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‘A doll mascot has been arrested by Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice for not wearing Islamic dress and disobeying Sharia Law. The female doll figure, dressed in a floor length blue and white costume and a hair band, was promoting the opening of a sweet shop in […]

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‘Responding to inquiries by members of parliament, the Foreign Office neither confirmed nor denied whether British weapons had been used in the mass execution of protesters in Saudi Arabia last month. The Gulf Kingdom executed 47 people, including Shiite cleric Nimr-al-Nimr and dozens of anti-government protesters, in early January. After hundreds of Shiites took to […]

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‘Popular rebellions reflect the urges of a people, but they are themselves not always capable of victory. If the structure of a social order in a particular formation is weakened by war or by economic turmoil, then the popular rebellions might be able to move history forward. Even here, the record shows that unless there […]

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‘Danger exists that Saudi Arabia and Turkey will provide support to armed groupings fighting against the government troops of Syrian President Bashar Assad if these two countries launch a ground operation against the Islamic State terrorist organization on the territory of Syria, experts polled by TASS said on Friday. On Thursday, a day after the […]

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‘Informed sources revealed that Riyadh is holding training courses for 150,000 Saudi, Sudanese, Egyptian and Jordanian forces to prepare them for war in Syria. The Saudi sources told the CNN channel that the 150,000-strong army is now stationed in Saudi Arabia and will soon be dispatched to Syria. They also said that Morocco, Turkey, Bahrain, […]

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‘A Saudi court ruled this week that instead of beheading Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, he will now face flogging and eight years in prison as punishment for what state religious authorities consider to be crimes against Islam. According to The Guardian, the change in sentencing came after an appeal filed by Fayadh’s lawyer. The appeal […]

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‘Women in Riyadh have been banned from local Starbucks after a barrier designed to keep the genders apart collapsed. The company suggested female customers send their drivers to pick up drinks. The coffee shop now has a sign in Arabic and English: “Please no entry for ladies only. Send your driver to order. Thank you.” […]

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‘An all-party group of MPs has called for an immediate suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia and an international independent inquiry into the kingdom’s military campaign in Yemen. The call from the international development select committee follows evidence from aid agencies to MPs warning that Saudi [Arabia was] involved in indiscriminate bombing of […]

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‘The International Monetary Fund has predicted years of higher taxes and low fuel subsidies for oil-rich Saudi Arabia. As crude prices have fallen more than 70 percent in 18 months, weaker players could soon start to default on debts. Saudi Arabia will need to stop relying so heavily on oil revenues, which make up more […]

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‘Saudi Arabia is funding some 24,000 madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan through an unleashed “tsunami of money” in order to “export intolerance”, a top American senator says. “In 1956, there were 244 madrassas in Pakistan. Today, there are 24,000. These schools are multiplying all over the globe. These schools, by and large, don’t teach violence. […]

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‘Britain is at war in Yemen and is arming and facilitating a brutal Saudi dictatorship that is bombing innocent civilians, a growing chorus of critics has warned. The allegation that Britain is engaged in covert warfare in Yemen was first made by Scottish National Party (SNP) Westminster leader Angus Robertson during a heated discussion in […]

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‘British Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed Wednesday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal to launch an inquiry into the delivery of UK-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia. According to Corbyn, such a probe justified in light of the violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Saudi-led coalition when striking civilian targets in Yemen, as depicted in […]

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‘Despite its threat earlier this month to restrict arms exports to Saudi Arabia, the German government has nevertheless given permission for the construction of boats for the Saudi navy, Der Spiegel reported. Despite threats from the German government to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia, including the delivery of defensive armaments, Germany’s Minister for Economic […]

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‘Britain has approved the sale of invasive surveillance equipment to Saudi Arabia, amid an outcry over the Al Saud’s human rights violations, a new report says. The Wednesday report by The Independent mentioned Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates as some of the licensed importers of such equipment. The report said the items […]

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