Palash Ghosh

Saudi Arabia may be forced to use its oil policy and enormous economic clout as a way to foil Iran’s nuclear power program and regional ambitions, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Up to 40, perhaps many more, al-Qaeda militants have escaped from a jail in southern Yemen, according to prison officials.

Breaking ranks with most other western allies, Italy has called for the end of fighting in Libya.

Singapore, like much of Southeast Asia, has very draconian laws, particularly with respect to drug trafficking – for which, a conviction often leads to the death penalty.

The Greek parliament has voted favorably on a motion of confidence for the government of George Papandreou, Reuters reports.

Officials from Turkey and Israel are meeting secretly to restore the relations between the two nations, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, has gained a majority of seats in Lebanon’s new cabinet. The move has led to much concern both in the West and Israel about what this development could mean.

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip visited with Britain’s Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street to celebrate the prince’s 90th birthday with a lunch.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is livid over critical comments made by some top military officers regarding the NATO campaign in Libya.

Roger Ebert wrote the following explanation for his comments about Ryan Dunn in his column in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper:

Small Indian carrier GoAir has placed a contract valued at $7.2-billion to purchase 72 airplanes from Airbus – a reflection of soaring aircraft demand in the subcontinent.

Despite the attention became focused upon the drunk-driving death of former MTV star Ryan Dunn, the incidence of DUI deaths has actually been decreasing in the U.S.

I have vague memories of a postal strike in Britain which lasted almost two months in 1971.

As outrage gathers over film critic Roger Ebert’s insensitive comments following the death of “Jackass” TV star Ryan Dunn, almost exactly two years ago a similar controversy erupted over the passing of a much bigger celebrity, Michael Jackson.

Lisa Raitt, the Canadian Minister of Labor, said her Federal Conservative party has introduced a law to end the strike that has paralyzed the nation’s state-owned postal system, Canada Post.

Ryan Dunn, the former MTV star of the hit show “Jackass,” wrote the following column for “Chester Country Cuisine and Night Life” of Chester County, Penn., in April 2009:

Fitch Ratings agency has warned any voluntary rollover by commercial lenders of Greece’s debt would be regarded as a “default,” putting even more pressure on Euro Zone ministers and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is facing a crucial vote of confidence.

The euro currency in its current form will doomed and the euro zone will collapse, warned former UK foreign secretary and current Labour MP Jack Straw.

In a reflection of how the British workforce’s skills might not match up with the requirements of available work, May figures from the Department and Work and Pensions (DWP) indicated that 10,000 jobs remained unfilled over the past three months or more at Jobcentre Plus, despite a rise in the number of people filing for unemployment insurance benefits.

A U.S.-flagged boat is planning to break the blockade enforced around Gaza by the Israeli navy.

British students are expected to walk out en masse later this month in solidarity with their teachers who are planning a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s pension reform plans.

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has issued an ultimatum on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: make democratic reforms or step down from power.

Turkey is continuing to pressure its neighbor and ally Syria to implement more democratic reforms, suggesting growing impatience in Ankara over the intransigence of President Bashar al-Assad.

Greece should be allowed to default on its debts, go bankrupt and exit the euro, said Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, amidst growing weariness in Europe over Greece’s continuing financial woes.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, the nation’s largest union with 1.3-million members, has vowed to stage massive rallies this summer and autumn and beyond to protest against Westminster’s pension reforms.

Pro-democracy protesters in Morocco are dissatisfied by the package of constitutional reforms the country’s king unveiled on a television broadcast last night.

Guatemalan authorities have arrested the former chief of armed forces, Hector Mario Lopez-Fuentes, on charges of genocide committed during the country’s civil war that raged for more than three decades from 1960 to 1996.

Thousands of corrupt Chinese government officials have stolen more than $120-billion from the mid-1990s to 2008, according to a report from China’s central bank.

The king of Morocco is preparing to introduce a series of constitutional reforms likely in a bid to prevent the kind of massive unrest witnessed across the Arab world and North Africa.