Articles tagged with: Saudi Arabia
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
The Pentagon recently announced Washington’s approval of a new USD 10 billion arms sale that for the first time involves three of its Middle East allies: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The arms deal came after “intensive defense shuttle diplomacy” over many months and “is one of the most significant and complex and comprehensive that we’ve seen,” senior Pentagon officials said at a media briefing, according to a transcript. Its price tag makes it second only t...
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack in the kingdom’s history. The bombing came as a shock to most Saudis and robbed the country of its relative innocence as far as internal violence was concerned. After decades of calm, Saudi Arabia suddenly became the scene ...
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Wednesday, 24 Apr, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat-A British businessman has been found guilty of fraud for selling thousands of fake bomb detection devices to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and several other...
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Friday, 19 Apr, 2013
I participated in the Janadriyah festival recently. Janadriyah, located twenty-six miles northeast of Riyadh, is the venue for Saudi Arabia's national festival of heritage and cult...
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Thursday, 21 Mar, 2013
RIYADH, Asharq Al-Awsat—Information obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat has revealed that one of the eighteen men arrested by Saudi authorities in connection with an espionage cell, ...
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Wednesday, 20 Mar, 2013
“Invest in whichever sector that could serve the young generation ... in the service sectors, like education, healthcare and coffee. We’re talking about frontier markets ... Ir...
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Friday, 15 Mar, 2013
An article entitled “Doctrines of People in Elections,” published on March 20, 2005, on the website Islam Today , described elections as a “mishap” and presented the ...
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Thursday, 14 Feb, 2013
The downfall of Mubarak and the election of Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt has brought the Muslim Brotherhood to the pinnacle of political power in the Arab world’s most po...
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Monday, 14 Jan, 2013
For Europe, the past few years have been a seemingly endless string of bad news: the 2008 financial crisis has lead to the destabilization of economies across the European Union, a...
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Thursday, 3 Jan, 2013
Gulf leaders and their representatives gathered in Bahrain for the thirty-third Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit on 24–25 December 2012. The meeting was relatively low k...
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