LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Rights group Amnesty International said on Monday that its website has been blocked in Saudi Arabia after the group criticised a draft Saudi anti-terrorism law.
"Access to Amnesty International's website has been blocked in Saudi Arabia... following the organization's criticism of a draft anti-terror law that would stifle peaceful protest in the kingdom," it said in a sta [...]
SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - The suicide bomber who killed nine soldiers in Aden, Yemen's main southern city, was a Saudi member of Al-Qaeda, the official Saba news agency on Monday quoted an interior ministry official as saying.
"The suicide bomber who carried out the attack was Turki Saad Mohammed Qulays al-Shahrani," the official said, according to Saba, referring to Sunday's bombing in the port ci [...]
TUNIS (AFP) - (AFP) - A Tunisian court on Thursday opened and quickly adjourned two more trials of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, now living in exile in Saudi Arabia, accusing him of corruption and property fraud.
The court granted a request by the defendants' court-appointed lawyers who said they needed more time to prepare their case, scheduling the next hearing for Jul [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - A top aide to US President Barack Obama called Sunday on Yemen's injured President Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a deal transferring power, during a face-to-face meeting in Saudi Arabia.
Saleh, who has ruled Yemen since 1978, received top US counter-terrorism official John Brennan in a hospital in Riyadh where he is recovering after being badly burned in a bo [...]
DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) figure asked Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Qatar to reconsider their policy of never having sent a woman to an Olympic Games at their session here on Friday.
"We hope that these three countries will send women to next year's Olympic Games in London," declared Anita DeFrantz, the American president of the [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top Israeli official said he was unaware of a disputed German deal to sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia but had complete confidence in the German government, in an interview published Thursday.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly about to buy 200 Leopard-2s, Germany's main battle tank which is also produced under licence in Spain, for a multi-billion-euro (dolla [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) - (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's ailing Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has undergone an operation in a New York hospital, an official at the kingdom's consulate in the US metropolis told AFP on Wednesday.
"He is in New York. He has been operated on," said the official, who declined to be named discussing private matters of the royal family and did not provide further deta [...]
SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemen's deputy information minister on Sunday ruled out any transfer of power in Yemen so long as wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains hospitalised in Saudi Arabia.
"Our moral values do not allow us to discuss a transfer of power as the president lies on his sick bed" in Riyadh, where he was flown on June 4 for treatment after an explosion at his palace compound in [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - (AFP) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is hospitalised in Saudi Arabia for injuries sustained in an attack, is over as a leader but his regime remains, a key opponent said in statements published Saturday.
"Saleh, as a person" is no longer a political player in Yemen, Yassin Saeed Noman, who heads the Common Forum grouping of parliamentary opposition parties, told [...]
JAKARTA (AFP) - (AFP) - Indonesia will suspend sending domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia after the beheading of a maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, a minister said on Wednesday.
"The Indonesian government has decided to impose a moratorium on sending workers to Saudi Arabia," Labour Minister Muhaimin Iskandar was quoted by state news agency Antara as saying.
The report [...]
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