Tag: Syria

• Monday, May 26th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  UN praises Mujica's initiative to provide home for Syrian orphanded children

  

  The United Nations' refugee commission expressed gratitude that Uruguay is preparing to provide a new home for 100 children orphaned by Syria's civil war. Senior regional UNHCR official Michelle Alfaro said there are more than 2 million Syrian refugees in all, and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can't handle them all, so the agency hopes to relocate 30,000 this year.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 20:40 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez black tights disperse the focus of the October campaign

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and according to the official agenda has several appointments with political leaders and business representatives.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez flies to G-20 in Russia on Tango 01, but changes aircraft in Morocco

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández left on Tuesday for Russia to attend the G20 summit to begin next Thursday at the Constantine Palace in Saint Petersburg. The president flew on her office’s Tango 01 to Morocco where she changed aircraft to avoid any possible injunction from hedge funds on the presidential transport.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 00:19 UTC

  UK drops out of military intervention in Syria; PM Cameron loses vote in Parliament

  

  British MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons. A government motion was defeated by 285 to 272, a majority of 13 votes.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 03:17 UTC

  China calls for restraint in Syria and says military intervention can only worsen the crisis

  

  China's foreign minister urged restraint in the growing tensions over Syria, saying any military intervention in the crisis would only worsen turmoil in the Middle East. China all along has tried to maintain a neutral position on the issue, not accompanying the West’s intentions of imposing sanctions to Syria but calling on Damascus to begin talking with the rebels.

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  G8 Foreign ministers condemn North Korea but could not agree on Syria

  

  G8 foreign ministers strongly condemned North Korea over its nuclear program on Thursday but failed to bridge divisions over Syria beyond calling for more humanitarian aid for victims of the conflict.

• Friday, March 1st 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Be careful: Russia is back to stay in the Middle East

  

  Russia is back. President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power. He is making his stand in Syria. The Soviet Union acquired the Tartus Naval Port in Syria in 1971 without any real purpose for it. With their ships welcomed in Algeria, Cuba or Vietnam, Tartus was too insignificant to be developed. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lacked the funds to spend on the base and no reason to invest in it.

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 06:02 UTC

  Record killing of journalists doing their jobs in 2012, according to RSF

  

  More journalists were killed doing their job in 2012 than in any year since monitoring started 17 years ago, with Syria and Somalia seeing a particularly heavy toll followed by Pakistan and Mexico, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 01:33 UTC

  Iran denies interest in nuclear weapons, but Egypt spoils the party

  

  Iran has no interest in nuclear weapons but will keep pursuing peaceful nuclear energy, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told heads of state from developing countries in Tehran.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:43 UTC

  Iran, Venezuela and Egypt, a possible peace troika to address the Syria situation

  

  Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has welcomed Iran’s proposal for the formation of a troika committee on Syria consisting of Iran, Egypt, and Venezuela