Monthly Archives: June 2011

Bin Laden widow Amal Ahmad Al Sada is expected to return to Yemen "in the coming days," Gulf News reports.

Iran accused the United States of using terrorism to further its goals in the Middle East Wednesday, after its oil delegation was attacked by "terrorists" during a diplomatic visit to Iraq.

Pakistan is decorating bus stops with Quranic verses and Islamic calligraphy to give a more spiritual flavor to the capital Islamabad, long considered one of the country’s most liberal cities.

Vandals struck a northern Greece Holocaust memorial for 50,000 Jews slaughtered in the Nazi era, the European Jewish Press reported. The anti-Semites left behind a Star of David and a swastika along with a message, ”That’s a lie” scrawled on the bronze plaque at the memorial.

The Palestinian Authority is claiming that authorization by the Israeli government for the Noble Gas firm to explore the waters off the coast of Gaza for potential natural gas fields constitutes “theft.” Noble has developed other productive gas reservoirs in Israel, including several off the coast of Haifa.

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan took advantage of a ceremony on Tuesday, during which he received an honorary degree at the Academic College of Netanya, to fire back at the Prime Minister’s Office, after the latter announced earlier in the week that his diplomatic passport must be returned.

In a sudden reversal of its previous decision, the provost of Yale University has announced the re-establishment of the interdisciplinary program on the study of anti-Semitism. Provost Peter Salovey, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology at Yale, said in a letter dated June 19th that, “I have been gratified to learn that Professor Maurice Samuels and a group of faculty colleagues have expressed interest in the creation of a new scholarly enterprise, the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism (YPSA), and that the Whitney Humanities Center has agreed to sponsor it.”

Police on Tuesday admitted that they were out of ideas on how to stem the high level of crime in the cities of “the triangle,”

An unconfirmed report by the Reform Party of Syria claims that Rami Makhluf, Assad’s cousin and the country’s richest businessman, has fled the country with his immediate family in a private jet.