News: Saudi Arabia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Saudi Arabia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Saudi Arabia: news

Saudi executions 'could fuel tensions'

Sunday, January 3rd 2016, 1:41
related countries: United States

The US warns that Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric could worsen sectarian tensions in the Middle East.
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Anger at Saudi Shia cleric's execution

Saturday, January 2nd 2016, 22:09
related countries: Iran

Saudi Arabia's execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr sparks anger and protests, with chief rival Iran leading vehement condemnation.
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VIDEO: Anger grows over Shia cleric's execution

Saturday, January 2nd 2016, 18:09

Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry has said.
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Saudi Arabia executes top Shia cleric

Saturday, January 2nd 2016, 15:31

Prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr is among 47 people executed for terrorism offences in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says.
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Saudi coalition ends Yemen ceasefire

Saturday, January 2nd 2016, 15:23
related countries: Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen ends a ceasefire that began last month, blaming violations by Houthi rebels and its allies.
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Saudi Arabia deficit swells on oil

Monday, December 28th 2015, 22:33

Saudi Arabia's budget deficit soars to $98bn this year as the world's biggest oil exporter counts the cost of falling crude prices.
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Saudi hospital fire kills at least 25

Thursday, December 24th 2015, 11:50

A fire in the early hours of the morning at a hospital in Saudi Arabia kills 25 people and injures more than 100, the Civil Defence Agency says.
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Saudi Arabia 'spares Sri Lankan maid'

Wednesday, December 23rd 2015, 12:33
related countries: Sri Lanka

The life of a Sri Lankan maid due to be stoned to death in Saudi Arabia for adultery has been spared, Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says.
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Saudi Arabia 'jails reformist writer'

Monday, December 21st 2015, 18:51

A Saudi writer who has called for political reform is reported to have been sentenced to four years in jail and banned from writing for 15 years.
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Surprise at Saudi military coalition plan

Wednesday, December 16th 2015, 17:24

A number of countries have expressed surprise at being included in Saudi Arabia's planned anti-terror coalition.
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Qatari hunters kidnapped in Iraq

Wednesday, December 16th 2015, 16:38
related countries: Iraq, Qatar

Gunmen kidnap at least 27 Qatari hunters, including members of the ruling family, in a desert area of Iraq near Saudi Arabia, Iraqi officials say.
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Islamic anti-terrorism coalition formed

Tuesday, December 15th 2015, 12:45

Saudi Arabia announces the formation of a 34-nation military alliance to fight terrorism made up of mainly Muslim countries.
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VIDEO: First Saudi women politicians elected

Sunday, December 13th 2015, 18:13

Women have been elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia for the first time after a ban on women taking part in elections was lifted.
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Saudi Arabia has first women politicians

Sunday, December 13th 2015, 16:35

Women are elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia for the first time after a ban on women taking part in elections was lifted.
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VIDEO: Women cast votes in Saudi elections

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 21:51

Counting is under way after landmark elections in Saudi Arabia, which have seen women voting and standing as candidates for the first time.
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In pictures: First vote for Saudi women

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 16:35

Women vote for first time in conservative Saudi Arabia
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Saudi women cast their first votes

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 15:28

Conservative Saudi Arabia has held an unprecedented election, with women voting and standing as candidates for the first time.
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Saudi prince in Twitter spat with Trump

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 14:52
related countries: United States
related places: Trump

A Saudi prince trades insults with US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in the wake of Mr Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the US.
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VIDEO: Meet women standing in Saudi election

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 1:32

Women in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia are voting for the first time, in municipal elections.
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VIDEO: Women to stand in Saudi elections

Friday, December 11th 2015, 18:05

Saudi Arabia is marking a political milestone this weekend with municipal elections which for the first time will see women voting more than 900 women standing as candidates.
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Air strikes 'targeting Yemen schools'

Friday, December 11th 2015, 16:31
related countries: United Kingdom, United States, Yemen

Air strikes by Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces have targeted schools in Yemen, and the US and UK should reconsider arms sales as a result, Amnesty International says.
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VIDEO: Saudi women vote for first time

Friday, December 11th 2015, 0:51

On Saturday 12 December Saudi Arabia will go to the polls, and women in the country will be voting and standing for office for the first time.
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VIDEO: Can latest talks help end Syria conflict?

