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Saudi stock market drops 6.5-percent amid Egyptian unrest

RIYADH – The Saudi stock market, the largest Arab bourse, dropped 6.43 percent to 6267.22 points on Saturday as tensions soared in Egypt where deadly anti-government protests continued for a fifth day. The market has been gripped by severe anxiety because of the events in Egypt, traders in Saudi Arabia…

Obama called on Egypt’s government to refrain from violence

In his first address on the political unrest in Egypt, President Barack Obama called on the Egyptian government to refrain from committing violence against peaceful protesters. “The people of Egypt have rights that are universal,” Obama said. The US president stated that President Hosni Mubarak should restore the protesters’ rights to…

Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties, poll finds

Partisan news missing the point: Youth, poor have greater reason for dissatisfaction than tea parties Predictions of a youth uprising sweeping the United States in 2011 appear to be turning increasingly true, according to a recent poll. Figures supporting that hypothesis, produced by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) for…

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