| Bahrain to quit Arabsat in protest | | Bahrain has decided to stop broadcasting its channels on Arabsat satellite from June 1 to protest what it said the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation’s failure to stop a hostile media campaign by Iranian channels against Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. | | Calm returns to Cairo after day of clash | | Calm returned to Cairo on Saturday after Egypt’s military rulers imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry following fierce clashes between troops and protesters that killed two people. | | Qatar lends Tunisia $500 million | | Tunisia’s Central Bank said Thursday it had finalised a loan of half a billion dollars from Qatar, one of the main foreign backers of the revolution that brought the Islamists to power. | | UN vote on Syria mission faces Russia doubts | | UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council will vote Saturday on a Western-drafted resolution allowing a ceasefire observer mission in Syria even though Russia’s support is in doubt. | | Yemen: Fighting in south kills 50 militants | | SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni artillery and military aircraft backing pro-government tribesmen have pounded al-Qaida fighters trying to battle their way into a strategic town in the country’s south, while a suspected U.S. airstrike killed at least 12 militants, officials said. | | Libyan gunmen kidnap 5 Tunisian smugglers | | Libyan gunmen kidnapped five Tunisian fuel smugglers near the border on Saturday and Tunisian authorities temporarily closed the main crossing of Ras Jder pending negotiations for their release, a Tunisian security source said. | | Police clash with anti-gov’t protesters in central Tunis | | TUNIS - Police clashed with thousands of anti-government protesters who tried to storm Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis on Monday, defying a ban on demonstrations in the area - a focal point of the revolt that ousted Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali over a year ago. | |
