Doku Umarov. They said that the killing plot was hatched in the Ukrainian city of Odessa and they had planned to conduct it in the Russian capital Moscow. The TV report said that the two men had reached Ukraine via United Arab Emirates. They reached UAE thro
Feb 27th, 2012
On Saturday the new President of Yemen, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi took oath of his office after the formal removal of the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power in the country.
During the same time a car bomb blast in the south of Yemen, highlighted the ongoing violence in the country which is now the biggest challenge faced by the new President of the country. According to reports, a car which was loaded with explosives has resulted in the killing of at least 26 people, and wounded many when the vehicle was being driven to the presidential palace in Hadramount, a city in the southern Yemen, and is far from the Yemeni cap
