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QIDONG – At 18-years-old, Li Wei does not look like a dissident. She is mostly focused on her studies in accountancy, her friends – with whom she is always in contact – and chatting with her sister. However, none of that stopped the young girl – who has given us a false name because of […]
SANA (Syria), AL ARABIYA (UAE) , FARS (Iran) , BBC (UK) Worldcrunch Here are the latest developments on the Syrian conflict: →Syrian state-run TV announced Monday morning that Prime Minister Riad Hijab had been sacked, amid rumors that he has defected to Jordan. #Syria is controlled by security & army apparatus, PM is just a […]
HAARETZ (Israel), BBC NEWS (UK), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), ASSOCIATED PRESS (US) Worldcrunch JERUSALEM – Israel says it has found the bodies of eight gunmen who attacked a checkpoint on the border with Egypt on Sunday, killing sixteen Egyptian guards, reports BBC News. The attack was launched at around 8pm on a security checkpoint in the […]
LE MONDE (France), LA REPUBBLICA (Italy), THE GUARDIAN (UK) Worldcrunch PARIS – Do you find yourself cheering like mad for an athlete whose name you just heard for the first time? Are you passionately tuning into sports you never knew you cared about? And though the endless ads and omnipresent sponsors can be a drag, […]
Syria is sinking deeper into civil war as the UN Security Council remains deadlocked. The death toll keeps rising, massacres and torture continue, all under the helpless eyes of the international organization that’s in charge of peacekeeping and human rights. The inaction of the Security Council is largely due to the Russian veto, or threat […]
London 2012 roundup for the week: everything you need to know — and some things you don’t: OK Great Britain. Let’s rock! #olympicceremony #theempirestrikesback — Elizabeth Windsor (@Queen_UK) July 27, 2012 Articles: Welcome To The *Lodnon Oimplycs* Finally A Chance To Shine: Libya’s First Olympics Without Gaddafi Olympic Biz – Why London Is Rolling Out […]
IL GIORNALE (Italy), WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA) Worldcrunch Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale chose a deeply provocative headline for Friday’s front page: “Quarto Reich” – Fourth Reich, to comment on Germany’s refusal to give the European Central Bank more leeway. Il Giornale is a right-wing newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi“s brother Paolo. “Since yesterday, Italy […]
BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), BLOOMBERG (USA) Worldcrunch PYONGYANG –North Korea has requested immediate aid from the United Nations, including food supplies, after being hit by devastating floods last month. The aid also includes fuel and clean water to avoid diseases, as wells have been strongly damaged by the floods. UN officials in Pyongyang said […]
ROMANIA LIBERA, REVISTA 22 (Romania) Worldcrunch BUCHAREST – The political crisis in Romania worsens, threatening the country’s already fragile economy. On Thursday, the Constitutional Court was expected to invalidate the results of July 29’s referendum on the impeachment of President Traian Basescu, Romania. Eighty-eight percent of those who participated in the referendum voted to dismiss […]
BBC (UK), CNN (US), FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) Worldcrunch The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution to increase pressure on the UN Security Council in a bid to resolve the Syrian conflict, reports the BBC. Drafted by Saudi Arabia’s government, who openly support the rebel forces in the country, the resolution condemns […]
24HORAS (Costa Rica), CLARIN (Argentina), CNN EN ESPAÑOL SAN JOSE – Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Youth Karina Bolaños is in hot water after a ‘hot” video of her, lying in bed wearing only lingerie and flirting with the camera began to circulate on the Internet, 24Horas reported. Adding to the controversy, the video was meant […]
KAZAN – Nobody has the exact numbers. The arrests are only talked about when the suspect is someone already well-known in the region. People like Artyom Kalashov, a Russian weightlifting champion, who they first interrogated, then tried to arrest without actually accusing him of the crime. The court blocked the arrest. Then they arrested the […]
TRIPOLI – There were just five Libyan athletes in the delegation that walked out in London’s Olympic stadium for the Opening Ceremony. After 42 years of dictatorship, they want to “show they’re proud of being Libyan” under their new flag. A white crescent and star centered on a horizontal tricolor of red, black and green […]
LATINOSENLARED, OPINION (Bolivia), FORBES (USA) Worldcrunch Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced the end of Coca Cola in his country starting from December 21 2012, Latinosenlared website reports. The date of the ban is symbolic, explains the South American website, quoting the Bolivian blog Nada nos libre de Escorpio. For the Bolivian government, this infamous […]
