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European Parliament calls for Saudi arms embargo
The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia on Thursday, saying Britain, France and other EU governments should no longer sell weapons to a country accused of targeting civilians in Yemen.
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European Parliament calls for Saudi arms embargo
The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia on Thursday, saying Britain, France and other EU governments should no longer sell weapons to a country accused of targeting civilians in Yemen. EU lawmakers, who voted overwhelmingly in favor of an embargo, said Britain had licensed more than $3 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia since Saudi-led forces began military operations in Yemen in March last year.
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Saudis shocked by suicide bomber ‘prank’
Several YouTube stars have ramped up the shock value of their stunts to get clicks - but a video by a Saudi group faking an encounter with a suicide bomber has been blasted as one of the most outrageous and irresponsible "prank" videos yet. It starts with menace. A bearded taxi driver wearing traditional Saudi dress looks at the camera and says: "Now we're going to look for a victim." The video cuts to footage from a hidden camera of a...
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Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake explores how the realpolitik of the West has converged on a mirror image of itself throughout the Middle-East over the past decades, and how the story of this has become so obfuscating and simplified that we, the public, have been left in a bewildered and confused state. The narrative traverses the United States, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia—but the country at the centre of reflection is Afghanistan. By Adam Curtis. (2015)
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‘We are trapped in war’: one year on and still no end in sight for Yemen
Poverty is rife, thousands have died and children have joined the fighting – Yemen’s year of civil war has been a catastrophe. By Kareem Shaheen.
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McCain-Linked Nonprofit Received $1 Million From Saudi Arabia
A nonprofit with ties to Senator John McCain received a $1 million donation from the government of Saudi Arabia in 2014, according to documents filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. By Bill Allison.
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Even Saudi Arabia Is Preparing For The End Of Oil
The world’s dependence on oil is fading, and Saudi Arabia doesn’t want to get left behind. The kingdom will build a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund to slowly but unmistakably transform its economy for a post-oil world, Bloomberg reported Friday morning. The news was delivered by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a five-hour interview at his royal compound that stretched until 4 a.m. local time.
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Saudi Arabia passes Russia as world’s third biggest military spender
Global military spending reached almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time since 2011, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks arms expenditure around the world. The United States remained far and away the top spender, which despite a dip from 2014, accounted for more than a third of total global spending. It was followed by China and then, perhaps...
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Top secret "28 pages" may hold clues about Saudi support for 9/11 hijackers
Former Senator Bob Graham and others urge the Obama administration to declassify redacted pages of a report that holds 9/11 secrets
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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded freedom of speech prize
IPA Freedom to Publish committee chose writer due to his ‘disgraceful ongoing punishment and the extreme risk he ran to express his ideas’
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How Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen has made al Qaeda stronger and richer
One unintended consequence of the war in Yemen: Al Qaeda now runs its own mini-state, flush with funds from raiding the local central bank and levying taxes. By Yara Bayoumy, Noah Browning and Mohammed Ghobari. (Apr. 8)
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Saudi Arabia strips religious police of arresting power
New cabinet decision orders religious officers to report violators to police or drug squad unit.
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Saudi Arabia strips religious police of arresting power
Saudi Arabia has stripped its religious forces of their powers to arrest, urging them to act "kindly and gently" in enforcing Islamic rules. Under changes approved by the Saudi cabinet on Wednesday, religious officers will no longer be allowed to detain people and instead must report violators to police or drug squad officers, the official Saudi Press Agency said. Officers of the Haia force, also known as the Mutawaa, must "carry out the duties of encouraging virtue and forbidding...
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Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials...
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Saudi Arabia's religious police ordered to be 'gentle'
The Saudi authorities have moved to curb the powers of the notorious religious police, or "mutawa". Members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice will no longer be permitted to chase suspects or arrest them. They must instead report observations to security forces personnel. Religious police officers, who roam the streets enforcing strict standards of social behaviour, are frequently accused...
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Obama meets Saudi king as U.S. Iran policy strains alliance
U.S. President Barack Obama met Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday to seek joint action on security threats including Iran and Islamic State, but his visit is overshadowed by Gulf Arab exasperation with his approach to the region.
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Saudi Human Rights Activist Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
Rights group Amnesty International says a court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a peaceful dissident to nine years in prison and banned him from travel abroad for another nine years on charges related to his civil rights work. Issa al-Hamid is a founding member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights, known by its Arabic acronym HASEM. Several HASEM members are serving similarly lengthy jail sentences.
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Prince Says Saudi Arabia Not Yet Ready to Allow Women to Drive
Saudi Arabia isn’t ready to end the world’s only ban on women driving, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said, arguing it’s not just a matter of ending strictures imposed by the kingdom’s austere form of Islam. Allowing women to drive is “not a religious issue as much as it is an issue that relates to the community itself that either accepts it or refuses it,” said the 30-year-old prince, who has amassed unprecedented powers...
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There will be pandemonium: The end of the old oil order has already begun
Sunday, April 17th was the designated moment. The world’s leading oil producers were expected to bring fresh discipline to the chaotic petroleum market and spark a return to high prices. Meeting in Doha, the glittering capital of petroleum-rich Qatar, the oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with such key non-OPEC producers as Russia and Mexico, were scheduled to ratify a draft agreement obliging them to freeze their oil...
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Why Saudi Arabia Is Suddenly in Serious Trouble
Saudi Arabia is in serious trouble. The Binladin Group, the kingdom’s largest construction company, has terminated the employment of fifty thousand foreign workers. They have been issued exit visas, which they have refused to honor. These workers will not leave without being paid back wages. Angry with their employer, some of the workers set fire to seven of the company’s buses.
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