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January 12, 2013
8:22 am

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia waves to members of the Saudi Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2009 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar, File)

Saudi king grants women seats on advisory council

Female council members will still enter building from special gates, sit in reserved seats, wear a niqab, and pray in segregated areas

By Abdullah Al-Shihri

November 6, 2012
1:59 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

British PM: Grant Assad safe passage to end conflict

David Cameron says that if the Syrian leader wants to leave it ‘could be arranged’

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and David Stringer

April 28, 2012
6:23 pm

A protester is detained by security forces in front of the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, April 28, 2012 (photo credit: Ahmed Gomaa/AP)

Saudi Arabia closes embassy in Egypt following protests

Egyptian government issues statement expressing its ‘regret’; says Egyptian people hold Saudi Arabia in ‘great esteem’

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Sarah El Deeb