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MSNBC
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President Bush put the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land Friday with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home.
"What's on..
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BBC News
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is at the Vatican for what will be the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.
The two sides have no diplomatic ties, though Abdullah met the late Pope John Paul II when he was crown p..
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BBC News
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Members of the feared religious police in Saudi Arabia are for the first time due to stand trial over the deaths in their custody of two men.
The deaths, which occurred a few weeks ago, sparked a media uproar, leading to calls for a re-evaluation of th..
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Washington Post
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Manal Fageeh never liked the abaya, the long black cloak she was forced to begin wearing at 13. She resented the fact that it was obligatory for women in Saudi Arabia, and the black absorbed heat in the often-scorching climate.
When Fageeh, a health in..
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News.com.au
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Saudi Arabia has decided to write off 80 per cent of the more than $US15 billion ($18 billion) it is owed by Iraq, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said.
As part of its efforts to help Iraq rebuild, the Bush administration has been pressing Iraq'..
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Jerusalem Post
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A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married...
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BBC News
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The High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a �43bn Saudi arms deal.
Defence firm BAE was accused of making illegal payments to Saudi officials to secure contracts, but the firm..
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BBC News
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The Saudi king has pardoned a female rape victim sentenced to jail and 200 lashes for being alone with a man raped in the same attack, reports say.
The "Qatif girl" case caused an international outcry with widespread criticism of the Saudi justice syst..
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MSNBC
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes for being alone with a man who was not related to her, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
Saudi Justice Minister Abdullah bin M..
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CNN
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pulled out of a meeting with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in London Monday, but the Foreign Office insisted it was for personal reasons and not a snub.
Miliband has just adopted a baby son and is taking time of..
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BBC News
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Saudi Arabia has announced an overhaul of its judicial system, including the allocation of $2bn for training judges and building new courts.
The reforms, by royal decree, will lead to the creation of a supreme court, an appeals court and new general co..
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USA Today
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will begin laying the ground for a Mideast peace conference in a visit to Israel on Wednesday, hoping to push Israelis and Palestinians closer to renewing talks.
Building on warming ties between Israel and moderate A..
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FOX News
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Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year old housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded.
The Sri Lankan governmen..
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Al Jazeera
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British media reports have accused BAE of paying $1.99bn over a decade to Bandar bin Sultan, a Saudi prince, in connection with al-Yamamah.
Al-Yamamah dates back to the 1980s and was worth an estimated $86bn.
A BAE company statement said on Tuesda..
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BBC News
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A Saudi prince who negotiated a £40bn arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia received secret payments for over a decade, a BBC probe has found.
The UK's biggest arms dealer, BAE Systems, paid hundreds of millions of pounds to the ex-Saudi ambassad..
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FOX News
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Religious police shut a Canadian Embassy booth and another for a Montreal private college at a Saudi Arabia fair last week allegedly because they were being run by women, the globeandmail.com reports.
"From what I hear ... the religious police were ver..
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SF Gate
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, warming to a Saudi peace initiative, issued a surprise invitation Sunday to Arab leaders to meet with him in Jerusalem and exchange ideas for settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He also said he would be willin..
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ABC News
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The Saudi king chastised Arab leaders for infighting and said their divisions have fueled turmoil around the Mideast, prodding them to take united action at a summit Wednesday aimed at reviving a peace offer to Israel.
The gathering is to revive a 2002..
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News.com.au
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A SAUDI woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes - for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported.
In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said sh..
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BBC News
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Saudi Arabia has warned that it will sue global tobacco firms unless they pay the full cost of treating patients suffering from smoking-related illness...
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