NSA spying operations in France enrage french diplomats

NSA spying operations in France enrage french diplomats

  By Jaime Ortega. The U.S. has severely received criticism by E.U. countries for their spying operations in Holland, and Germany, but France has become another target by the National Security Agency. France called the U.S. Ambassador [...]
Amnesty International ask Egypt to stop the Syrian refugee repression

Amnesty International ask Egypt to stop the Syrian refugee repression

By Jaime Ortega. On Friday, while another wreck of a boat full of migrants attempting to arrive at the coast of Lampedusa left dozens of bodies, 12 people died drowned shortly after leaving the coast of Alexandria. The ship was carrying 150 [...]
Agreement moves forward before deadline

Agreement moves forward before deadline

By Jaime Ortega.   Democrats and Republicans finalize a tentative agreement that would avert the threat of default and reopen the federal government. The text is the result of war initiatives whose protagonists are Sen. Mitch McConnell [...]
Lampedusa immigrant's stir EU policy

Lampedusa immigrant’s stir EU policy

By Jaime Ortega. Hundreds dead Immigrants this month off the coast of Italy are only a small part of those who’ve perish at the gates of the European dream. About 1,500 drown each year in the Mediterranean, most of the coast of North Africa [...]
The re-elected president of Azerbaijan accused of fraud

The re-elected president of Azerbaijan accused of fraud

  By Jaime Ortega. The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has won the presidential election in this country, according to preliminary data . The main opposition candidate Hasanli Jamil, was left with 8% of the votes . Aliyev has been, [...]
Pro-Mursi Islamist lose their life's in protest

Pro-Mursi Islamist lose their life’s in protest

By Jaime Ortega. Touched yes, sunken no. Yesterday, the bloodiest in El Cairo since August security forces brutally evicted Islamists camping and showed that Radical Islamists can challenge even the police and army in the streets across the [...]
The IMF warns about U.S. Government halt

The IMF warns about U.S. Government halt

By Jaime Ortega. It is already the third day break in the U.S. government for the lack of funds and a new warning to lawmakers in Washington to solve their differences soon. The voices came from the International Monetary Fund. The managing [...]
Democrats block Republican measures to revert a federal halt

Democrats block Republican measures to revert a federal halt

By Jaime Ortega. The Republicans who control the House of Representatives have failed tonight in their efforts to finance part of the government operations in the first day of the partial shutdown of the federal U.S. government. Thanks in [...]
A New Wave, A Handshake & A Phone Call

A New Wave, A Handshake & A Phone Call

By Susan Modaress. A new environment and a change of tone was the atmosphere of Hassan Rouhani’s debut visit as Iran’s new President to New York this week. Rouhani traveled from Tehran to take part in the 68th annual United Nations General [...]
Timor-Leste's president visits Cuba

Timor-Leste’s president visits Cuba

    By Jaime Ortega.     Timor-Leste and Cuba strengthen ties once again. The Southeast Asian country has paid several visits during the past few years. Cuban Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State [...]
Earthquake hits Balochistan

Earthquake hits Balochistan

By Jaime Ortega. An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale has shaken Balochistan, a province in western Pakistan , that has killed at least 328 people and injured hundreds , according to the latest official figures published . According [...]
Pakistan: Taliban kills 78 christian by blowing up church

Pakistan: Taliban kills 78 christian by blowing up church

By Jaime Ortega. At least 78 people have died , including seven children and 34 women, and more than a hundred were injured in a double suicide bombing near a church in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar , police said . The attack [...]
Al-Shabab terrorist group kidnaps and kills 59 civilians

Al-Shabab terrorist group kidnaps and kills 59 civilians

By Jaime Ortega.     The Kenyan government estimates that between 10 and 15 radical Somalis from the Islamic group Al Shabab, continue this Sunday entrenched in the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi. An unknown number of hostages [...]
United Nations forces Kerry to start reacting in Syria

United Nations forces Kerry to start reacting in Syria

By Jaime Ortega. The Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, called Thursday for the international community to react as soon as possible to the latest United Nations report that confirmed the use of chemical weapons in Syria [...]
Painting Elusive Democracy on Somalia

Painting Elusive Democracy on Somalia

    By Aynte Abdihakim.     This week, Somali government and its international donors are coming together in Brussels under the rubric of The New Deal vision to set in motion the massive amount of money and machineries [...]
Fukushima Reactor Re-Opens

Fukushima Reactor Re-Opens

By Jaime Ortega. For the second time since the Fukushima crisi, Japan will go tonight into a new nuclear blackout period when they start to turn the only reactor that is operating in the country. The reactor number 4 of the Oi plant in Fukui [...]
Lockheed Martin Completes First LRASM Air-Launch Flight Test

Lockheed Martin Completes First LRASM Air-Launch Flight Test

By Lockheed Martin.   Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently completed a successful first flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval [...]
The Syrian rebels protest U.S. treaty with Assad

The Syrian rebels protest U.S. treaty with Assad

By Jaime Ortega. Even though the evidence points to Al-Qaeda as responsible for the chemical attack, the FSA and activist supporting the group demanded the international community to prosecute Bachad Assad. The opponents of the Syrian regime [...]
Ethiopians calling for Protest

Ethiopians calling for Protest

By Betre Yacob. The Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), the most important opposition political party working under the narrowest political landscape in Ethiopia, in collaboration with other 33 opposition political parties is calling [...]
U.S. and Russia negotiate the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons

U.S. and Russia negotiate the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons

By Jaime Ortega. The U.S. secretary of state , John Kerry , said the plan to destroy the Syrian chemical arsenal should be ” binding” and involve “consequences” for if Syria does not comply.   Tuesday, the Secretary [...]