RIYADH, Paul Handley- The fate of a senior member of Saudi Arabia's religious police who outraged hardliners by backing gender mixing and private prayers was unclear Sunday after an order sacking him...
ABU DHABI, W.G. Dunlop- UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Saturday criticised restrictions on women's employment in some Gulf countries and called for those barriers to be lifted.
"Women now...
MOSCOW, Marina Lapenkova - Russian Communists celebrated Lenin's 140th birthday on Thursday but the first Bolshevik leader is increasingly viewed as a dusty history-book figure while his successor...
RIYADH- A senior member of the Saudi religious police repeated on Wednesday his support for Muslim men and women mixing, and denied that his stance against strict separation rules had got him fired....
AMMAN- Jordan's Queen Rania on Sunday launched an initiative to repair and develop Palestinian schools in Israeli-occupied Arab east Jerusalem.
"We launch Madrasati (my school) Palestine from...
LOS ANGELES- About 100 members of a self-described neo-Nazi group protested against immigrants to the United States on Saturday, sparking a counter-rally that drew about 500 people.
The black-clad...
ABU DHABI- An Abu Dhabi court has sentenced a woman to life in prison for smuggling a large amount of the sedative valium, in the first such ruling against a woman in the emirate, the local press...
SANAA- University of Sanaa professors said on Sunday they have gone on strike to press the Yemeni government into bringing educational reforms and increasing their wages.
"The strikers will...
TAISHAN, Amber Wang - More than two decades since the last Barbie rolled off the assembly line in Taiwan, nostalgic former factory workers are preserving her memory by tailoring exquisite dresses for...
SANAA- A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who had been forced into marriage died five days after her wedding when she suffered a rupture in her sex organs and haemorrhaging, a local right's organisation said...
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