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Jul 12 2008, David

British expatriates wild parties have left Dubai struggling to prevent its Muslim culture from waning, say reports.

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Jul 16 2008 by AP0 Comments

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia exhorted followers of the world’s leading faiths to turn away from extremism and embrace a spirit of reconciliation, saying at the start of an interfaith conference Wednesday that history’s great conflicts were not caused by religion itself but by its misinterpretation.

 
 
Jul 16 2008 by AP1 Comments

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was kicking off an interfaith conference in Madrid on Wednesday _ an effort to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews closer together amid a world that often puts the three faiths at odds.

 
 
Jul 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or witchcraft, a human rights group said Tuesday.

 
 
Jul 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or witchcraft, a human rights group said Tuesday.

 
 
Jun 25 2008 by AP0 Comments

Saudi authorities have arrested 701 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants this year, including some who were plotting attacks against the kingdom’s oil and economic installations, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

 
 
Jun 25 2008 by AP0 Comments

Saudi officials say authorities have arrested hundreds of suspected al-Qaida-linked militants this year. Some of those arrested are suspected of plotting attacks against the kingdom’s oil and economic installations.

 
 
Jun 23 2008 by AP0 Comments

Oil prices rose Monday on disappointment over Saudi Arabia’s modest production increase and concerns that output from Nigeria will decline. Retail gas prices, meanwhile, inched lower overnight, but appear unlikely to change much as long as oil prices remain stuck in their recent trading range.

 
 
Jun 23 2008 by AP0 Comments

Oil prices fluctuated Monday as traders shrugged off a pledge by Saudi Arabia to increase its production and the dollar gained strength in Europe.

 
 
Jun 22 2008 by AP3 Comments

Saudi Arabia’s oil minister says the kingdom is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, but he cited no specific production increase.

 
 
Jun 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

King Abdullah has blamed soaring oil prices on speculators, high fuel taxes in consuming countries and increased consumption in developing countries.

 
 
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Jun 10 2008 by Atul3 Comments

It is surprising that people cater to the public in general and then they fail in drawing mass attention simply because the idea isn’t clear enough. Being innovative is one thing but when it relates to everybody it has to be lucid as well. I guess...

 
 
May 19 2008 by Arpita Mukherjee1 Comments

The West might rebuff it as preposterous while the East might defend it as its tradition, but arranged marriages nonetheless cannot be ruled out in the Asian culture. Marriages in these countries are more of a contract between two families and little...

 
 
May 13 2008 by Arpita Mukherjee8 Comments

The strict Islamic laws restricting movement of women, takes preposterous dimension in Saudi Arabia where men and women are treated in a manner as if they are two different species. Shrouded in dark colored abayas or traditional Saudi attires for...

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Dec 16 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Saudi King Abdullah (center) with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Ismail Hanaiya of the Hamas (right). Mr Abbas was elected on a Fatah ticket

Even as the emergency government formed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considered...

 
 
Dec 5 2007 by Apabrita0 Comments

With the world facing some major oil crisis, now is an excellent time to produce more oil. Otherwise, the gas prices in the US as well as throughout the world is more than likely to skyrocket in coming years. Keeping this in mind, OPEC was asked to...

 
 
Nov 22 2007 by Maynard1 Comments

Among the US allies in the fight against terror in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya emerged as the two nations with the highest number of soldiers who came to Iraq to help the American soldiers extinguish terror attacks in the area.

Around 60 percent from...

 
 
Nov 17 2007 by Arpita Mukherjee1 Comments

What can be called a travesty of judiciary, the Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council has actually sentenced a rape victim to receive 200 lashes and prison while the perpetrators of humanity’s most heinous crime were allowed to walk free.

The...

 
 
Nov 5 2007 by Rhapsodysinger0 Comments

The wicked of this earth never change. Rapists continue raping, murderers get addicted to serial-killing and pedophiles carry on abusing children. Drug-traffickers enjoy sending our kids to death while their own bank accounts swell. Mistaken, cravenly...

 
 
Nov 1 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Britain and the United States have made it clear time and again that Saudi Arabia, despite its regular and public human rights abuses, is and will always be a strategic partner in the war on terror. But more than the fight against Al-Qaeda, London...

 
 
Oct 30 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

The Saudi monarch, King Abdullah’s visit of the United Kingdom may be shrouded in a lot of political and economical controversies, but it just cannot be denied the important role he plays in helping the western countries to tackle Al-Qaeda. The first...

 
 
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In this Thursday, June 19, 2008 file photo, a Saudi man fuels his vehicle at a gasoline station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While the country is getting richer selling oil at prices that have climbed to new records, inflation has reached almost 11 percent,...