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Musharraf Leaves Home to Mend Fences

Sudden trip to Saudi Arabia likely attempt to forge deal with old foe

Nov 20, 07 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Pervez Musharraf traveled to Saudi Arabia today, and the desperate Pakistani president may attempt to broker a power-sharing deal with the PM he ousted in a 1999 coup, Reuters reports. Nawaz Sharif has said he will not meet with Musharraf while emergency rule is in effect, but Musharraf relaxed the... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif

Gulf States May Dump the Dollar

Sinking greenback fuels inflation in booming Gulf economies

Nov 20, 07 2:31 PM CST
(Newser) - The flagging greenback is forcing oil-rich Gulf states to consider uncoupling their currencies from the US dollar to fight runaway inflation at home and the devaluation of their own currencies, the Wall Street Journal reports. Leaders are considering everything from an outright break to revaluing their own currencies to pegging... More »

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Saudi Arabia • exchange rate • Kuwait • US dollar • US currency

Greenback Assaulted at
OPEC meeting

Dollar a 'worthless piece of paper,' Iran's president says

Nov 18, 07 9:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Calling it a "small and worthless piece of paper,” Iran’s president today urged OPEC's members to drop the depreciating US dollar as its official currency. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed President Bush for the dollar’s decline and its adverse effects. The comments highlight mounting tension among OPEC members,... More »

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Iran • Saudi Arabia • Venezuela • King Abdullah • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • OPEC • Qatar • foreign market • United Arab Emirates • Kuwait • oil price • US dollar • Hugo Chávez

Chavez Warns of $200 Oil if US Strikes Iran

But call to make OPEC 'geopolitical agent' rejected by Saudis

Nov 17, 07 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Crude oil prices could hit $150-$200 a barrel if Bush is “mad enough” to strike Iran, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned today at the OPEC summit. “The basis of all aggression is oil,” said Chavez, arguing that OPEC should set itself up as “an active geopolitical... More »

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Iran • oil • Saudi Arabia • Venezuela • King Abdullah • OPEC • oil price • Hugo Chávez • oil supply

Saudi Rape Victim Gets Jail for Appealing

19-year-old woman earns 200 lashes and
6 months in prison

Nov 16, 07 7:36 PM CST
(Newser) - A Saudi woman who was gang-raped by 14 men has been sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison, the BBC reports. Her original crime was being in the car with a man unrelated to her, but her punishment was doubled and prison time added when she appealed the... More »

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Saudi Arabia • appeal • rape • Islamic Sharia law • death sentence • Saudi rape victim

Oil Drops to
$91 as Rush
to $100 Stalls

Saudi oil minister blames speculators, says $60 is more like it

Nov 14, 07 7:37 AM CST
(Newser) - After gushing toward $100 a barrel, oil traded as low as $90.13 yesterday, closing at $91.17. Analysts said the downward pressure could continue as demand for oil slows and OPEC increases production, reports the Wall Street Journal. Saudi Arabia's oil minister, meanwhile, told the Globe and Mail... More »

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Saudi Arabia • OPEC • solar energy • oil price • crude oil

Pimp My
Airbus A380

Billionaire Saudi prince plans to transform world's largest jet
into flying palace

Nov 13, 07 10:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A billionaire Saudi prince plans to convert one of the world's largest passenger planes into a flying palace. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the first purchaser of the luxury version of the double-decker Airbus A380, price tag $320 million-plus. And that's before he tricks it out with amenities that may... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Airbus • Airbus A380 • Dubai Air Show • Alwaleed bin Talal

Saudi King Meets the Pope

King Abdullah travels to the Vatican on his European tour

Nov 6, 07 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah visited with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today—the first official meeting of any pope with a reigning Saudi monarch. The visit comes as relations are improving between the Vatican and the Muslim world, the BBC reports. Still, the pontiff was expected to press Abdullah... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Pope Benedict XVI • King Abdullah • Vatican

Saudis: We Could Have Stopped 9/11

No bombings if they'd been consulted in a 'credible manner'

Nov 2, 07 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan claims the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if the US had consulted the kingdom in a "credible" way. The claim mirrored remarks earlier in the week by King Abdullah that the Saudis could have helped the British stop the September 2005... More »

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Saudi Arabia • British terror attacks • Prince Bandar bin Sultan • al-Qaeda

Saudi, Brit Royals Dine

King Abdullah
sweeps into London
with 23 advisers
and 400 aides

Oct 31, 07 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the first visit of a Saudi king to the UK in 20 years, King Abdullah was treated to a Buckingham Palace banquet last night. His host, Queen Elizabeth, said Britain and Saudi Arabia must fight together against "terrorists who threaten the way of life of our citizens."... More »

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Saudi Arabia • London • King Abdullah • Gordon Brown • Queen Elizabeth II • Buckingham Palace • Britain • London bombings

