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(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...

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Saudi government warns women over driving protest

YoopyaOctober 26, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 26, 2013February 14, 202403

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...

Asia News World

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

YoopyaOctober 21, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 21, 2013February 14, 202401

(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...

Asia News World

Saudis reject Security Council seat, angry over Mideast inaction

YoopyaOctober 19, 2013March 10, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 19, 2013March 10, 202401

(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...

Asia News World

Muslim hajj crowds thinned by virus concerns

YoopyaOctober 14, 2013March 10, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 14, 2013March 10, 202403

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

Asia News World

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

YoopyaDecember 29, 2012

by YoopyaDecember 29, 201201

(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...

Asia News World

Saudi women must uncover faces for security checks, council says

YoopyaNovember 6, 2012

by YoopyaNovember 6, 201204

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

Asia News World

Egyptians in hajj divided over Islam in politics

YoopyaOctober 30, 2012

by YoopyaOctober 30, 201203

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...