Saudi Arabia
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FM Spox calls on Washington to announce decision on lifting sanctions
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the remaining key topics in Vienna Talks require special political decisions, adding that Washington should make its decisions on lifting sanctions.
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Hezbollah Warns Saudi Dynasty: Lebanon Subdued Your Masters
A number of commanders and politicians from Lebanon as well as the Arab countries delivered speeches, calling on the Saudi royal family to halt its aggression on Yemen and deactivate its dictator policy against the local citizens.
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UAE Activist Subjected to Reprisal for Exposing Abuses in Prison
Emirati prison authorities have retaliated against rights activist Ahmed Mansoor after the publication of letters he wrote detailing his mistreatment and inhumane conditions in jail.
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Arbitrary Arrest to Muffle Israel Normalization Opponents
An independent nongovernmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia said the Riyadh regime is making use of arbitrary arrest to silence vociferous opponents of normalization of diplomatic relations between the kingdom and Israel.
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Israel Working Towards Normalization with Indonesia, Saudi Arabia
A high-ranking official at the “Israeli” entity’s so-called Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the entity is working behind the scenes towards normalization of diplomatic relations with Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, more than a year after the regime reached similar agreements with a number of Arab states.
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Sayyed Nasrallah to Saudi King: Hezbollah Resistance Is Not Terrorist, You Are So!
Sayyed Nasrallah hit back at the Saudi King who described Hezbollah as terrorist. He stressed that the terrorist is the one who sent thousands of Saudi Takfiris to fight in Syria and Iraq.
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Saudi Air Raids on Sanaa Airport Leads to Flights Suspension
Monday’s Saudi air raids on Sanaa airport led to the suspension of flights as it targeted the main facilities of the complex.
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Muslims can virtually touch Kaaba's black stone from home
We have great religious and historical sites that we must digitise and communicate to everyone through the means of latest technology.
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Snowden's award-winning director: Pegasus extremely violent, invasive
Famous director Laura Poitras' latest documentary criticizes Israeli-manufactured spyware firm NSO and its surveillance software Pegasus.
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Yemeni forces advance to Marib after securing eastern al-Balaq mountains
Local Yemeni sources reported to Al Mayadeen that the Yemeni army and popular committees have liberated the eastern al-Balaq mountain range and are advancing toward Marib.
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Saudi Arabia extends foreign pilgrims’ stay to 30 days
Saudi Arabia has relaxed anti-virus curbs, allowing life to return to normal. The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said that the 30-day stay is allowed.
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French Arms to Saudi Arabia, the UAE Used in Yemen
The Disclose website reveals that France delivered tens of thousands of arms to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar during President Francois Hollande's reign in 2016.
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Muhammad Asad: a Jewish convert who devoted his life to serve Islam
One day in September 1926, a young Jewish journalist boarded a Berlin train. His name was Leopold Weiss. All around him he saw faces that were unhappy and vacant. Europe’s high culture, the advancement of sciences and material progress weren’t enough to make its people happy.
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Saudi bombs kill Yemeni children in holy month of Ramadan
Saudi Arabia bombarded Yemen at the beginning of Islam’s holy fasting month of Ramadan, leaving two children killed and four other people wounded.
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HRW condemns Saudi Arabia for ‘hateful language’ against Shia in textbooks
HRW said in a report the textbooks currently used in Saudi schools continued to portray negatively some practices associated with Shia Islam, even though the language they maintained “does not make direct reference to Shia Islam or use derogatory terms”,
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Human rights groups criticize Saudi Arabia’s violation of Shia Scholars’ rights
A number of international human rights organizations condemned Saudi Arabia for its pressures against Shia clerics and scholars in the Arab country.
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Pakistan PM refutes any contact with Zionist regime
Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has once again denied any pressure on the country to recognize Zionist regime and strongly rebutted reports about contacts between Islamabad and Tel Aviv.
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Saudi deported Indians for protesting against Narendra Modi's anti-Muslim register
Motivated by Shaheen Bagh Protests in India last year, where a group of mainly Muslim women organised a sit-in to demonstrate against the National Register of Citizens (NRC),
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Israeli spy chief’s visit to Saudi cancelled after Netanyahu meeting leaks: Report
Saudi Arabian officials have reportedly cancelled a planned visit by the head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, after details of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret trip to the kingdom were leaked.
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MBS-Netanyahu-Pompeo meeting in Saudi indicates military action against major country: Hamas
Member of Hamas’ politburo said that Netanyahu’s visit to Saudi prepares for a security and military support against a major country in the region.
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Saudi bans names deemed ‘anti-Sharia’
Saudi authorities have announced bans on names considered to violate Islamic Sharia law. The restrictions come amid Interior Ministry’s Civil Affairs Agency introducing new rules for registering names in the kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia fails in bid to join UN rights council
Saudi Arabia has failed to join the United Nations Human Rights Council after an international non-governmental organization called on the United Nations (UN) to refuse Riyadh’s bid.
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Mecca to reopen for limited pilgrimages after 7-month pause for virus
Saudi Arabia will reopen the Muslim holy places for the year-round umrah pilgrimage on Sunday, scaled back and with extensive health precautions, seven months after coronavirus prompted its suspension.
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Saudi Arabia unveils health measures that will allow pilgrims to visit Mecca
Saudi Arabia has released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam’s holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller, year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the coronavirus.
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Is Saudi Arabia setting the stage to forge ties with Israel?
Although the Imam of Mecca faced heat on social media for invoking Islam to indirectly justify normalisation with Israel, experts think that Riyadh may not be fully prepared to take such a brazen step.
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Muslim pilgrims perform last Hajj ritual in Makkah
According to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), after completing the major pillar of Hajj, the pilgrims descended Thursday from Mt. Arafat to the plain of Muzdalifah, where they spent the night, before heading in the morning to Mina, east of the holy city of Makkah.
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Muslim pilgrims scale Mount Arafat for peak of hajj
A tight security cordon has been erected all around the foot of the rocky hill outside Mecca, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, for the high point of the annual ritual.
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Deputy secretary-general of al-Nujaba:
Al-Kazemiz’s weak government cause of House of Saud’s impudence/Saudi Arabia a takfiri Regime
Al-Nujaba’s deputy secretary-general for seminary issues, in a live talk with Aletejah TV channel, condemning the insult of the Saudi paper, al-Sharq al-Awsat, stated, “This insult is a part of a comprehensive program for aggression towards the Iraqi sovereignty, land, nation, sources of emulation and national myths”, reported al-Nujaba’s Centre for Communications and Media Affairs in Iran.
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Saudi to allow around 1,000 pilgrims to perform hajj
“The number of pilgrims will be around 1,000, maybe less, maybe a little more,” Hajj Minister Mohammad Benten told reporters.
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Coronavirus: 25,000 British Muslims set to miss out on Hajj
The annual pilgrimage sees 2.5 million Muslims, including around 25,000 from Britain, travel to Mecca to attend prayers at the Masjid al Haram, gather on Mount Arafat and sleep under the stars on the plains of Muzdalifah.