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Saudi Arabia just declared homosexuality, feminism and atheism as ‘extremism’
Homosexuality, feminism and atheism are classed as extremist ideas in Saudi Arabia, according to an official video from the country's Security Agency.
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Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics, say prosecutors
A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi officials to recruit employees at the social media giant.
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UN orders Saudi Arabia to stop stoning children
The United Nations has called on Saudi Arabia to repeal laws that allow stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children. Children over 15 years are tried as adults and can be executed, "after trials falling short of guarantees of due process and a fair trial", according to the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Uncovering secrets of mystery civilization in Saudi Arabia
A team of researchers is carrying out the first in-depth archaeological survey of part of Saudi Arabia, in a bid to shed light on a mysterious civilisation that once lived there. The Nabataean culture left behind sophisticated stone monuments, but many sites remain unexplored. The rock-strewn deserts of Al Ula in Saudi Arabia are known for their pitch-black skies, which allow stargazers to easily study celestial bodies without the problem of light pollution.
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Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for first time
Saudi Arabia said Friday it will offer tourist visas for the first time, opening up the ultra-conservative kingdom to holidaymakers as part of a push to diversify its economy away from oil. Kickstarting tourism is one of the centrepieces of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 reform programme to prepare the biggest Arab economy […]
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The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
The hideous cruelty of the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad almost a year ago still jumps from the pages of the latest apparent transcript of the conversation between his killers as they wait for him to arrive at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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White House Describes Saudi Oil Attack as “Their 9/11”
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi citizens.
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Attack that wiped out half of Saudi Arabia's oil production came from Iran, US official says
A senior US official told Reuters the attack on two Saudi oil facilities appears to have come from the direction of Iran, not the Yemeni Houthi group that claimed it.
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Saudi Arabia allows women to travel independently
Women over 21 can now apply for a passport without a male guardian, but other restrictions remain.
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'We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever' – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees – Byline Times
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom's notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
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Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
Saudi Arabia has quietly directed tens of millions of dollars a year to American universities from M.I.T. to Northern Kentucky. What are the nation’s rulers getting out of it?
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Climate report could be dropped from UN talks after 'gentleman's agreement' made under Saudi pressure
A major study on how to limit global warming could be dropped from formal UN climate talks in Bonn this week after a “gentlemen’s agreement” was made under pressure from Saudi Arabia. Last December four large oil producers, Saudi Arabia, the US, Kuwait and Russia, refused to endorse the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which shows what the world could look like under 1.5C of warming.
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British arms sales to Saudi Arabia deemed unlawful, but now the hard work begins
The onus is on MPs to ensure the government respects a legal ruling criticising the export of weapons used in Yemen
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What you need to know about CIA’s Iran Mission Center
The agency set up a special unit on Iran, predating the Trump administration, that some hawks fretted was not focusing enough on regime change. By Vijay Prashad.
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Kuwait and Saudi Arabia record highest temperature on earth
The heatwave is expected to continue well into the summer season
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The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking the IMEI number on their cellphones
Women who flee Saudi Arabia expect to be chased. They expect their friends to be interviewed, their social media to be scoured, their passports to be frozen. They mostly do not expect Saudi government agents to hunt down the old box for their iPhone.
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He was arrested at 13. Now Saudi Arabia wants to execute him
When Murtaja Qureiris was a child, he led protests demanding rights for Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority. Now he faces the death penalty.
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Trump invokes emergency powers to sidestep congress and sell arms to Saudi Arabia
Donald Trump has asserted rarely used emergency powers to sidestep congressional objections, and give the green light to an arms deal involving Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, told the leaders of several congressional committees the president was claiming a national emergency existed because of a purported threat from Iran and was, as a result, giving permission for 22 arms deals with around $8bn (£6.3bn).
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Saudi Fugitives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight against terrorism. By Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.
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EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Arabia to execute three prominent moderate scholars after Ramadan
The treatment of Salman al-Odah, Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari, all facing charges of 'terrorism', has been condemned by rights groups
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