The Syrian warfare started with peaceful protests in March 2011. The government decided then to stop them and before the world realised what was happening the situation turned into a sectarian civil war which has cost more than 80,000 lives. In the process many countries have decided to position themselves into different sides of the conflict thus threatening to develop into what could escalate as a war in the region. Read the rest of this entry »

Given the desperate state of politics in Italy, Italian lawmakers made an unprecedented move to solve it by re-electing their governing president Giorgio Napolitano, two months after parliamentary election turned inconclusive. Read the rest of this entry »

Among worries of unemployment growing, and life become thus financially harder, the French have decided that battling about the possibility of gay marriage was important to them. Read the rest of this entry »

At the end of a week that began with what many people expected to be a happy day for the runners and for the spectators of the well know Boston marathon on Monday, Read the rest of this entry »

This past weeks Latin America has been quite often in the news. First with the death of Hugo Chavez and the elections about to take place in Venezuela; then the referendum in the Falklands and the past week with the election of the first Latinamerican pope, an Argentinian. Now is the turn of Chile and its expresident Michelle Bachelet. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of days ago when the election for the new pope began we expressed our hope that the man elected to be pope would be honest, open to the world and charitable. Well, since yesterday evening we know who is the new pope: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a 76-year-old Argentine, the first Latin American pope and the first jesuit. Read the rest of this entry »

The Falkands Islanders have voted overwhelming to stay British. It was really not surprise that, in a community that still remembers clearly the memory of Argentina’s invasion in 1982 and the liberation by the British forces after a three-week land war, any other vote could have happen. Read the rest of this entry »