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David Cameron’s cabinet Tuesday renounced to lend its expertise to the Saudi penal system after opposition parties and human rights organizations accused Riyadh of ignoring human rights. ““This bid to provide the additional training to Saudi Arabia has been reviewed Read more
Boko Haram has killed 3,500 civilians in Nigeria and bordering countries this year even as a regional offensive has driven the Islamist militants from large tracts of territory, the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. According to Read more
The Financial Times revealed that the British Finance Minister is ready to lead a strong business delegation to Iran next year if Tehran respects the historic nuke accord it clinched with world leaders in July, in Vienna. George Osborne, the Read more
The British foreign secretary indicated Monday UK will remain wary about Iran even though diplomatic relations between the two countries have been warming up with the re-opening of the British embassy in Tehran after four years of shutdown. After re-opening Read more
Pro-government forces have pulled out of Ariha after intense fighting with a coalition of Islamist rebel groups known as the Army of Conquest led by the Al Nusra Front. With the fall of Ariha, the last government-controlled city in the Read more
The final document of the conference geared towards strengthening and expanding the world’s first arms-control treaty as part of the implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was rejected after four months of negotiations. The focal point Read more
The newly opened Al-Arab channel that started broadcasting from Bahrain on Sunday has been shut down by authorities on Monday. Reasons that led to the decision still remain unclear. Many have linked it to the interview with Al Wefaq’s Khalil Read more
Sources familiar with the opening of Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange market to Foreign Investors dossier have hinted that it is scheduled for April 2015. Saudi Arabia has one of the most restricted stock exchange markets that foreign investors have long Read more
Qatar has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The MoU is part of Qatar’s efforts to develop and promote domain names as the world turns into a more and more Read more
Given the role that social media has played in making the Arab Spring a success in most of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Arab states in the Gulf have reinforced their mechanisms aimed at easily overcoming Read more