REUTERS, AL JAZEERA (Qatar), NEW YORK TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch Barack Obama has authorized covert US support of Syrian rebels in order to oust President Bashar al-Assad, reports Reuters. The secret order, which was allegedly signed earlier this year allows the CIA to offer support and assistance to rebel fighters engaged in conflict, with similar reports […]
SHANGHAI DAILY, RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG (China), RADIO FREE ASIA (USA) Worldcrunch On Thursday, Chinese courts sentenced 20 people for terrorist and separatist crimes in Xinjang, a resource-rich autonomous region in northwest China, which is home to the Muslim Uyghur ethnic group. Chinese authorities have stepped up security against the ethnic minority since July. Radio […]
The members of the Russian female punk rock group are on trial for a protest concert in an Orthodox shrine that offended many believers. But now, Church leaders are in a bind of their own as public opinion could sway against them.
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US), FOLHA DE SAO PAULO (Brazil), BBC NEWS (UK), BRASILIA – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has ratified the entry of his country into South American trading bloc Mercosur, a boost to both his reelection chances and the economic influence of the free-trade bloc. Chavez was welcomed to Brazil on Tuesday by […]
HINDUSTAN TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA (India), AFP (France) Power has been fully restored Wednesday in India after a grid failure left more than 600 million people without electricity for two days. The failure of the northern grid in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) on Monday brought the country’s expansive railway system to a […]
BERLIN – Last week it became clear that, as regards the euro, political Europe has overstepped the limits of its power. The joint statement by France’s President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying that “Germany and France are deeply committed to the integrity of the Eurozone and are determined to do everything to […]
REUTERS, BBC NEWS, AL ARABIYA (Saudi Arabia) Worldcrunch Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the conflict between rebels and government forces across Syria will “decide the fate of the nation.” This is a big admission by Assad: “the fate of Syria hinges on this battle”. Likely to be justification for the scale of the […]
MULTAN – Malik Sarfaz, a simple farmer, has been administering justice in his village of Chah Peppal Wala for more than 30 years. Tucked into a particularly poor and rural corner of southern Punjab in Pakistan, this village is situated more than 10 hours away by car from the capital Islamabad. The man with the […]
CLARIN, C5N, MINUTOUNO, JORNADA DE CHUBUT (Argentina) Worldcrunch GIRONA – The son of a prominent Argentinian businessman who lived as a squatter and participated in the Indignados movement in Spain died recently in this city north of Barcelona. His family insists that Juan Pablo Torroija died after Spanish police inflicted a brutal beating, while Spanish […]
PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER, PHILIPPINE STAR (Philippines) Worldcrunch MANILA – Seven people have been confirmed killed from the onslaught of typhoon Saola (also named typhoon Gener) in the Philippines, the Philippine STAR reports. Several others are still missing. Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that 8,298 families or 40,477 […]
The election of an Islamic president in Egypt hasn’t, as many had predicted, resulted in the full opening of borders between Gaza and Egypt. President Morsi, it seems, is in no rush to irk Israel or the U.S. with full support for Hamas-run govern
ADEVARUL, ZIARE.COM (Romania) Worldcrunch BUCHAREST – For the second time since his election in 2004, Romanian President Traian Băsescu survived an impeachment referendum on Sunday. According to the latest numbers from the National electoral bureau, only 46% of the population voted in the poll. Romanian legislation demands 50% participation for a ballot to count. An […]
JAPAN TIMES, ASAHI SHIMBUN, JAPAN TODAY (Japan) Worldcrunch TOKYO – Thousands of people gathered in Tokyo on Sunday to form a human chain around the parliament building, to protest against the reopening of nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster reports the Japan Times. Organizers set up “family” area for parents/children, wheelchair-bound at the Diet. […]
THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE HINDU, HINDUSTAN TIMES (India) A fire on a passenger train in southern India has killed at least 47 people in the early hours of Monday morning. The fire broke out at around 4:30am on a train travelling from Delhi to Chennai, when passing through Nellore in the state of Andhra […]
The news has spread over the social networks in the Argentinean region of Cordoba: “The government of Cordoba pays the ticket for prostitutes to go back to their home region.”
