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UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security

(Sept. 3) -- When it comes to data security issues, there is a blurry line between private sectors and government -- particularly if the BlackBerry is involved. The secretary-general of the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, is attempting to define that gray area in favor of his...

Emirates to Suspend BlackBerry Services

CAIRO, Egypt (Aug. 2) -- The United Arab Emirates, one of the Middle East's most significant business centers, has announced it will suspend the use of BlackBerrys due to concerns that security authorities can't adequately monitor their data flows. Media reports say unnamed officials in Saudi Arabia announced that the...

12-Year-Old Saudi Girl Wins Divorce From Husband, 80

(April 22) -- In a case that could spur the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to set minimum age limits for marriage, a girl who was wed at age 11 to an 80-year-old man has been granted a divorce. In exchange for a dowry of about $22,000, the girl, now 12, was forced to marry her father's cousin last year. After the girl protested...

US Puts Squeeze on Iran Amid Calls for UN Sanctions

(March 10) -- The United States is intensifying pressure on Iran commercially and diplomatically amid the push for new international sanctions targeting Tehran's nuclear program. President Barack Obama late Wednesday signed executive orders renewing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "to deal with the unusual...

Saudi Arabia Shifts Course on Child Marriage

(Feb. 9) – For the first time, the Saudi Arabian state has intervened in the marriage of a preteen girl to an older man, leading some campaigners to speculate that the kingdom could be about to ban the cruel and archaic practice of child marriage. The government-run Human Rights Commission (HRC) has hired a lawyer...

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Saudi Arabia To 'Immidiatly' Go Nuclear Should Iran Develop Bomb

Saudi Arabia would immediately push to acquire nuclear weapons should Iran carry out a successfully nuclear test, according to a report in The Times.

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Haggai Carmon: It's Saudi Arabia, Stupid!

With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

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Syria Violence: Gulf States, France and Italy Withdraw Ambassadors As Violence Worsens

Gulf Arab states and the governments of France and Italy have withdrawn their ambassadors from Syria as violence against civilians continues to intensify.

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Saudi Arabia Takes Risks In Its First Public Contemporary Art Exhibit

By Asma Alsharif - Standing on a large floor map in a Jeddah art gallery, Hamza Serafi places a yellow sign inscribed "Caution: revolution (take 2)" over Egypt and then turns to Saudi Arabia.

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Meet the Princess Shaking Up Saudi Arabia

In the wake of the Arab Spring, Saudi women have taken the wheel.

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02/10/12 Saudi Arabia To 'Immidiatly' Go Nuclear Should Iran... Source: The Huffington Post Saudi Arabia would immediately push to acquire nuclear weapons should Iran carry out a successfully nuclear test, according to a report in The Times.
02/10/12 S. Korea Signs 20-Year Oil Deal With Saudi Arabia Source: Seoul News 2/10/2012 1:04 AM ET (RTTNews) - South Korea in search of alternative source for Iranian oil following the U.S.-European Union-backed sanctions on Tehran's oil sector has clinched a deal with Saudi Arabia to buy Saudi crude in the next 20 years.Described as unprecedented in the oil industry, the long-term contract was signed by South Korea's third ... ...
02/10/12 9/11 REVISITED : Was Saudi Arabia involved? Source: Asia Times At 9:37 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing all 59 passengers and 125 others in the building.
02/09/12 Afghanistan says children killed in NATO airstrike Source: MSNBC karzai will hold talks with the taliban . they hope to start a peace process more than a decade after the war began. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: well, hello, thomas. what we can say is it seems the u.s., afghanistan, and taliban are inching closer and closer to negotiation table. the afghan government was sidelined, they feel the u.s. was trying to keep them out of the loop. they would have preferred that the taliban open offices in a more mutual country like saudi arabia or turkey, friendlier to the afghan government . they accepted the qatar offices but they continue negotiations in saudi arabia . the taliban , spoke to the spokesperson, he says any discussion of negotiations is premature. they sent a list of demands to the afghan government they want to be met before they come to the negotiation table as a confidence building measure. demands that include releasing senior taliban leaders being held at places like guantanamo bay or other u.s. prisons throughout the world. >> atia, leon panetta raised some eyebrows with comments on "60 minutes" that somewhere somebody knew osama bin laden was hiding in abbottabad. what is the fallout from that? >> reporter: what's interesting, you talk to u.s. officials, whether here in afghanistan and pakistan or even in washington, d.c., they say the same things that leon panetta actually said, but they don't say it on the record, they're afraid to voice those opinions. so what secretary panetta said is basically what every other american official, military official has been saying for some time now. that being said, the reason these officials haven't said it in the past is they don't want to continue to fan the flames that is already burning between the u.s. and pakistan , so obviously some very strong words coming from secretary panetta, words that will obviously upset pakistan even more.
02/09/12 Saudi Tweeter Is Detained in Malaysia Source: The Wall Street Journal RIYADH, Saudi ArabiaâMalaysian police detained a Saudi columnist who fled Saudi Arabia after his tweets about the Prophet Muhammad touched off public calls for his execution, Malaysia's state news agency reported on Thursday.

Background on SaudiArabia

Saudi Arabia ( ' or incorrectly ', officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( ' ), commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia ( or in American English as ) 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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