Thursday, March 28, 2024

Saudi Arabia lists 4 firms, 3 Lebanese men with links to Hezbollah

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had blacklisted four companies and three Lebanese men for having links to Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah,...

Saudi Arabia urges nationals to leave Lebanon

Saudi Arabia has issued a warning against its citizens from travelling to Lebanon and advises Saudi nationals currently in Lebanon to leave, said state-owned media...

Saudi religious police arrested after online furore

Members of Saudi Arabia's religious police have been arrested for allegedly brutalising a young woman outside a Riyadh shopping mall, local media reported on...

Saudi film "Barakah yoqabil Barakah" shown at Berlin festival

It's rare that a Saudi Arabian film is shown at a major film festival, but Mahmoud Sabbagh's "Barakah yoqabil Barakah" (Barakah Meets Barakah) has...

Jihadi brides are suckers for bad boys, says Muslim comedian

Shazia Mirza, who claims to be the world's first devoutly Muslim woman stand-up comic, is used to walking a very thin line. She made her...

Egypt struggles to get subsidised food to poor amid dollar crisis

"Any rice?" says the woman, leaning into a shop in Cairo and brandishing a green smartcard that carries her family's food credits. The shopkeeper...

Gulf Arabs race to release youth potential in age of cheap oil

Like the prototype drone of Emirati student Talib Alhinai, the ambitions of young people across the Gulf Arab states need to soar if they...

Trump for president? Chances improve after New Hampshire

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's odds at winning the White House improved significantly after his decisive victory in Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire, online...

Want to be happy, tolerant, young? UAE has a ministry for that

It sounds a bit New Age, but the United Arab Emirates has just appointed state ministers for happiness, tolerance and youth. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid...

Saudi says ready to send forces to Syria if coalition decides

Saudi Arabia would be willing to commit its special forces to Syria should the international coalition decide to deploy ground troops against Islamic State,...

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