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Could Saudi Arabia Be Next?

With a wave of pro-democracy fervor sweeping the Middle East, could the region's richest powerhouse, Saudi Arabia, be next to fall? Or perhaps the question should be: Can oil money buy stability? Weeks ago, the answer seemed to be "yes." While revolutions took hold in Tunisia and Egypt, the Persian Gulf's richest and...

Saudi Arabia Giving Citizens a 15 Percent Raise to Avoid Becoming the Next Libya

Call it the Oprah theory of governance: Everyone gets a prize and everyone stays happy. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has returned to Riyadh after receiving spinal surgery in New York and recovering in Morocco. All told, the 86-year-old monarch has been away from home for three months. Now, Abdullah is offering financial...

Saudi King Announces Wage Hikes, Holds Fast Against Political Reform

MANAMA, Bahrain -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah announced today a $10.7 billion package of benefits for citizens after returning to the country from a three-month absence for medical treatment. But there was no mention of political reforms despite popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world. The economic incentives...

Opinion: Can Democracy Take Root in Egypt?

With the decision by Hosni Mubarak to step down, nothing will ever be the same again in Egypt, nor perhaps in the Arab world. So the real question now is, what comes next? Will Egypt turn to some form of representative government? Perhaps, but it's pure fantasy to believe that this will be anything like Eastern Europe in...

Who's Next? A Tour of Potential Dominoes in Arab World

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is on his way out, a victim of the same popular street movements that forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunisia. And one of the biggest questions in the Middle East now is whether other long-entrenched and repressive regimes could be next. Every unelected president, king and emir in the...

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Saudi Women Test Reins Under an Aged, Liberal King

Saudi women have whiffed new freedoms in recent years.

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Sheik Abdul Mohsen Al Obeikan, Saudi King's Ultraconservative Adviser, Dismissed Over Women Rights Issue

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has dismissed a controversial ultraconservative adviser after he publicly criticized reforms aimed at easing restrictions on women, the kingdom's state media reports.

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06/03/12 King urges governors to play developmental role Source: Jordan Times His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday urged governors to maintain constant contact with citizens, heed their pleas and meet their demands, in cooperation with concerned authorities.
06/03/12 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Lauds Positive... Source: Saudi Press Agency The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has lauded the positive promising outcomes achieved by Nitaqat Program, a project enforced by the Ministry of Labor to employ as many Saudi female and male job-seekers in the private sector as possible.
06/03/12 Hunt on to track down Khalafï¿½s killers, PM tells... Source: The Independent of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government is sincerely working to track down the killers of the Saudi Embassy official Khalaf Al Ali. The Prime Minister said this when Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr. Abdullah N A Al Busairi met her at her office.
06/03/12 Saudi crown prince in 'good health': media Source: Asia One Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who has been undergoing medical tests abroad, is in "good health" and will "soon" return to the kingdom, local media reported on Sunday.
06/03/12 5 ex-Blackwater execs cite CIA in Jordan gun gifts Source: The Daily News - Jacksonville NC Federal prosecutors in 2010 accused former Blackwater Worldwide president Gary Jackson and four past colleagues of various federal firearms violations.