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Opinion

 Hey Saudis, Let the Women Play!

Time for the IOC to enforce it's no discrimination rule

Aug 14, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most beautiful sight in the Olympics' opening ceremony came when Egypt’s 26 female competitors strode into the stadium, writes Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian Muslim, in the Washington Post. Women also carried flags for Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, filling Eltahawy with pride. And then came Saudi... More »

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Islam • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • women • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Muslim women

 Saudi Cops
 Target Flirty
 Dog Walkers

Riyadh officials confiscating pets in public

Aug 13, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in a Saudi province have banned the sale of cats and dogs after complaints that flirtatious men are “using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. Although owning a pet isn’t illegal, the religious police say they’... More »

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pets • Saudi Arabia • Koran • veterinarian • Muhammad • religious police

 OPEC Heads for
 Trillon-Dollar
 Payday

Oil cartel doubles its income on soaring prices, production

Aug 11, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - OPEC nations have shattered records for income this year, earning as much money in the first 6 months of 2008 as they did in all of 2007, the Financial Times reports. The Saudi-led cartel of oil-exporting nations took home $645 billion in the first two quarters and is on course... More »

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oil • Saudi Arabia • OPEC • oil production • oil prices

 China's Thirst for
 Gaz-Guzzlers
 Boosts Oil Demand

SUV sales jump 43% over last year

Jul 28, 08 3:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - While soaring gas prices are driving Americans to buy more energy-efficient cars, Chinese consumers are opting for gas-guzzling Buicks and Hummers, reports the Washington Post. China accounts for 40% of the world's recent increase in oil demand. There were few private cars in China 15 years ago, but today... More »

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China • Russia • Saudi Arabia • Venezuela • India • gas prices • Hummer • oil demand • Buick • oil subsidies • International Energy Agency

OPINION

McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

Republican's 'cowboy antagonism' would sow discord with Russia, China, others

Jul 16, 08 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic—at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’... More »

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China • Iran • Russia • John McCain • Saudi Arabia • G-8 • League of Democracies • autocracies

Dear God: Please Lower Gas Prices!

Prayer group pleads for divine intervention with ascendant pump costs

Jul 4, 08 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many analysts say there isn't a prayer of gas prices coming down any time soon, but there's a group out there bent on proving them wrong, reports CNS News. The Prayer at the Pump Movement, led by Seventh-Day Adventist Rocky Twyman, has been holding vigils at gas stations across the... More »

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Saudi Arabia • gas prices • oil price • prayer

Saudis May Boost Oil Supply Even Higher

But OPEC blames speculators and credit crisis for high prices

Jun 22, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A hastily organized summit meeting in Saudi Arabia today offered little relief to oil consumers, Bloomberg reports. The Saudis did vow to increase production if needed, but OPEC blamed speculators and the credit crisis, not markets, for surging oil prices. "Saudi Arabia is prepared and willing to produce additional... More »

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oil • Saudi Arabia • OPEC • oil price • oil production • foreign oil • oil companies • oil crisis • oil industry

analysis

 Saudi Oil Boost 
 Little More Than PR 

Adding half-million barrels won't dent prices, analysts say

Jun 18, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia consenting to increase oil output is more public-relations ploy than problem-solver, Vivienne Walt writes in Time, since the half-million extra barrels a day won't make much of a dent, if the Saudis even have that much to spare. One analyst says the move is really an attempt “... More »

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Saudi Arabia • recession • crude oil • oil reserves

Saudis Bumping Oil Flow
2% to Slow Soaring Prices

July increase adds 200,000 barrels a day to pipeline

Jun 16, 08 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia, worried soaring prices could weaken the world's appetite for oil, will increase production by 200,000 barrels a day, beginning next month, the Saudi oil minister told UN chief Ban Ki-moon in a meeting yesterday. The move follows a May increase of 300,000 barrels, the AP notes. More »

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United Nations • Saudi Arabia • OPEC • oil price • oil production

Saudis to Boost Oil Output to Record Level

Kingdom aims to stabilize prices to protect oil market

Jun 14, 08 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia aims to put the brakes on oil prices by raising output to its highest ever, the New York Times reports. The kingdom resisted calls from President Bush earlier this year to boost production, but is now concerned that record oil prices could lead to lower demand in the... More »

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oil • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • OPEC • oil price • oil production

