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Saudi Arabia carrying out 'unprecedented wave' of executions
An artist sentenced to death for apostasy. Three young Shia Muslims - arrested when they were minors - faced with beheading. And reports in the Saudi press of the imminent execution of more than 50 people. Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty has sparked international alarm. The country's human rights record has been back in the news since January, when liberal blogger Raif Badawi was flogged after being convicted of insulting Islam.
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Pakistani in California Shooting Became Hardline in Saudi Arabia
The estranged relatives of Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani woman accused of shooting dead 14 people in California, say she and her father seem to have abandoned the family's moderate Islam and became more radicalized during years they spent in Saudi Arab
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Saudi Women Allowed to Vote for First Time
On Saturday 12 December Saudi Arabia will go to the polls, and women in the country will be voting and standing for office for the first time.
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Why aren’t we looking into the Saudi role in San Bernardino attack?
Shooter Tashfeen Malik was radicalized in Saudi Arabia, her Pakistani family said. By Neil Macdonald.
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Saudi prince slams Trump as 'disgrace' to America
Controversial business magnate Donald Trump continues to draw ire overseas. Billionaire Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal slammed the presidential candidate on Friday, calling him a "disgrace" to the Republican Party and "to all America." In a tweet, he said Trump should withdraw from the presidential race, as he "will never win."
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Islamic State Twitter accounts have been traced back to a surprising source
Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic State supporters' social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions. A group of four young computer experts who call themselves VandaSec have unearthed evidence indicating that at least three ISIS-supporting accounts can be traced back to the DWP.
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Is Saudi Arabia to blame for Islamic State?
Is so-called Islamic State the ideological offspring of Saudi Arabia and the strict form of Islam which originates in the Kingdom?
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Saudi riyal in danger as oil war escalates
“If anything happens to the riyal exchange peg, the consequences will be dramatic," warns the country's exchange rate guru. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
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Higher Gas Prices, Long Lines: What Cheap Oil Means For Saudi Arabia
A new era in Saudi Arabia was demonstrated at gas stations across the country on Monday night: Long lines of cars stretched from the pumps as drivers filled up to beat price hikes announced by the government earlier in the day.
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Saudi Arabia Breaks off Ties with Iran after Al-Nimr Execution
Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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Kuwait Recalls Ambassador from Tehran
Kuwait says it is recalling its ambassador to Iran as a regional row over the execution of a Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia deepens.
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U.S. in a Bind as Saudi Actions Test a Durable Alliance
The Obama administration on Monday confronted the fundamental contradiction in its increasingly tense relationship with Saudi Arabia. It could not bring itself, at least in public, to condemn the execution of a dissident cleric who challenged the royal family, for fear of undermining the fragile Saudi leadership that it desperately needs in fighting the Islamic State and ending the conflict in Syria. The United States has usually looked the other way or issued...
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Ottawa going ahead with Saudi arms deal despite condemning executions
The Canadian government is proceeding with a controversial $15-billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia even as it publicly condemns Riyadh for a mass execution of 47 people, including a dissident Shia Muslim cleric. Foreign Affairs Minster Stéphane Dion released a statement this week decrying the capital punishment meted out Jan. 2 and calling on the Saudis to respect peaceful dissent and respect human rights. Sheik Nimr al-Nimr, the Shia cleric, was executed...
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Saudi Arabia exports intolerant ideology, Iran exports its cinema
Saudi Arabia has exported around the world an intolerant and violent ideology that inspires Islamic State and all similar groups. By contrast, the cultural export for which Iran is most well-known in the west is its thriving and poetic cinema. Iran has a long way to go at home and abroad, but let’s keep things in perspective. Saudi Arabia is an ally of the west and the west keeps closing its eyes and ears, selling it lethal arms and denying the central role this country plays in jihadi violence
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Why Saudi leaders keep making bad decisions: they're scared
Since the new year, the country has executed 47 people, including the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr; ended the ceasefire in Yemen; and broken diplomatic ties with Iran. These moves might seem bizarre, contradictory, or even self-defeating. But although the regime's reasons for making each of these moves are complex, they all fundamentally spring from the same place: the Saudi regime's profound sense of insecurity.
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Saudi Arabia is buying up farmland in US Southwest
Saudi Arabia grows alfalfa hay in both states for shipment back to its domestic dairy herds. In another real-life example of the world's interconnected economy, the Saudis increasingly look to produce animal feed overseas in order to save water in their own territory, most of which is desert. Privately held Fondomonte California on Sunday announced that it bought 1,790 acres of farmland in Blythe, California — an agricultural town along the...
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Saudi to give citizens rewards if they foil attacks
The Saudi interior ministry on Sunday announced that will give citizens seven million Riyals ($1.8 million) as a reward if they help in foiling terrorist attacks in the kingdom, Al Arabiya News Channel reported. 2One million riyals will also be given to those who can contribute with information on the whereabouts of a terrorist.
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Saudi Arabia ready to take part in any US-led ground operations in Syria – military spokesman
Saudi Arabia expressed its readiness to send ground troops to Syria if the US-led coalition decided that such operation is necessary, an adviser to the Saudi defense minister said. "The kingdom is ready to participate in any ground operations that the coalition [against Islamic State] may agree to carry out in Syria," Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, who is also the spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen, told al-Arabiya.
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Start Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom
Saudi Arabia is no state at all. It's an unstable business so corrupt to resemble a criminal organization and the U.S. should get ready for the day after. By Sarah Chayes and Alex De Waal.
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Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom
For half a century, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been the linchpin of U.S. Mideast policy. A guaranteed supply of oil has bought a guaranteed supply of security. Ignoring autocratic practices and the export of Wahhabi extremism, Washington stubbornly dubs its ally “moderate.” So tight is the trust that U.S. special operators dip into Saudi petrodollars as a counterterrorism slush fund without a second thought.
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