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  • President Trump’s Sojourn Across Middle East Offers Little Concrete Politics

    ISRAEL, 2017/05/29 President Donald Trump this completed week initiated his debut foreign trip as the majority powerful man in the world, making Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine the initial stops of his travels, before continuing to Brussels for a NATO summit, Sicily, Italy for the G7 conclave and a stopover in The Vatican for an audience with the pope. Despite Washington DC and the Trump government engulfed in a lot of political fires, the presidential visit to the Middle East displayed the continuing criticality of the region in American foreign policy. With Russia presently playing a much heavier hand in the region, the US under Trump continues approaching off as aloof as far as long-term policy thinking is concerned.
  • Thousands of Saudis sign petition to end male guardianship of women

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2016/09/29   Thousands of Saudis have signed an online petition calling for the government to abolish the country’s guardianship system, which prevents women from engaging in fundamental tasks without the permission of a male relative. “Women should be treated as a full citizen,” said activist Aziza Al-Yousef who, along with other activists, has been fighting against the guardianship system for a decade. “This is not only a women’s issue, this is as well putting pressure on normal men ... this is not an issue for women only,” she told the Guardian. Saudi Arabian divorced women and widows to get better legal powers
  • Riyadh promises 'urgent' action for stranded Indian workers

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2016/08/30 Saudi Arabia has promised "urgent" action to resolve the plight of some 2,500 Indian workers stranded without money in the kingdom next a plunge in oil prices sparked construction layoffs. Labour Minister Mufarrej al-Haqbani issued orders to allow the Indian workers "to instantly transfer their kafala (sponsorship) and renew their residencies," the Okaz daily reported on Wednesday. Haqbani's orders as well relieve restrictions on workers leaving the kingdom, Okaz quoted ministry official Abdullah al-Alyan as saying.
  • Turkey should mediate between Iran, Saudi Arabia

    IRAN, 2016/01/11 Turkey should mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, said the former chief of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, currently MP from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish Turkyurduhaber online newspaper reported. Ihsanoglu went on to add that the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran may lead to bloody consequences, and Turkey can greatly suffer from them as well. Ihsanoglu said that the Turkish parliament should instantly establish a appropriate commission to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran soured next execution of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric, by the Kingdom along with other 46 people, which was followed by a strong turmoil from Iran.
  • Voters in Saudi Arabia elect 20 women for local government seats in landmark election

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2015/12/16 Saudi voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, according to early results, a day next women voted and ran in elections for the initial time in the country's history. The women who won hail from vastly different parts of the country, ranging from Saudi Arabia's major city to a small village near Islam's holiest site. The 20 female candidates represent just 1% of the roughly 2,100 municipal council seats up for grabs, but even limited gains are seen as a step forward for women who had before been completely shut out of elections. Women are still not allowed to drive and are governed by guardianship laws that give men final say over aspects of their lives like marriage, travel and higher education.
  • Saudi Arabia unveils details about fast-track visas

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2015/09/20 The Ministry of Labor unveiled details of the recently introduced fast-track online visa system for those private firms that have won government project contracts. Abdullah Al-Olyan, director general of the ministry’s branch in Makkah, said that those firms, which have fulfilled the ministry’s Saudization regulations, can take chance of the new system. According to the system, the private firms can complete instantly all process of visa issuance and hiring of workers online. This system as well allows government agencies to see their arrangement data with the private sector, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
  • Saudi beheads 80th person this year

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2015/05/14 Saudi Arabia on Tuesday carried out its 80th beheading of the year, edging closer to the 87 executions it carried out during all of 2014, according to AFP tallies. The interior ministry said a Saudi citizen, Rabie al-Sai'ari, had been convicted of trying to smuggle hashish into the kingdom. He was executed in Najran, a district on the border with Yemen, a ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said.
  • A new era, a new Saudi Arabia

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2015/04/25 Saudi Arabia – the lands where Islam was revealed, the great national of the Arabian peninsula, the heart of the Middle East. In addition to uniting tribes with profound differences and building a country on the Arabian Peninsula, Ibn Saud is one of the great guardians of the Middle East with its a lot of ups and downs. Following the death last week at the age of 91 of the Saudi king, the new era in Saudi Arabia has been discussed, and there has been much talk of human rights and reforms. King Abdullah’s successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz, is a strong and well-known figure who served as governor for 48 years and from time to time deputized for the king. Throughout his time as governor the new king, who is known for his relationship with charitable associations, was much admired as making no concessions to corruption and exhibiting a good management style.
  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.