Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011. Following the successful adoption yesterday of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya, President Obama called Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. The leaders agreed that Libya must immediately comply with all terms of the resolution and[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
President Obama Signs Illinois Disaster Declaratoin
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011. Yesterday, the President declared a major disaster exists in the State of Illinois and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm and snowstorm during the period of January 31 to February 3, 2011. Federal[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton With Tunisian Foreign Minister Mouldi Kefi
Tunis, Tunisia–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011. FOREIGN MINISTER KEFI: (Via interpreter) At the outset at first, I would like to apologize to you journalists for this delay and the delay in the program. You journalists and the press, you are the force of power and today in Tunis, on behalf of[Read More…]
DOD Identifies Air Force Casualty. March 17, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2011. The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation New Dawn. Senior Airmen Michael J. Hinkle II, 24, of Corona, Calif., died March 16 due to a non-combat related incident in Southwest Asia. He was assigned to the 28th Communications[Read More…]
International Atomic Energy Agency Japanese Earthquake Update, 18 March (12:25 UTC)
Vienna, Austria–(ENEWSPF)–18 March 2011 -12:25 UTC. Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that, prior to the earthquake of 12 March, the entire fuel core of reactor unit 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had been unloaded from the reactor and placed in the spent fuel pond located in[Read More…]
Gas In Chicago Heights Approaches $4 Per Gallon
This Citgo station across from St. Agnes in Chicago Heights is very, very close to $4.00 per gallon. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Gas prices brush dangerously close to $4.00 per gallon this past Sunday in Chicago Heights. How long unil prices top the $4.00 per gallon mark?
Former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson Comments On Upcoming Memoirs (Video Interview)
Oak Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson shares with eNews Park Forest readers news of her upcoming memoirs, tentatively titled Breaking Through: The Obama Years. Due in time for the Christmas season. Halvorson served as the first, and still only, female senate majority leader for the state of Illinois. She[Read More…]
NATO: ‘Strengthening European Security’
Warsaw, Poland–(ENEWSPF)–17 March 2011. Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. President Komorowski, Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great pleasure for me to be back in Warsaw. When I visited Warsaw one year ago a document was handed over to me. A document prepared by students, scholars and[Read More…]
Pro-Gbagbo Forces Shell Market in Côte d’Ivoire, Killing at Least 25
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 March 2011 – The United Nations peacekeeping operation in Côte d’Ivoire expressed outrage today after armed forces allied to the defeated president Laurent Gbagbo shelled a market in a neighbourhood of the commercial capital, Abidjan, killing 25 to 30 people and wounding dozens more. The mission, known as[Read More…]
UN Security Council Authorizes ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Protect Civilians in Libya
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 March 2011 – The Security Council today effectively authorized the use of force in Libya to protect civilians from attack, specifically in the eastern city of Benghazi, which Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi has reportedly said he will storm tonight to end a revolt against his regime. Acting under Chapter[Read More…]