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 11:40
related countries: Syria
related places: Riyadh

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner assesses the Riyadh talks' chance of helping facilitate a peaceful end to Syria's four-year civil war.
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How much do you know about life as a woman in Saudi Arabia?

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 1:56

Test your knowledge of women's rights in the kingdom
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Syrian opposition seeks unified front

Tuesday, December 8th 2015, 11:28
related places: Riyadh

Syria's disparate political and armed opposition factions meet in Riyadh in an attempt to come up with a unified front ahead of possible peace talks.
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Saudi maid adultery case 'to reopen'

Tuesday, December 8th 2015, 7:27
related countries: Sri Lanka

Saudi Arabia agrees to reopen the case of a Sri Lankan maid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, Sri Lanka officials say.
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Saudi executions in steep rise

Friday, December 4th 2015, 0:52

Why is Saudi Arabia executing people at unprecedented rate?
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MSF clinic hit in Yemen air strike

Thursday, December 3rd 2015, 14:52
related countries: Yemen

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says one of its clinics in southern Yemen has been hit in a Saudi-led coalition air strike, wounding nine people.
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VIDEO: Singing back at the trolls

Friday, November 27th 2015, 17:35
related countries: United States

Rotana Tarabzouni is a Saudi born singer now studying in the US. She's been trolled on Twitter for her choice to sing and campaign for women's rights.
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Saudi Arabia 'planning mass executions'

Thursday, November 26th 2015, 18:24

Amnesty International expresses alarm at reports that Saudi Arabia plans to execute more than 50 people - including Ali al-Nimr - in a single day.
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Two policemen shot dead in Saudi Arabia

Wednesday, November 18th 2015, 9:41

Two policemen have been shot dead in a predominantly Shia Muslim region of eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says.
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VIDEO: Indian maid: 'They cut my arm off'

Thursday, November 12th 2015, 23:06
related countries: India

BBC Newsnight speaks to a maid from India, Kasturi Munirathinam, who alleges her employer in Saudi Arabia chopped off her arm.
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Briton jailed in Saudi Arabia back home

Wednesday, November 11th 2015, 10:40
related countries: United Kingdom

A British pensioner who was jailed for possessing alcohol in Saudi Arabia has returned to the UK, the Foreign Office confirms.
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Palestine must move matches - Fifa

Wednesday, November 4th 2015, 14:41
related countries: Malaysia

Fifa says Palestine must move home World Cup qualifiers against Saudi Arabia and Malaysia to "neutral ground" in Asia.
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Late Saudi king's 'wife' wins payout

Tuesday, November 3rd 2015, 14:53

A woman who says she was the "secret wife" of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia wins a multimillion-pound claim at the High Court.
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Saudi prince charged over drugs haul

Monday, November 2nd 2015, 14:56
related countries: Lebanon
related places: Beirut

Prosecutors in Lebanon have charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug smuggling, a week after a record seizure at Beirut's airport.
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Saudis: Iran must accept Assad exit

Thursday, October 29th 2015, 22:21
related countries: Iran, Syria

As international talks on the conflict in Syria begin, Saudi Arabia says Iran must accept the removal of President Bashar al-Assad.
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VIDEO: Saudi FM: No doubt Assad will go

Thursday, October 29th 2015, 15:15
related countries: Austria, Syria
related places: Vienna

There is "no doubt" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "will go", Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has said ahead of talks in Vienna.
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Saudi blogger wins human rights prize

Thursday, October 29th 2015, 11:48

The Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose flogging sentence caused a global outcry, is awarded the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
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VIDEO: Man facing lashes in Saudi to be freed

Wednesday, October 28th 2015, 23:23
related countries: United Kingdom

A British man, who was threatened with flogging for having homemade wine in his car in Saudi Arabia, is to be freed.
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