Top Saudi Clerics Warn Against Twitter Use

Use Twitter and your soul is damned, according to Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the senior religious authority in Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi who uses the popular microblogging service “has lost this world and his afterlife,” the prominent cleric said. (more…)

Hezbollah MP: Iran-Saudi Arabia behind vote law deadlock

Hezbollah’s MP Kamel al-Rifai blamed the lack of Saudi-Iranian understanding for Lebanon’s inability to form a government and for the current deadlock over reaching an agreement between the rival politicians on an electoral law for the upcoming elections, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa reported on Sunday.
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Saudi woman scales Everest for first time

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaledMount Everest from Nepal’s side of the mountain.

Tilak Padney of Nepal’s Mountaineering Department says 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese (more…)

2 more die of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia

Two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia, the deputy health minister for public health said on Sunday. (more…)

A Lebanese gets 6 year jail term, 300 lashes for role in converting a Saudi woman to Christianity

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Lebanese man to six years in jail and 300 lashes for his role in helping a Saudi woman flee the country and convert to Christianity. (more…)

Jumblatt meets Hariri during a surprise visit to Saudi Arabia

Former Lebanese Prime Minister and Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri met with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah to discuss the formation of a government and other related issues (more…)

Sports will now be allowed in some Saudi girls schools

Saudi Arabian girls will be allowed to play sports in private schools for the first time, according to a decision announced on Saturday, the latest in a series of incremental changes aimed at slowly increasing women’s rights in the ultraconservative kingdom. (more…)

Lebanon returned to Tunisia Bin Ali’s $28.8 million

The office of Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said Thursday that Lebanon has returned to Tunisia 28.8 million dollars stashed away there by the family of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Bin Ali was overthrown in January 2011 by the Tunisian people in their uprising against his dictatorship regime. (more…)

Who nominated Salam, Jumblatt or March 14 ?

During an interview last Thursday with LBCI on Kalam elNas program, Progressive Socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblatt took credit for the nomination of MP Tamam Salam as the next Lebanese Prime Minister, but Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea disputed Jumblatt’s claim .

“March 14 is the party that named Salam,” Geagea stated in an interview on MTV on Monday. (more…)

Salam supports Syria’s revolution, and Lebanon neutrality

In his first interview as the Lebanese PM designate Tammam Salam declared his support for the Syrian people’s revolution but stressed that he wants to shield Lebanon from regional events, by enforcing a policy of dissociation and neutrality. (more…)