EUROPE 1, FRANCE TV INFO (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – Supporters of the Syrian opposition movement unfurled a huge flag smeared with blood under the Eiffel Tower on Friday, France TV Info reports. “@siyaseee: @alRifai1 #Syria happening in Paris at Eiffel tower twitter.com/celine_lussato…“ — الـثورة الـسورية (@alRifai1) July 27, 2012 The red, white and green flag […]
Brigadier General Manaf Tlas is the most senior Syrian army deserter since the beginning of the uprising. One of President Assad’s oldest friends, Tlas has offered himself up as the man to rally the opposition. But many doubt the sincerity of thi
THE GUARDIAN, THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH, ULSTER TV (UK) Worldcrunch In a statement released to the Guardian on Thursday, three republican terror groups announced they were merging to form a new IRA in Northern Ireland. The Real IRA, the vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) as well as a coalition of smaller dissident groups will […]
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan targets PKK strongholds along the Syrian border after tensions last month sparked by Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish military jet. The move is part of a longstanding conflict over Kurdish minorities who live in b
AMERICA ECONOMIA (Latin America), TERRA COLOMBIA (Colombia), EXCELSIOR (Mexico) Worldcrunch Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that his country would withdraw from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights “out of dignity,” after the Costa-Rica based organization accused Venezuela of “inhumane” jail conditions, America Economia reports. According to Terra Colombia, Hugo Chavez accused the Human Rights Court […]
AFP (France), THE TELEGRAPH (UK), YONHAP (South Korea) Worldcrunch LONDON – Day one of Olympic events started with a major diplomatic gaffe on Wednesday. As the North Korean women’s soccer team was entering Glaskgow’s Hampden Park stadium for the opening match with Colombia, a giant screen showed images of the South Korean flag, French news […]
CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, UNITED DAILY NEWS, TAIWAN NEWS (Taiwan) Worldcrunch BEIJING – According to Xinhua News, Beijing mayor Guo Jinlong, resigned from his post on July 25 along with the vice-mayor, Ji Lin. The very short report did not give an explanation for the resignation of the city’s top officials. Wang Anshun, a Beijing city […]
In parts of northern Syria, Assad’s regime has fallen. In the region between the city of Aleppo and Turkey, the Sunni villagers have already taken control. But what comes next?
Around Africa’s Great Lakes region, the precious metals industry is not getting the most out of its mines. One way to improve the industry would be to include more women in the work force — but resistance runs deep.
KOREA TIMES (South Korea), TWITTER Worldcrunch More than two weeks after the first photos of the couple surfaced, North Korean state media has announced that the nation’s young leader Kim Jong-un is indeed married to “Comrade Ri Sol-ju.” The couple had been photographed together early July at a concert, during a visit to an amusement […]
REUTERS, BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), HURRIYET (Turkey) Worldcrunch Troops loyal to Syrian president Bashar al- Assad converged on Aleppo on Wednesday as fighting between rebel and governmental forces intensified, signaling a shift of the uprising against the regime that began last year to a full-blown insurgency. BBC News and Reuters reported that the regime […]