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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived here Wednesday to mend fences with Syria and strengthen regional cooperation in a move that some hope could advance President Barack Obama’s Middle East peace plans.
The two day visit by the king – his first...
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Saudi Arabia is experiencing a patriotic high. Saudi media is beeming with pride. Saudi Arabia’s armed forced are courageously fighting against Yemeni Hawthi...
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Saudi Arabia said Monday it had captured 250 Yemeni rebels and regained control of a strategic mountain that straddles the border between the two countries after a...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Saudi Arabia said Friday it carried airstrikes against “infiltrators” from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to continue...
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Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...
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A 22 year old man from Saudi Arabia has been awarded this death sentence, he is to be beheaded and crucified after he was found guilty of luring and raping kids from...
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As millions of Muslims begin arriving in Mecca for this year’s pilgrimage, Saudi officials face a unique challenge: how to prevent this sacred rite from becoming an...
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Next month’s pilgrimage, the largest international gathering in the world, provides “perfect” conditions for the spread of the H1N1 pandemic flu virus, scientists...
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I think men have put women in an unfavorable position in this part of the world. They’ve put women in an oppressive situation.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has pardoned a woman journalist who was sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a controversial TV show in which a Saudi man boasted...
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A female journalist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 60 lashes over a TV show in which a Saudi man described his extra-marital sex life.
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Many marriages are loveless, and then turn bitter with the husband and wife shouting obscenities at one another so cruel that one wonders why they even stay together...
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There really should a comedy sitcom dedicating to the lives of Persian Gulf princes. There is endless material for laughter. “Those Gulf Royals” would...
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The Russia’s scientists and theologians are surprised with the spontaneous emergence of inscriptions on the body of a toddler of Dagestan.
According to European...
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A lot is made in the American press about Arab worries (really the worries of illegitimate and authoritarian Arab regimes, no more and no less) of a nuclear Iran. In...
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They are a desert king and a military officer-turned-president. Drive through their capitals and their images glow from billboards and painted walls, old men with their...
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Saudi Arabia may join the list of countries seeking financial aid over the UN climate deal. According to a Forbes.com report, during the UN’s recent greenhouse gas...
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Mr Abdul-Jawad appeared on a Lebanese chat show, Bold Red Line, in July. In the programme, which could be seen by TV viewers in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, he...
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The bomb was hidden inside the al-Qaeda assassin’s body, and he arrived on his target’s personal plane.
The target was Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a senior...
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America is putting the final touches to a hugely ambitious peace plan for the Middle East, aimed at ending more than 60 years of conflict between Israel and the Arabs,...
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While Israel was brutally massacring Palestinians in Gaza, the inept and corrupt King Abdullah of Jordan was busy ignoring the suffering of the Palestinians and praying...
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Finally some promising news out of Saudi Arabia, one of the most socially and politically repressive societies in the world today, where rape victims are punished,...
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Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to analysts and oil...
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I am making a big assumption here – that President George Bush is capable of feeling any sense of embarrassment.
For the second time in five months, the Saudis have...
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Being that you are next in line to the Almighty, I am neither going to be fresh nor will I try to economize the truth.
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