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Saudi Arabia says five dead from new SARS-like virus

By   /  May 2, 2013  /  Health, News, World  /  No Comments

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Al Arabiya Saudi Arabia said five more people have died of a deadly new virus from the same family as SARS, and two other people were in intensive care. The seven cases were discovered in al-Ahsa governorate in the Eastern Province, the Saudi news agency SPA quoted the Saudi Health Ministry as saying in a [...]

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18 persons, including one Iranian, arrested for spying in Saudi Arabia

By   /  March 20, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI 18 persons, including an Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudi nationals, have been arrested by the Saudi Arabian authorities on the charges of spying, according to official sources. Interior ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said that the 18 suspects had been involved in spying for a state, although he did not name the country thought [...]

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By arming Saudi Arabia, Europe breaks its own law

By   /  March 3, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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By David Cronin | New Europe The most offensive thing I have read lately are the new “preliminary results” from the weapons company BAE Systems. On page four, the firm gloats at how it won orders worth 3.4 billion pounds (5 billion euros) under the Saudi-British Defence Cooperation Programme last year.  A separate contract worth 1.4 [...]

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Bahrain Terror Cell Linked To Iran, Iraq, Lebanon Busted, Says Saudi Arabia

By   /  February 18, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Arab News | Eurasia Review Bahrain has arrested eight nationals in a militant cell with links to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, the interior minister of the state said in remarks published yesterday. The official Bahrain News Agency reported the minister, Shaikh Rashed bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa, as saying the eight had received training in weapons and [...]

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US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pakistan

By   /  February 18, 2013  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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By  Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has killed over 80 people. According to reports, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the attack. Billed as a “Sunni extremist group,” it instead [...]

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Obama administration silent over CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia as pressure builds on Brennan

By   /  February 7, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI The pressure on President Barack Obama’s nominee for CIA director and the architect of the White House strategy on drones, John Brennan has intensified after revelations of a secret CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia. The Obama administration and Saudi Arabia were silent over reports on Wednesday that the CIA is secretly using an [...]

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Saudi cleric calls for babies to wear burkas

By   /  February 5, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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JN1 A cleric in Saudi Arabia has issued a religious edict stating that baby girls should be forced to wear burkas, a full body covering typically worn by adult women in the country, to protect them from sexual assault. The edict has sparked outcry on social media platform Twitter with some people calling the move [...]

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Saudi order shops employing men and women to build segregation walls to keep them apart

By   /  January 30, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  1 Comment

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ANI Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to construct walls to separate male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws. The wall needs to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex. According to the Daily Mail, the [...]

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Unprecedented Increase in US Visas to Saudis after Decade of Prohibition

By   /  January 7, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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Fars News The United States, a decade after Al Qaeda strikes in New York and Washington, has opened its doors to Saudi nationals, diplomatic sources said. Diplomats said the administration of President Barack Obama has removed most restrictions on the entry of Saudis to the United States. They said the percentage of visa approvals for [...]

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Saudi spy chief calls for al-Qaeda leadership of anti-Syria militants

By   /  January 6, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

Syrian Rebels Capture 256 Government Soldiers in Idlib

Islam Times The Saudi Arabian spy chief has ordered al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra Front, to take leadership of the foreign-backed militants in Syria through assassinating the members of the so-called Free Syrian Army. According to Syrian media, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has decided to bring the militants fighting the Syrian [...]

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Saudi warplanes attacked Yemen for US

By   /  January 4, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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PressTV A new report reveals that Saudi Arabia has used its fighter jets to carry out a number of attacks against Yemen on behalf of the United States. The report, published by The Times on Friday, cited a US intelligence source as saying that “some of the so-called drone missions are actually Saudi Air Force [...]

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S. Arabia Sending Death Convicts to Syria to Help Rebels

By   /  December 11, 2012  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Fars News Top secret documents leaked to the media disclosed on Sunday that Saudi Arabia has been dispatching death convicts to Syria to join the armed campaign against President Bashar a-Assad’s government. The documents include the orders which have been issued to grant amnesty to criminals from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Somalia, [...]

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