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Asia news: Saudi blogger’s wife says inhumane sentence proves Kingdom’s brutality

YoopyaMay 9, 2014September 26, 20230

The sentencing of a prominent Saudi blogger to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam shows the Kingdom is run by radical

Female death on campus spurs Saudi debate

YoopyaFeb 7, 2014April 9, 20230

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Thousands of Saudis vented their anger online over a report Thursday that staff at a Riyadh university had barred male

Obama phones Saudi King Abdullah about Iran nuclear deal: White House

YoopyaNov 29, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama phoned Saudi King Abdullah on Wednesday to discuss the interim deal between Iran and six world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program, and emphasized

Saudi government warns women over driving protest

YoopyaOct 26, 2013February 14, 20240

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have stepped up warnings to women not to defy a ban on female drivers by taking part in a mass

Saudi Arabia under fire at U.N. over women’s, migrant worker rights

YoopyaOct 21, 2013February 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s human rights record came under fire at the United Nations on Monday with critics accusing the kingdom of jailing activists without due process

Saudis reject Security Council seat, angry over Mideast inaction

YoopyaOct 19, 2013March 10, 20240

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia turned down a coveted seat on the United Nations Security Council on Friday in a rare display of anger at the failure of the international

Muslim hajj crowds thinned by virus concerns

YoopyaOct 14, 2013March 10, 20240

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslims from across the world poured Sunday into a sprawling tent city in the Saudi desert before the start of

Analysis: U.N. confronts failure of diplomacy in Syria

YoopyaDec 29, 20120

(Reuters) – Attempts by the United Nations to end the bloody 21-month-old Syrian conflict through diplomacy have been a resounding failure and there is little

Saudi women must uncover faces for security checks, council says

YoopyaNov 6, 20120

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabian authorities have rejected a conservative proposal to allow women to keep their faces covered during security checks, local media reported on

Egyptians in hajj divided over Islam in politics

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Now that she has finished the hajj and is returning home to Egypt, Magda Bagnied says