Etiqueta: Arabia
Guantanamo Bay detainee allowed to return to Saudi Arabia after 20 años
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A man accused of attempting to join hijackers in carrying out the September 11 attacks has been repatriated to his home country of Saudi Arabia for mental health treatment after two decades detained at Guantánamo Bay,...
Women apply in their thousands to drive trains in Saudi Arabia
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A job advert to recruit 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia has attracted 28,000 applicants, highlighting the scale of pent-up demand as the conservative kingdom loosens some restrictions on women’s employment. Th ...
Saudi Arabia transfers $80bn in shares to wealth fund for green projects
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Saudi Arabia has transferred shares worth $80bn to its sovereign wealth fund as the oil-rich nation hopes to rival Norway and Singapore’s state-managed funds and invest in green projects. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sal...
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee urges Justin Bieber to cancel Saudi Arabia performance
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The fiancee of murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on Justin Bieber to cancel his performance in the kingdom’s second-largest city Jeddah scheduled for 5 diciembre. Khashoggi was killed and dis...
Eternos prohibidos en Arabia Saudita, Qatar y Kuwait después de que Disney rechazara los recortes de homosexuales: informes
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La última aventura de gran presupuesto de Marvel, Eternals, ha sido retirada de Arabia Saudita., Qatar y Kuwait después de que Disney supuestamente se negó a cortar un beso entre personas del mismo sexo. Según el reportero de Hollywood, la película de $ 200 millones no b ...
Specter of problematic crown prince looms over Biden’s Saudi Arabia policy
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When Joe Biden was recently asked whether gas prices would come down soon, the US president offered a cryptic explanation of how his strained relations with Saudi Arabia were at least partly to blame for the price at ...
Less than a third of UK public would support a Saudi Arabia trade deal
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Less than a third of the UK public would support a trade deal with Saudi Arabia, data published by the government has revealed as the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, meets senior figures in the oil-rich state. Truss is ...
Saudi Arabia accused of forcing Yemenis in the kingdom out of their jobs
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Saudi Arabia is imposing a collective dual punishment on the Yemeni people by driving them out of jobs in the kingdom while continuing to impose an oil and aid blockade on Yemen, it was claimed at the UN security coun...
Newcastle fans speak of suffering but what about actual suffering in Saudi Arabia?
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There used to be a sport over there. Football has never been pure. There have always been the rich looking to improve their reputations by investing in clubs. Even in its amateur days, football was rotten, amateurism ...
Saudi Arabia takeover of Newcastle United will be decided in January
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The controversial Saudi Arabian-led takeover of Newcastle United is set to be approved if the club can prove the Gulf kingdom will not be a director of the club. That issue is due to be determined in early January whe...
Where’s Edelyn? The search for the Filipina maid who vanished in Saudi Arabia
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Edelyn Eborda Astudillo wanted a better life for her three children. The 36-year-old from Mariveles in the Philippines, y su esposo, Crisanto, had been unemployed for six years and things were getting desperate. S...
Outcry as Saudi Arabia executes young Shia man for ‘rebellion’
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Saudi Arabia has executed a young man who was convicted on charges stemming from his participation in an anti-government rebellion by minority Shia Muslims. A leading rights group said his trial was “deeply flawed”. I...
Tyson Fury announces he will fight Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia
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Tyson Fury has announced his all-British heavyweight showdown with Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on 14 agosto. In a video posted to Twitter, the 32-year-old said: “I have got some massive news. I have...
‘No reason’ Joshua v Fury fight in Saudi Arabia won’t be finalised this week
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Eddie Hearn has insisted there is “no reason” why Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight unification showdown with Tyson Fury won’t be finalised this week, with the fight set to take place in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on eit...
High court to hear legal battle over UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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Anti-arms trade campaigners have been given permission to challenge in the high court the UK government’s decision to resume the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the war in Yemen. Campaign Against Ar...
Saudi Arabia jails alleged satirist ‘identified in Twitter infiltration’
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A Saudi court’s decision to sentence an aid worker to 20 years in prison for allegedly using a satirical Twitter account to mock the Riyadh government has been linked to the infiltration of Twitter by Saudi agents in ...