Saudi apathy mars poll interest
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Only about a quarter of voters in the Saudi capital Riyadh register for the first elections in 40 years, Saudi media says.
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RIYADH: The Saudi press took a swipe Thursday at Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi over Tripoli&#39;s alleged role in a plot to assassinate the kingdom&#39;s crown prince as the Arab League
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Their president's approval ratings are at historic lows. The war in Iraq is grinding down their political prospects, and their party is showing deep divisions on issues such as education and immigration.
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Saudi pro-reform activists say they are seeking signatures online to back their campaign for free elections.
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Dozens of losing candidates in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections complained Saturday that the winners in the capital, Riyadh, unfairly used the endorsement of influential Islamic leaders to secure victory.
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Saudi men voted in a municipal election  in the capital Riyadh Thursday, the first stage in an  unprecedented nationwide vote as the absolute monarchy inches  toward reform.
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Much the way their predecessors warred over Sino-US ties in past elections, US President George W. Bush and Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry are trading blows over Saudi Arabia.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy yesterday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices, and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.
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Saudi Arabia said there was no truth in an article by a Saudi security adviser suggesting the world's top oil exporter would back Iraq's Muslim Sunnis in the event of a wider sectarian conflict.
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Arab viewers, many suspicious of U.S. intentions in their region, watched the U.S. presidential debate with wariness &#151; some dismissing it as a trivial "American show" and others expressing dismay that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was nearly ignored.
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If Thursdayâs protests go ahead, they may test how much support the Movement for Islamic Reform has gathered in Saudi Arabia since Fagih began using radio, satellite TV and the Internet.
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The Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, who have made great strides in recent years, are worried that those gains will be rolled back as sectarian tensions rise across the region.
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Saudi Arabia remains tight-lipped over 10 terror funding arrests, but relatives say the men are pro-reform activists.
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WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to take substantial steps to promote religious tolerance, despite assurances from the Bush administration that the kingdom has made progress on reform, a US watchdog group said yesterday. A report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom called for new congressional scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's progress in implementing religious reform policies announced in ...
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WASHINGTON Arabs are divided on the American elections between a skeptical majority that sees no difference between George W. Bush and John Kerry and a hopeful minority that believes Kerry could narrow the gap between the Muslim world and the West.
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Far fewer men than expected have registered to vote in next year's Saudi municipal elections, although the vote offers the first chance to go to the polls in four decades.
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Saudi Arabia has launched a series of radio advertisements in the US aimed at restoring the kingdom&#39;s battered public image there.