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Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S.

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Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S.

April 30th, 20180 By Dr. Rais Attamimi and Dr. Ali Alghail   Recently, some comparative analysis has been in the mainstream media about the way in which, to take one example, American citizens led by the teenagers protested the dangerous availability of assault weapons on the one hand, and citizens of the Middle East, Yemen in particular, when,...
Four Arab states stick by Qatar demands despite U.S. pressure to end rift World

Four Arab states stick by Qatar demands despite U.S. pressure to end rift

April 13th, 20180 CAIRO – Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA news agency said on Thursday, despite U.S. pressure for a swift end to the dispute. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates sent Doha a...
Fashionably late: Saudi Arabia hosts its first-ever fashion week World

Fashionably late: Saudi Arabia hosts its first-ever fashion week

April 13th, 20180 RIYADH – Fashionable women, dark-haired Saudis and blonde Eastern Europeans alike, fill the gold-trimmed halls of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, marking the start of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever fashion week. Models and makeup artists preparing for the inaugural Saudi episode of Arab Fashion Week said they were surprised the event...
Spain signs $2.2 billion deal to sell warships to Saudi Arabia World

Spain signs $2.2 billion deal to sell warships to Saudi Arabia

April 13th, 20180 MADRID — On Thursday, Spain signed a framework deal to sell Saudi Arabia warships worth around $2.2 billion, a Spanish Defense Ministry source said. Under the agreement, Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia will sell five small warships, Spain's army will train Saudi military personnel and contractors will build a naval...
Saudi crown prince: Israelis have right to their own land World

Saudi crown prince: Israelis have right to their own land

April 3rd, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of what they consider their...
Expanding the 'our' in the march for our lives Opinions

Expanding the ‘our’ in the march for our lives

March 30th, 20180 By Mary Turfah   On March 24, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington D.C., New York, Detroit and elsewhere to protest gun violence—or at least part of it. The Parkland school shooting victims — around whose misfortune these protests arose— have demonstrated their readiness to use their...
Saudi Arabia must face U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks U.S.A

Saudi Arabia must face U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks

March 29th, 20180 NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Saudi Arabia’s bid to dismiss lawsuits claiming that it helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and should pay billions of dollars in damages to victims. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said the plaintiffs’ allegations “narrowly articulate a reasonable basis”...
Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war World

Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war

March 26th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles....
Macron pressured to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE World

Macron pressured to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE

March 23rd, 20180 PARIS — Two rights groups have given the French government two months to halt weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates or face legal action, adding to pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to scale back support of a Riyadh-led offensive in Yemen. The action comes as some European states, notably Germany, have...
Trump's red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money! U.S.A

Trump’s red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money!

March 23rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump gave a warm welcome to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday and credited U.S. defense sales to the Saudis with boosting American jobs, even as Riyadh's involvement in Yemen's civil war faced criticism. In the Oval Office, Trump and the crown prince praised the strength of U.S.-Saudi...
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French judge issues arrest warrant for daughter of Saudi king

PARIS — A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz in relation to an attack by her bodyguard against a worker in her Parisian flat, a source close to the investigation said. Princess Hassa bint Salman is the sister of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is...
Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen World

Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen's armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Riyadh's arch-foe Iran, an...
Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does World

Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom's crown prince said in remarks released on Thursday, raising the prospect of a nuclear arms race in a region already riven with conflict. "Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a...
Netanyahu warns U.S. lawmakers about Saudi nuclear power deal World

Netanyahu warns U.S. lawmakers about Saudi nuclear power deal

March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and Saudi negotiators have yet to reach a deal to allow American companies to build nuclear power reactors in the kingdom, but the idea is already getting pushback from Israeli Prime Minister and Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday, Netanyahu, during a closed door meeting with the Senate Foreign...
U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge World

U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge

February 16th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is considering a British proposal to praise Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for pledging nearly $1 billion to ease Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, even as U.N. experts accuse a Saudi-led military coalition of using “the threat of starvation as an instrument of war” in...
Saudi Arabia building world's tallest tower World

Saudi Arabia building world’s tallest tower

February 9th, 20180 JEDDAH — Construction of the world's tallest skyscraper in Jeddah is going ahead, the head of the consortium behind the $1.5 billion project said, despite the detention of some businessmen backing the plan in Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption. His comments were a sign that the government is trying to prevent the purge from...
Saudi women-only auto show opens in Jeddah World

Saudi women-only auto show opens in Jeddah

January 12th, 20180 JEDDAH — Women flocked to Le Mall on Thursday to check out the kingdom's first car exhibition aimed at women, a few months after Saudi Arabia granted them the right to drive. Pink, orange and yellow balloons hung in the mall's showroom as women posed for photos and selfies in front of the cars. One woman in the driver's seat fixed...
Year-in review: The top local, national and international stories of 2017 Local

Year-in review: The top local, national and international stories of 2017

January 5th, 20180 Here's our 2017 year-in-review of the most important news and developments as reported by The Arab American News locally, nationally and internationally. Community and local 1. Former Dearborn City Clerk Kathy Buda was convicted on embezzlement charges, after clerk office employees reported suspicions she was stealing cash from fees...
Red Cross: Suspected cholera cases in Yemen hit 1 million World

Red Cross: Suspected cholera cases in Yemen hit 1 million

December 22nd, 20170 DUBAI/GENEVA — Yemen's cholera epidemic has reached one million suspected cases, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday, with war leaving more than 80 percent of the population short of food, fuel, clean water and access to healthcare. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, is embroiled in a proxy...
Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile fired toward Riyadh, no reported casualties World

Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile fired toward Riyadh, no reported casualties

December 19th, 20170 RIYADH — Saudi air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said, the latest attack by a Yemeni group that could escalate a proxy war between the kingdom and regional rival Tehran. There was no immediate report of casualties or damages. The Iran-aligned Houthi...
World rejects Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital World

World rejects Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital

December 8th, 20170 On Wednesday, Arabs and Muslims across the Middle East condemned the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital as an incendiary move in a volatile region and Palestinians said Washington was abandoning its leading role as a peace mediator. The European Union and United Nations also voiced alarm at President Trump's decision to...
Senior Saudi Prince Miteb freed in $1 billion settlement agreement World

Senior Saudi Prince Miteb freed in $1 billion settlement agreement

December 2nd, 20170 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia freed influential Prince Miteb bin Abdullah on Tuesday after agreeing to pay more than $1 billion to settle corruption allegations against him, a Saudi official said. Miteb was detained more than three weeks ago in a sweeping anti-corruption purge of the kingdom's elite. The former National Guard chief was...
Regardless of what happens in Geneva, Assad will be the winner World

Regardless of what happens in Geneva, Assad will be the winner

December 2nd, 20170 GENEVA — The Syrian government delegation arrived in Geneva on Wednesday to participate in another round of U.N.-sponsored peace talks to bring an end to the Syrian Civil War, now in its seventh year. All the previous rounds of U.N.-backed peace talks have failed to reach a peace deal, and have often been seriously hindered by the...
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