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Cigarettes off Saudi shelves amid price rise speculation

Cigarettes had disappeared from the shelves in some Saudi cities on Sunday amid speculation on social media that the government was about to raise...

Berlin film draws attentions to immigrants’ crisis

Films at this week's Berlinale have launched searing criticisms of capitalism and global inequality. In "Los Lobos", a young, recently widowed Mexican nurse sets off...

Artifacts from the sunken Titanic

The Titanic was traveling from England to New York when it struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912. The large and...

Ministry opens all job opportunities for women

Under pressure from the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Saudi Ministry of Labor has dropped a clause which protected women workers from hazardous and...

Mark Zuckerberg in Germany: no place for hate speech on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg conceded Friday that Facebook didn't do enough until recently to police hate speech on the social media site in Germany, but said...

375 Saudi civilians killed on its border in Yemen war

Mortars and rockets fired at Saudi Arabian towns and villages have killed 375 civilians, including 63 children, since the start of the Saudi-led military...

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...

Halep makes Qatar quarters despite ankle worry

Simona Halep shrugged off injury concerns to record a straight sets victory over Anastasija Sevastova on Thursday to progress to the Qatar Open quarter-finals. The...

The most sought terrorist in Europe got arrested in Spain

A former London rapper was arrested Monday in southern Spain on suspicion of joining Islamic State fighters in Syria. Police arrested Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and...

Israeli MPs vote to make Arabic language classes compulsory in schools

Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to make Arabic classes compulsory for students from the age of six, in a move backers hoped would help improve...

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