Did she press Bahrain for more and faster-paced reforms? Or was it a quick handshake and the proverbial pat on the back?
Huh? Yeah, that was the condition for them to be accepted into the WTO club: Saudi Arabia has agreed to end all economic boycotts of Israel, allowing the World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday to admit the oil-rich kingdom as its 149th member, diplomats said. Saudi officials did not comment on the Israel boycott, which had …
Got one of these yesterday, my trusty Nokia 6300 almost snuffed it when I accidently poured a bottle of water on it. But it was Evian so I don’t know why the hell it was complaining (there was nothing else in the mini-fridge so gimme a break 🙁 ) Almost a week after the “incident” …
What the hell were they thinking? Hosting a forum for the Future in an Arab country was going to get them some results, a-la Americano style? No friggin’ way man! So they declared it a failure: Mideast reform meeting ends in confusion MANAMA (Reuters) – A Middle East reform conference promoted by the United States …
If the debacle of the Ministry of DISinformation is anything to go by when they denied bars, restaurants and hotels to serve alcohol during Ramadhan, and then penalised the ones they did allow to serve the good stuff for 7 days after the end of the “holly month”, they might as well cancel Christmas altogether …