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Saudi woman who climbed Everest tells countrywomen: Challenge yourselves
Adventurer Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi woman and youngest Arab to conquer Everest, urged women in the conservative Muslim kingdom of the Gulf to “challenge themselves” as she arrived back in the region. Her group of four, including a Qatari royal, a Palestinian and an Iranian, was greeted with cheers…
Rights group urges United Arab Emirates not to deport striking immigrants
Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged the United Arab Emirates not to deport migrant building workers for staging a rare strike to demand better pay and conditions. “It would be scandalous if the UAE deported workers who have taken a courageous stand for their basic rights,” HRW Middle East director…
United Arab Emirates Islamists confess to forming military arm
Islamists detained in the United Arab Emirates have confessed to forming a secret organisation that includes a military wing aimed at establishing an Islamist state, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Members of the banned Al-Islah, or Reform, association, said they planned to topple the UAE regime, a federation of seven…
U.S. Navy opens fire in Gulf as boat nears ship
A US navy ship fired on a boat off the United Arab Emirates on Monday in the southern Gulf where tension has been rising after it ignored warnings, the navy said. It gave no details on the outcome of the incident, which was being investigated, but US media reports said…
Libya says 330,000 voters register for June poll
TRIPOLI — The chief of Libya’s election commission said on Sunday that 330,000 people have so far registered as voters to elect the nation’s first constituent assembly in June. “The number of voters registered by yesterday (Saturday) evening is 330,000,” Nuri al-Abbar told a news conference in Tripoli. Abbar said…
Emirates security court jails blogger
A United Arab Emirates court on Sunday sentenced a blogger and four other democracy activists to prison terms after finding them guilty of charges including insulting the Gulf state’s leaders. The State Security Court handed the blogger, Ahmed Mansoor, a three-year prison sentence and the four others each received two…
Gulf states advise nationals to leave Syria
Bahrain and Qatar on Sunday called on their citizens to leave unrest-swept Syria after the United Arab Emirates also advised its citizens to stay away. The call, issued on the day the Arab League was deciding on sanctions against Damascus over its deadly crackdown on dissent, was issued because of…
U.S. may sell precision-guided bombs to UAE: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government may soon announce plans for a large sale of precision-guided bombs to the United Arab Emirates, a source familiar with the arms sales plans said late on Thursday, as tensions mounted with Iran over its nuclear program. The Pentagon is considering a significant sale…
U.S. to boost Gulf presence after Iraq pullout: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is planning to bolster its military presence in the Gulf after it pulls out its remaining troops from Iraq, the New York Times reported in its online edition on Sunday. President Barack Obama said on October 21 that he had decided to withdraw all…
Morning is world’s happy time, says Twitter
WASHINGTON — People around the world are happiest in the morning, according to a US study on Thursday that analyzed hundreds of millions of messages on the microblogging site Twitter. Cornell University sociologists used language software to detect the presence of positive words in 509 million tweets from 2.4 million…
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