Oil Prices Threaten
US-Saudi Relations

Washington loses leverage as Beijing gains clout with Riyadh

Jun 8, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The weakening dollar and rising oil prices are marring more than just the American economy: It’s also eroding the long-standing friendly relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reports. A bleak economic outlook has cost the US clout with its oil-producing ally. “There’... More »

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China • Saudi Arabia • Asia • OPEC • United States • oil price • oil production • George W. Bush

CIA Chief: Tide Turning Against Al-Qaeda

Hayden says terrorists are all but defeated
in Iraq, Saudi Arabia

May 30, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda is "near strategic defeat" in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and the tide is turning against it elsewhere, CIA chief Michael Hayden says in a surprisingly upbeat Washington Post interview today. In contrast to a  reports of an al-Qaeda resurgence a year ago, Hayden now cites “significant setbacks... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • CIA • Saudi Arabia • Michael Hayden • al-Qaeda • al-Qaeda in Iraq

OPINION

Dear Yanks: Time to Snap Out of Oil Coma

Leave demagoguery, pandering behind, get real on energy policy

May 20, 08 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Romancing the Saudis and railing against speculators won’t accomplish anything, Gerard Baker tells American pols in the Guardian: A second industrial revolution is driving oil prices up and there’s no turning back. Stop the populism— the "economically illiterate idea for a gas tax holiday," for instance—... More »

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Russia • Saudi Arabia • crude oil • populism

OPINION

 Bush, Stop Begging the Saudis 

Don't publicly ask for oil favors you won't get, WSJ writes

May 17, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whichever adviser sent President Bush to plead with the Saudi king to help bring down oil prices should be canned, the Wall Street Journal opines. Bush had the same request turned down during a visit in January, and the rebuff is even more humiliating the second time around. If Bush... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • oil price • oil production • George W. Bush

 Saudis Won't Budge on Oil 

Leaders again dismiss Bush request for help reining in US gas prices

May 16, 08 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia's leaders today denied a request from visiting President Bush that they boost oil production to help ease rising gas prices, the AP reports. "Supply and demand are in balance today," the kingdom's oil minister said, with the commodity pushing $128 per barrel. "How much does... More »

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Saudi Arabia • oil price • oil production • George W. Bush

Women-Only Saudi Hotel Raises Debate on Progress

Critics worry about segregation

May 15, 08 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi businesswomen are embracing a hotel for women-only that frees them of the pressures from a society in which they can't drive and, until January, couldn't check into a hotel without permission from a male guardian. But others are concerned the Luthan Hotel & Spa simply reinforces the kingdom's gender... More »

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Saudi Arabia • women • women's rights • luxury hotels • gender segregation

 OPEC May Boost
 Oil Output to
 Ease Prices 

Cartel may meet early and backpedal on current policy

May 9, 08 7:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - As crude hit $125 a barrel today, one OPEC member said the cartel may boost oil production to relieve prices, the New York Times reports. The move would conflict with OPEC's public stand that speculators, not oil supplies, have been keeping prices high. “We would consider among other... More »

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Saudi Arabia • OPEC • Libya • investment • gas prices • oil price • oil production • speculation • supply and demand

 Blasts Accompany
 Crippling Lebanon Strike 

Casualties unclear as workers demand higher wages amid government crisis

May 7, 08 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Explosions and gunfire sounded throughout Beirut today as a politically charged workers' strike turned violent. A Hezbollah-led opposition party had called for a one-day general strike, ostensibly for higher wages, the BBC reports. But things soon turned ugly, with flaming barricades along major roads, and gunfire between various factions in... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Lebanon • Syria • Hezbollah • strike • general strike

 Mozart Helps Snap
 Saudi Taboos 

Mixed-gender concert signals opening to outside world

May 3, 08 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mozart hasn't challenged cultural taboos for more than 200 years, but last night he caused quite a stir in Saudi Arabia. A German-based quartet gave the nation its first public classical concert where men were allowed to hear Mozart and sit next to, gasp, women. "The concert is a... More »

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Saudi Arabia • classical music • concert • Muslim women • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

OPINION

Gas-Tax Break Shameful Policy

McCain-Clinton pandering just
another indication of backward US attitude

Apr 30, 08 5:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “McCain-Clinton” gas-tax vacation is an abomination of energy policy, Thomas Friedman declares in the New York Times. “This is money laundering: We borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks.”... More »

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China • Saudi Arabia • renewable energy • tax credit • gas tax holiday

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