UK website aimed at parents who fear children may join ISIS
Britain launches a new website on Tuesday which aims to educate Muslim teenagers against groups like ISIS, as the government backed the right of...
1,300 faltering school contracts withdrawn
RIYADH — The new school year began on Sunday with nearly 6 million children returning to their classes all over the Kingdom after the...
Turkish paedophile given ‘record 572-year sentence’
A Turkish court jailed a paedophile a record 572 years for abusing 18 children at the school where he worked, reports said Tuesday, as...
Turkish soap operas latest casualty of Mideast conflicts
A major Middle Eastern satellite network now believed to be majority-owned by Saudi Arabia has stopped airing Turkish soap operas, the latest entertainment casualty...
Oil options lurch closer to $20 Goldman doomsday forecast
When U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said last year that oil could fall as low as $20 per barrel, it assigned a fairly low...
Qatar slavery museum aims to address modern exploitation
Amid thatched ceilings and arched doorways in a traditional Qatari house in Doha, a projector beams a quote by Abraham Lincoln onto a wall:...
British explorer on 50-day trek across Arabia's 'Empty Quarter'
A team of walkers set off on a 50-day trek from Oman on Thursday that will take them across the world's largest sand desert,...
Ban virginity tests – Afghanistan rights panel
KABUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghanistan's human rights panel on Thursday backed an "unconditional ban" on virginity tests, saying they violate rights, lack scientific...
Idaho State University faces concerns over Islamaphobia on campus
Idaho State University's president said on Thursday he had been in talks with Saudi and Kuwaiti education officials seeking to allay concerns about students...
Israel announces curfews in some cities, towns
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced overnight curfews on some 40 cities and towns hit hard by the coronavirus.
But he backed...
