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Are US, Other Allies Ignoring Saudi Arabia's Political Prisoners?

The U.S. and European Union are ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 160 political dissidents in just two months, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report today. More than 160 "peaceful" dissidents have been arrested in the oil-rich kingdom since February, as the so-called "Arab Spring" of revolt...

Saudi Arabia Plans to Build the World's Tallest Building [VIDEO]

Iranian Students Hurl Firebombs at Saudi Embassy

TEHRAN, Iran -- Scores of Iranian students have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy with firebombs to protest the Gulf country's role in cracking down on anti-government protesters in Bahrain. The official IRNA news agency says protesters tried to attach a flag of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to the embassy's gate Monday,...

Imprisoned Father of Autistic Boy Called 'the Bravest Man in Saudi Arabia'

Khaled al-Johani, who teaches religion to elementary school students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is neither a revolutionary nor an activist, according to his brother. But even though no one in the country knew it at the time, the 40-year-old father of a 5-year-old autistic boy was imprisoned and cut off from his family after...

Rising Oil Prices Beginning to Hurt US Economy

WASHINGTON - Just when companies have finally stepped up hiring, rising oil prices are threatening to halt the U.S. economy's gains. Some economists are scaling back their estimates for growth this year, in part because flat wages have left households struggling to pay higher gasoline prices. Oil has topped $108 a...

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Saudi Arabia Looks To The Sun

Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, may finally be getting serious about overcoming the technical and financial hurdles for tapping its other main resource: sunshine.

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Saudi Arabia Eyes Solar Power For Future

Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, may finally be getting serious about overcoming the technical and financial hurdles for tapping its other main resource: sunshine.

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BAE Systems Wins Â£1.9bn Contract To Supply Saudi Training Jets

Defence company BAE Systems has signed a Â£1.9bn contract to supply training jets to Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Arabia on the Hudson? Why Water Speculators Want Desalination in the Moist Northeast

Here's a cautionary tale about husbanding water resources in the 21st century.

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Bin Laden Wives Not Tied To Terror, Says Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has no evidence that Osama bin Laden's wives and family members deported from Pakistan have been involved in terrorism, an official Saudi statement said Sunday in an indication that authorities will allow the group to remain in the kingdom.

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05/31/12 The case for sukuk remains compelling Source: Zawya.com After a long period of relatively minimal bond market activity, the period of the global economic crisis has seen bonds and sukuk increasingly claim their place as the third pillar of the traditionally heavily bank-dominated GCC financial markets.
05/31/12 Outotec awarded Cristal Global's mega size ilmenite... Source: Reuters Outotec has agreed with Cristal Global, the second largest titanium dioxide pigment producer in the world, on the design and delivery of technology and services for new ilmenite smelting facilities to be located in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia, as well as installation and construction of the plant on a pure turnkey basis.
05/30/12 SC seeks Centre's response on Indian's arrest in Saudi... Source: Deccan Herald - India The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond to a woman's allegations that her husband had been picked up by the officials of intelligence agencies from their home in Saudi Arabia where he was working as an engineer for the last five years.
05/30/12 Barton Biggs Spoke With A Well-Connected Businessman... Source: The Business Insider Barton Biggs, the storied hedge fund manager who runs Traxis Partners, recently had an interesting encounter recently over lunch with a Saudi businessman who explained to him the real motivations behind Saudi Arabia's ramp up in oil production and why oil prices will likely continue to fall as a result for an extended period of time.
05/30/12 FED collection on intl air travelling to be amended... Source: Daily Times - Pakistan The federal budget for fiscal 2012-13 would announce amendment in the procedure for collection of federal excise duty (FED) on international air travelling.

Background on Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia ( or ; ' or incorrectly ', officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( ' ), is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab world, after Algeria.

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