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Rights group rejects Saudi witchcraft charges

AP News yesterday

Rights group condemns Saudi death sentence against man convicted of witchcraft Saudi Arabia should overturn a death sentence imposed on a Lebanese national convicted of practicing witchcraft during a visit to the conservative kingdom, an international human rights group said in a ...

Yemenis protest at Iran embassy over northern war

Reuters US Online Report World News yesterday

SANAA (Reuters) - Around 200 protesters gathered outside the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, shouting slogans against what Yemen says is Iranian backing for northern rebels. The group of 200 chanted slogans such as "No to the plot of ...

Yemen conflict inflaming Saudi-Iranian rivalry

AP News 2 days ago

Border conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen rebels inflaming Saudi-Iranian rivalry For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen's war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry between the Middle East's ...

Nigeria leader off to Saudi check-up: official

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is due to travel to Saudi Arabia late Monday for a medical check-up, his office said. "The president will call on his personal physicians in Jeddah for follow-up medical checks," presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said in a statement. ...

Saudi troops killed in Yemen rebel clashes: report

Reuters US Online Report World News 4 days ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unspecified number wounded as they fought to stop new cross-border raids by Yemeni rebels, the Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on its website on Sunday. It said Saudi forces foiled attempts by ...

Three Saudi soldiers killed on Yemen border

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unidentified number of others wounded in an attack by Yemeni "infiltrators," a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday. The soldiers died on Saturday in an attack by "dozens" of infiltrators in the Jebel Rumayh area on ...

Three Saudi soldiers killed on Yemeni border

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unidentified number of others wounded in an attack by Yemeni "infiltrators," a Saudi daily reported on Sunday. The soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by "dozens" of infiltrators in the Jebel Rumayh area ...

Italy's Berlusconi in surprise Saudi trip

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid a previously unannounced visit to Middle East oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia on Saturday, the state news agency SPA reported. Berlusconi met King Abdullah and Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz separately to discuss unspecified bilateral ...

Swine flu kills first hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Swine flu has killed four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, health authorities said on Saturday only a few days before the massive Muslim gathering reaches its peak. An Indian man, a Moroccan woman and a Sudanese man -- all ...

Four pilgrim deaths from swine flu ahead of hajj

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage have died of swine flu, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Saturday. It said a Moroccan woman, a Sudanese man and an Indian ...

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