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Saudi Arabia Expands Ban on Umrah Pilgrimage over Coronavirus Fears

Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens and other residents of the kingdom from performing Umrah pilgrimage in Mecca or visiting the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina amid the rapid spread of a coronavirus worldwide, expanding an earlier such ban on foreigners. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by ...

March 5, 2020

Middle East

Latest on Saudi Normalization Attempts with Zionist Entity: King Receives Israeli Rabbi

The king of Saudi Arabia received an Israeli rabbi in Riyadh Last week, Israeli media reported. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman received a delegation last Thursday (February 20) from the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID Dialogue Centre) that included Israeli Rabbi David Rosen. The ...

February 25, 2020

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IMF Warns: Gulf States Face Risk of Losing Oil Wealth by 2034

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Gulf states will be at risk of their oil wealth vanishing in the next fourteen years if they fail to undertake further economic reforms. In a study released earlier this week, the IMF claimed that “at the current fiscal stance, the region’s ...

February 8, 2020

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NGOs Boycott Pre-G20 Meetings in Saudi Arabia over Rights Violations

Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events. In a joint statement issued on Monday, human ...

January 14, 2020

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“Saudi Judicial System Corrupt, Bin Salman Chief Culprit behind Khashoggi’s Killing”

A group of Saudi rights activists, researchers and journalists have severely censured the ultra-conservative kingdom’s “corrupt” judicial system over shielding the masterminds of the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October last year, describing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the primary culprit in the case. The ...

December 28, 2019

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UN Rapporteur Urges Probe in Saudi Chain of Command to Find Khashoggi Murder Masterminds

The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, has called on a probe into Saudi Arabia’s chain of command in order to find organisers of the murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Under international human rights law, the killing of Mr. Khashoggi was an extrajudicial execution for ...

December 26, 2019

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Two Saudi Dissidents Killed as Regime Forces Storm Dammam

At least two political dissidents have been killed in Saudi Arabia when regime forces raided a village in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the country. Local sources, requesting ...

December 25, 2019

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Saudi Says 3 Soldiers Killed along border with Yemen

Saudi Arabia said Saturday three soldiers were killed along its border with Yemen. The Saudi SPA news agency said one officer and two soldiers were killed in the southern Jazan region. Authorities, however, did not provide details about the circumstances of the soldiers’ deaths. Yemen has been since March 2015 ...

December 14, 2019

Middle East

Saudis Distance Themselves from US Naval Base Shooter

Saudi Arabia sought to distance itself Saturday from a student who carried out a fatal shooting at an American naval base, as it seeks to repair its image of being an exporter of extremism. The Saudi military student reportedly condemned the US as a “nation of evil” before going on ...

December 7, 2019

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Saudi Welcomes Israeli Activists on Way of Intensifying Ties Normalization

Tel Aviv and Riyadh have started reflecting the official decision to normalize mutual ties on the public level on the public, bridging gaps between the activists in both the kingdom and the occupation entity. One of the Israeli activists posted a video to show how ardently he was received by ...

December 6, 2019