AMMAN – The Independent Elections Commission (IEC) on Tuesday announced that the upcoming parliamentary elections will be held on January 23, 2013, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The IEC also announced that filing candidacy applications for the elections will start on December 22 and will continue for three days, according to the law.
Israel celebrará elecciones anticipadas el próximo 22 de enero. El Parlamento israelí ha aprobado este lunes por 100 votos favor y ninguno en contra la disolución de las cortes y la celebración de los comicios, que se adelantan nueve meses sobre la fecha prevista para octubre de 2013.
Iranian lawmakers have once again launched a motion to impeach Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Violence in Syria has killed at least 33,082 people, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said yesterday. Some 1,000 people have been killed in the past five days alone, the Britain-based watchdog said. “This is all-out war-there is no other way to describe the violence in Syria,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. At least 23,630 civilians have been killed, along with 8,211 soldiers and 1,241 army defectors who joined the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad.
Campaigning for the first Palestinian elections since 2006 began on Saturday, the Central Electoral Commission said. Municipal elections in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank will take place on October 20, with campaigning lasting 13 days, the CEC added.
National Assembly was subjected to a delicate constitutional scrutiny by experts and law professors to make sure that it does not have any constitutional violations in it. The source confirmed approving the decree any minute besides other decrees to call for new elections, the state’s budget and transforming Kuwait Airways into a shareholding company, as the Government considers them to be laws that cannot be delayed to meet the urgency requirement, according to Article 71 of the Constitution.
El ejército turco ha bombardeado este sábado Siria por cuarto día consecutivo tras un nuevo impacto de fuego de mortero en Turquía lanzado desde el lado sirio, según informó esta mañana la agencia estatal de noticias turca. Esta vez, el proyectil cayó en una zona rural cercana al poblado de Guvecci, en la provincia de Hatay, en el extremo sudoeste de Turquía, sin que nadie resultara herido. La artillería turca respondió inmediatamente, según la agencia. Un incidente similar ocurrió la víspera en otro distrito de la misma provincia.
Sur les neuf nouveaux sigles, seul Taj peut prétendre à une certaine notoriété, même s’il y a, à peine quatre mois, il était insensé de parier sur la création de ce parti.
Abdalá II, el rey de Jordania ha ordenado la disolución del Parlamento y ha convocado elecciones anticipadas en un momento en el que las voces que piden reformas políticas y mejoras económicas se escuchan cada vez con más fuerza en el reino hachemita.
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday visited the Baabda Presidential Palace and met with Lebanon’s top political and religious leaders during the second day of his thre-day visit to the country.
The pontiff was greeted by President Michel Suleiman and his wife at the entrance of the palace.
Following the meeting with Suleiman, the pope also held talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih Berri.
He later met with Lebanon’s religious leaders representing the different sects that constitute Lebanon’s religious makeup.
UN-Arab League envoy has first meeting with Syrian president since accepting envoy's role amid reports of new killings.
Syrian state television says UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has met President Bashar al-Assad to discuss efforts to end the country's 18-month-old conflict that activists say has killed more than 27,000 people.
Saturday's meeting was Brahimi's first with Assad since he replaced Kofi Annan as peace envoy two weeks ago, taking on a mission which the veteran Algerian diplomat described as "nearly impossible".
Insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad cannot be considered freedom of speech, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said today in relation to protests that are sweeping the world in response to an anti-Islam film. At the same time, however, such insults do not provide people with the right to attack others, Erdoğan said in the Ukrainian city of Yalta. “Those who made this movie should be condemned in the harshest terms. But insulting religion cannot be an excuse to attack people,” Erdoğan said, according to daily Hürriyet.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Iranian supreme leader said the US and Zionists' hands can be seen behind the move, and said if Washington statesmen claim to be not involved in this sacrilege of Islam and Islamic values, they should punish those who have designed and orchestrated the move.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Yemen’s capital yesterday to denounce violence a day after a failed attempt to assassinate the defence minister killed 12 people.
Protesters answering a call to demonstrate “against terrorism and assassinations” also slammed ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh whom they accuse of fuelling violence, and called for an end to his immunity from prosecution.
“Terrorism and Al Qaeda are Ali Saleh and his sons,” chanted demonstrators in the protest called by a group of activists from the Committee of Youth of the Peaceful Revolution.
Cincuenta observadores internacionales verifican el alto el fuego declarado el 14 de abril mientras continúa la violencia en distintos puntos del país
La violencia continúa en el país con violentos enfrentamientos entre el Ejército y los opositores
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