Arab World Protests Extend to Yemen

First Tunisia, then Egypt, and now Yemen: The wave of protests that has hit the Arab world extended to Yemen on Thursday, as tens of thousands of local residents hit the streets in a series of protests nationwide. The Yemenis were demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled for nearly 32 years, step […]

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Iran Becomes President of OPEC

by Chana Ya’ar The 12 member nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have elected Iran, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer and one of its founding members, to become the organization’s 2011 president. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced Thursday the Islamic Republic would take up the rotating presidency in the 50-year-old organization […]

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Muslim Bites off Rabbi’s Finger at Lighting

A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria. The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, […]

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