Saudi Women Won't Vote in Elections
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Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced Monday, dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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The United States rejected a  Saudi plan for an all-Muslim force to protect U.N. election  staff in Iraq because the force would not have been under U.S.  command, New York daily Newsday reported Monday.
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Under their modest flowing robes, two-thirds of Saudi women are too fat. They can try dieting, but you won&#039;t find many in aerobics classes or power-walking along this city&#039;s walking trails. And very few of their daughters attend schools that have physical education classes.
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A group of women in Saudi Arabia is for the first time to lobby the king for the right to drive cars.
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Amnesty condemns legal 'scandal' Amnesty International has condemned Saudia Arabia's decision to execute a 19-year-old Sri Lankan maid accused of murdering a baby in her care - despite the fact she was 17 at the time of the alleged offence and has denied confessing to the crime.â¦
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A group representing thousands of Sunni Arab mosques around the country said Wednesday that it would call for a boycott of the elections in January if the American
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The US House of Representatives has voted to deny all aid to Saudi Arabia, despite repeated assurances by the administration the desert kingdom was cooperating with the United States in the war on terror.
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King Abdullah of Jordan, one of the United States key allies in the Middle East, has come out strongly against holding elections in Iraq in January.
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JERUSALEM - Two Palestinian factions, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said yesterday that they would not take part in the Palestinian presidential election set for Jan. 9, a decision that could complicate efforts for a peaceful and orderly campaign.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi judge postponed the trial of three advocates seeking democratic overhauls yesterday after their supporters, in a rare show of public dissent, demonstrated for access and then protested loudly once allowed into court.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A senior Saudi royal ruled out direct elections to Saudi Arabia's unelected parliament in published comments, days after King Abdullah appeared to hold open the possibility.
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Riyadh kicks off Saudi Arabia's first nationwide municipal elections, but women are banned from the polls.
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Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some say women are already being kept away.
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Apathy and apprehension are keeping exiled Iraqis from registering to vote for Iraq's Jan. 30 elections, the head of Australia's overseas voting program said Saturday.
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Some 150,000 men have registered to vote in the first phase of the Saudi municipal elections, the electoral commission announced Saturday, a significantly smaller number than expected.
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Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in a hotel or a furnished apartment without a male guardian, according to a government decision
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast for fear of seeing a male doctor. One was summarily divorced on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine - the technicians were men.