The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry requests that all non-Muslims currently in Saudi Arabia refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in public. "Authorities will take deterrent measures such as terminating work contracts of, and deporting, violators" [1]
Conflict in Iraq: A rocket attack in southern Baghdad kills two U.S. soldiers and injures five others, while in the northern city of Mosul a suicide car bomb detonated near a U.S. military convoy kills a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis and injures 27 others. (ABC/AP)(News.com.au)
Workers in Nigeria begin a four day general strike in protest of fuel price increases caused by the last year's repeal of government subsidies. (BBC)
Early results in the first round of Lithuania's general election show the opposition Labour Party winning the largest proportion of the vote. (BBC)
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