Saudi Arabia eases rules for women in hotels
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Saudi authorities, breaking with religious codes that require women to be accompanied by a male guardian, have decided to allow women to stay in hotels on their own, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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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.
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One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast because she didn't want to risk a referral to a male doctor. Another was divorced by her husband on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine because the technicians were men.
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Saudi Arabia's bearded religious police, who have been known to force men to cut their hair, are being re-trained to handle a potential influx of non-Muslim tourists, a government official said on Sunday.
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Oil prices eased on Monday as top world exporter Saudi Arabia slashed prices for its crude sales to the United States and Europe in an effort to shift the large volumes it is offering to cool world markets.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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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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Malaysia's only state run by the Islamic opposition party will get stricter about enforcing separate lines for men and women at supermarkets, an official said Tuesday.
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A woman is elected to the board of a major Saudi bank, becoming the first female in the kingdom to occupy such a position.
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OPEC's president and oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia stepped back from direct calls to slash output yesterday, the eve of the group's year-end meeting, in potential good news for consumers worldwide.
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[World News]: London, Nov 2 : Japanese men no longer have to go searching for that perfect line to make women go weak in the knees.
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The United Nations imposed sanctions Thursday on two Saudi activists accused of ties to al-Qaida and the leader of a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. It also dropped the punitive measures against a Jordanian who claims he was Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.
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Despite a campaign urging residents to register before Thursday's deadline, Saudi men &#151; women are barred from voting &#151; have shown little enthusiasm for the first nationwide elections in a kingdom long regarded as autocratic, secretive and resistant to reform.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Saudi Arabia on a brief trip which Egyptian officials said was aimed at easing strained ties between Riyadh and Libya over an alleged plot by Tripoli to kill the kingdom's de facto leader.
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Marriott International Inc. said Thursday it will eliminate trans fats from the cooking oil used by its restaurants at more than 2,300 hotels in the United States and Canada.
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Measures aimed at tearing down barriers to women succeeding in the workplace are to be unveiled.
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Sale of red roses and red gifts has been banned by Saudi Arabia's religious police in the run-up to Valentine's Day, reports a local newspaper