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    Three men deported from Saudi Arabia for being ‘too irresistible to women’
    Three men were forcibly ejected from a cultural festival in Saudi Arabia amid concerns they were ‘too handsome’ for women to resist. Religious police in the conservative Islamic kingdom removed the trio, all from the United Arab Emirates, from the Jenadrivah Heritage and Culture Festival in Riyadh on Sunday. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention...
    April 18, 2013 23:32
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    Saudi registers first female lawyer: activist
    Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where strict Islamic sharia law applies, an activist said on Tuesday. “The road is open now to women to receive permits to practise as lawyers, after the registration of Arwa al-Hujaili as the first trainee lawyer,” rights activist Walid...
    April 9, 2013 20:16
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    Arabs urged to use social media to fight extremism
    Arab interior ministers were advised to confront the spread of extremism through social media networks with their own cyber knowhow, as they gathered for a security meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday. Mohammed Kuman, head of the council of Arab interior ministers, told the meeting that “extremist thought… on social networks has resulted in a major increase in terrorist...
    March 13, 2013 20:49
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    Saudi vice police order shops who employ men and women to put up segregation walls to keep them apart
    Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to put up walls to separate their male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws. The barriers need to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex. This follows Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islam which prohibits men and...
    January 30, 2013 22:04
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    Saudi girl, 15, barricades herself in bedroom after being married to 90-year-old groom for huge dowry
    A 90-year-old Saudi Arabian man is suing the family of his 15-year-old child-bride after she shut herself in her bedroom on their wedding night. The terrified teen locked the door from the inside so that her new husband could not enter on their first night as a married couple, and two days later she fled back to her parents’ home. Now her elderly husband wants his money...
    January 7, 2013 19:12
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    Saudi says budget surplus hit $102.9 bn in 2012
    Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its budget surplus hit 386 billion riyals ($102.9 billion) in 2012 as oil-dominated revenues surged, according to state television. Revenues were expected to reach 1.24 trillion riyals ($330.4 billion) by the end of the year, while expenditure would be 853 billion riyals ($227.5 billion), Al-Ekhbariyah TV reported, citing the finance...
    December 30, 2012 6:51