Women in Saudi Arabia have begun the struggle for equality on a basic right that is not even questioned in most Western nations – the right to vote. Registration for the privilege in upcoming municipal elections, scheduled to be held in September for only the second time in the past half century, began April 23.
In contrast to the vast relief exhibited by most people in the Western world, Arabs have reacted in myriad ways to the assassination of chief al-Qaeda terrorist Osama Bin Laden -- and some have issued death threats to U.S. President Barack Obama.
The IDF granted certificates of appreciation to the forces that found the perpetrators of the Fogel family massacre in Itamar several weeks ago.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will likely issue arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam, and several Libyan officials within the next weeks, according to a report that Mr. Ocampo plans to present before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.
The Central Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday that it feared Pakistan might “alert†Osama Bin Laden about the raid and therefore did not inform Pakistani authorities about the assault on the Al-Qaeda leader’s home in Abbottabad last Sunday.
Pakistan authorities said on Tuesday that they have arrested members of Osama Bin Laden’s family. They were taken into custody at Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, which US Special Forces raided on Sunday, killing the Al-Qaeda leader.
National Union Knesset Members Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz and Aryeh Eldad, and Yisrael Beiteinu MK David Rotem, accused three Arab legislators who are at the Fatah-Hamas unity signing of being disloyal to the State of Israel.
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Ground Zero Thursday, five days after U.S. forces killed Osama Bin Laden, who ordered the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
MK Ibrahim Sarsoor of the extremist Arab list Ra'am Ta'al called the assassination of Osama Bin Laden a "murder" and said that it was carried out as part of Barack Obama's preparations for the next presidential elections.
British police said Tuesday that they arrested five men under anti-terrorism laws near a nuclear power plant in northwest England.