DUBAI (Al Arabiya, Agencies) Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, will start the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Wednesday along with most other Gulf states, regional media reported on Tuesday.

German television channel RTL2 has said it is launching a special service for Muslim viewers during Ramadan, letting them know when to begin and end the daily fast.

Israel has threatened to pull out of a UN investigation into its May 31 attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy as the international probe seeks to question Israeli soldiers.

London, (IRNA): British Muslims are being urged to ensure that they do not inadvertently eat Israeli dates when breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan in protest at the continued occupation of Palestinian territories.

A group of Muslim women protested for “free speech” after two others were advised they could not speak about their conversion experience at the front of a public meeting attended by men last night.

At least 60 people have been killed and 70 others injured by a triple bombing that ripped through the center of Iraq’s southern port city of Basra.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Journalist for Haaretz newspaper Amira Hass said the Israeli occupation forces kidnap every year about 700 Palestinian children, many of them are rounded up from schools, at the pretext of throwing stones at troops and settlers.

WARSAW (AFP) A Polish court on Thursday upheld a decision to extradite an alleged Israeli agent to Germany over claims he was linked to the killing in Dubai of a leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

A series of explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, killing at least one policeman and wounding dozens others, according to police.

A Japanese oil tanker damaged in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman last month was hit by an explosives-laden dinghy, the Emirati state news agency has said.