Saudi Arabia
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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.
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Saudi Arabia in ‘Secret’ Talks with Israel over Control of Al-Aqsa: Report
The Islamic Waqf Council is a Jordanian-appointed body, which oversees Muslim sites in al – Quds and has exclusive authority over the Al-Aqsa Compound.
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Saudi mosques reopen for prayers after closure
Worshipers were allowed to enter the mosques, except the mosques in the holy city of Makkah, for the dawn prayers with a limit of 40% capacity.
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Mecca to gradually ease virus restrictions from May 31
The first phase will begin on May 31, in which entering and exiting Mecca will be allowed between 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
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Saudi Arabia locks down Shia-majority region using coronavirus as excuse
In a statement released on Sunday, the Saudi Interior Ministry said no one would be allowed to enter or exit Qatif and that work at all public and private sectors in the region had been suspended with the exception of institutions providing necessary services.
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Saudi Arabia to execute five Shia teenagers: Rights group
The European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) said the Riyadh regime had arrested the youths during anti-government unrest in the country’s Shia-populated Qatif region in Eastern Province in 2011, Lebanese Al-Mayadeen reported
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Saudi court hands down life sentence to imprisoned Shia dissident
Human rights sources, requesting anonymity, said the court passed the ruling against Mustafa al-Khayyat over his active participation in protests in the Shia-majority Qatif region since 2011, .
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Saudi Arabia blocks Iran from Islamic grouping’s meeting: Tehran
Saudi authorities have not issued visas for the Iranian participants, ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.
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Epidemic of dengue fever kills dozens of children in conflict-stricken Yemen
“Seventy-eight children under 16 have already died in the outbreak of dengue-related illness in Yemen, with more than 52,000 suspected cases being recorded across the country,” Save the Children said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Kuala Lumpur Summit highlights fissures in Muslim international politics
Amidst the distraction of the politics surrounding Pakistan’s withdrawal, the heads of state of Malaysia, Turkey, Iran and Qatar discussed ways to counteract global trends in Islamophobia and their mutual interest in developing financial mechanisms between Muslim nations that circumvent the global dominance of the U.S. dollar.
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Reported Draft of US deal: New Palestine, shared al-Quds, Saudi control of al-Aqsa
According to Al-Mayadeen’s report on Monday, Trump’s so-called peace plan — which he calls the “deal of the century” — would see a trilateral agreement signed between Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement.
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Quran competition for Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia stated
According to Qaaf news agency, different stages of the competition will be held in the next two months.
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Over dozen ships carrying fuel, food seized in Saudi port: Yemeni official
The unnamed official at Hudaydah port told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Wednesday that 13 ships have been marooned at the port of Jizan in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia's detention of Palestinians intolerable: Hamas official
“The Saudi arrest campaign cannot be understood or accepted. These are Palestinians, who love their country and their cause just like all Palestinians living in diaspora.
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Saudi hold talks with Houthis to break Yemen deadlock
The "back-channel" negotiations began after the Houthis announced they would stop launching retaliatory drone and missile attacks against positions inside Saudi Arabia if Riyadh stopped its aggression, the paper said Saturday.