First Lady Pushes Saudis on Breast Cancer Awareness

Stigma prevents many women from seeking treatment for the disease

Oct 24, 07 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Laura Bush today swept into a country where breast cancer is such a taboo that it is often not prevented, treated, or publicly admitted—a high-profile woman trumpeting a pink-ribbon message where 70% of cases aren't reported until late stages. Though excellent care exists, many ignore "that disease" for... More »

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Middle East • Saudi Arabia • breast cancer • Laura Bush

World Bank
President Touts
New Strategy

Zoellick calls for fast funds and alternative energy sources

Oct 22, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Zoellick has outlined a new strategy for the World Bank, including giving the private sector a bigger role in development, speeding aid to countries coming out of conflict, and promoting green energy alternatives, Reuters reports. The new president  has been quick to reposition the global bank's mission following the... More »

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Saudi Arabia • World Bank • Paul Wolfowitz • Robert Zoellick • G8 summit • poverty • private secitor • International Development Association • Ibrahim al Assaf

Dubious Bush Benefactor Embedded in Clinton Camp

Alan Quasha makes a strange Dem bedfellow

Oct 21, 07 8:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has another backer as mysterious as the now-discredited Norman Hsu—this one a businessman who goes way back with George W. Bush. The Nation examines Clinton's ties to Alan Quasha, the Harken Energy magnate who bailed out the younger Bush’s oil company in 1986. Quasha now has... More »

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Sam Brownback • Hillary Clinton • Saudi Arabia • Philippines • campaign fundraising • Jesse Helms • Bahrain • Harken Energy • Terry McAuliffe • George W. Bush

Syria, Saudis
to be Invited
to Peace Table

Rice hopes Mideast talks will include
Arab neighbors

Sep 24, 07 6:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US will issue invitations to this fall's Mideast peace conference to Saudi Arabia, Syria and other Arab nations that don't have diplomatic ties to Israel, the Washington Post reports. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggested Sunday that attendance would bring with it "certain responsibilities" such as avoiding violence... More »

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Israel • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Palestine • Condoleezza Rice • The Quartet

Saudi Women Want to Drive

Neither Islamic law nor country's constitution forbids female drivers

Sep 18, 07 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of Saudi women is trying to regain a “stolen right”: driving. The group will deliver a petition to King Abdullah this week demanding the right to get behind the wheel. But prospects for lifting the world's only ban on female drivers are cloudy, the BBC reports, because... More »

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Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • women's rights • Islamic law • driving

Ex-PM Battles Expulsion
From Pakistan

Sharif's lawsuit may worsen Musharraf's tenuous position

Sep 11, 07 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ex-Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is taking Pervez Musharraf to court, hours after Musharraf ordered the deportation of his longtime political rival. In a move that casts further doubt on Musharraf's already shaky authority, Sharif—re-exiled to Saudi Arabia just 4 hours after his plane landed in Pakistan yesterday—filed suit... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • deportation • exile • Nawaz Sharif

Is Biggest Oilfield Running Dry?

Saudis may be hiding fact that world's largest reservoir is drying up

Sep 8, 07 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world’s most critical oil field might be nearing its end. Saudi Arabia, which accounts for 19% of all oil exports, doesn’t supply hard data about its production, but a little math sleuthing by a computer scientist shows the Ghawar reservoirs should be empty soon, the Atlantic reports. More »

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oil • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • Ghawar • oil field • oil supply

Exiled Ex-PM Allowed to Return to Pakistan

Court ruling another blow to Musharraf

Aug 23, 07 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former PM Nawaz Sharif may return to Pakistan from exile, the country’s Supreme Court ruled today, dealing another blow president Pervez Musharraf. Sharif had already declared his intentions to challenge the "dictatorship" of Musharraf, who deposed Sharif in a 1999 coup, in upcoming elections. But Sharif, the BBC... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • exile • Nawaz Sharif • Muslim League • Pakistan elections

Mystery Illness Kills Camels

Saudi government denies contagious disease is behind it

Aug 19, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Saudi Arabia, hundreds of camels have suddenly died for unknown reasons—232  were counted in the last four days in the Dawasir Valley, 250 miles south of Riyadh, Reuters reports. The Agriculture Ministry denies that an infectious disease is behind the deaths and blames problems with animal feed. Owners... More »

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Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • Riyadh • desert • camels • Dawasir Valley

Rice Pushes Peace Talks
With Olmert, Abbas

Takes mission to Jerusalem, West Bank

Aug 1, 07 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice took her diplomatic tour to Jerusalem and the West Bank today, hoping to rekindle peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas. Rice comes bearing a promise from Saudi Arabia to support the peace conference proposed by the White House for later this year, Reuters... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Condoleezza Rice • Fatah • United States • Jerusalem • West Bank

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