Source | Islam Today
Kishinev | 01 June 2011

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has pledged to review the recent registration of Islam as one of the country's recognized religions, Moldovan news sources report.

Prime Minister Filat made the pledge at a meeting with Metropolitan Vladimir, the head of the powerful Moldovan Orthodox Church.

Source : Ghazanfar Ali Khan | Arab News
RIYADH | 31 May 2011

Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan have set out a new vision of bilateral relations by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation in the field of diplomacy, research and international affairs in Riyadh on Sunday.

Source : AP
CAIRO | 31 May 2011

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt’s military rulers have discussed Middle East peace efforts.

The official Middle East News Agency said Monday that Abbas thanked Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Military Council, for Egypt’s support of the Palestinians.

Source : Reuters
TEHRAN | 31 May 2011

Three hundred drug traffickers are on death row in Iran, the judiciary said, reflecting Tehran’s hard line on narcotics which has added to international concerns over its extensive use of capital punishment.

“For 300 drug-related convicts, including those who were in possession of at least 30 grams of heroin, execution verdicts have been issued,” Sharq daily quoted Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying on Monday.

Source : Rahim Faiez  | AP
KABUL | 31 May 2011

A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the gates of an Italian military base in Herat Monday and a second explosion ripped through a busy downtown intersection in the normally peaceful western city, officials said. At least four Afghans were killed. Five Italian soldiers were wounded, one of them gravely, Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said.

Source | Cihan News Agency
Jeddah | 31 May 2011

The Turkish secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, began a tour of African countries on Monday to strengthen cooperation among the African members of the 56-nation organization.

İhsanoğlu will be visiting Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Niger before wrapping up his visit on June 7. The visits take place at the invitation of the seven countries.

Source | Reuters
Doha | 29 May 2011

The Arab League decided on Saturday to seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the besiged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, with occupied East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Arab League's peace process committee, meeting in Doha, said it would request membership for the state of Palestine at the U.N. General Assembly's meeting in New York in September.

Source : Bassem Mroue | AP
BEIRUT | 29 May 2011

Syrian government troops backed by tanks attacked two central towns Sunday in an attempt to stop round-the-clock protests there against President Bashar Assad’s regime, killing at least two people and wounding several others, activists and a rights group said.

Security forces in several other parts of the country fired on crowds holding overnight demonstrations, causing casualties, activists said.

Source |  Arab News

MAKKAH | 29 May 2011

The number of holy water distribution outlets at the King Abdullah Zamzam Water Purification Project in Kudai will be increased to 42.

The increase is part of the new development projects and modifications, set to be launched shortly, Al-Madinah daily reported quoting well-informed sources.

Source : Islam Today
Monday | 30 May 2011

Islamic teachers and imams in America have begun signing an open letter declaring that there is no clash between their religious faith and the theory of biological evolution.

The Imam Letter, launched this week in the US, is the latest challenge to Creationists of the three Abrahamic religions who reject evolution in favour of Creationism.

Creationism is the religious belief that all species were created in exactly the form they appear today.