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British expatriates wild parties have left Dubai struggling to prevent its Muslim culture from waning, say reports.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oil prices fluctuated Monday as traders shrugged off a pledge by Saudi Arabia to increase its production and the dollar gained strength in Europe.
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.
King Abdullah has blamed soaring oil prices on speculators, high fuel taxes in consuming countries and increased consumption in developing countries.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
