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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Saudi King Abdullah agreed on the need to restart Middle East peace talks and took a firm stance on Iran, a French official said on Wednesday. In three hours of "deep" talks late Tuesday at Abdullah's Janadiriyah desert farm, north of Riyadh, the leaders "were agreed on the need for rapid steps to relaunch the peace process," an official of the French presidency told AFP. King Abdullah is "on the same wavelength" as France on the need to relaunch the... Read Full Story
Jordan is experiencing a state visit from Turkey this week. On Tuesday, President Abdullah Gul was welcomed by King Abdullah II and Queen Rania to Amman.
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The main purpose of Gul’s visit is to launch a free trade deal with the Hashemite Kingdom, something both countries have been working on since 2005. The Prime Ministers of Jordan and Turkey agreed the deal would be launched before 2009 was up.
That deal came true not long after the welcoming ceremony at the royal... Read Full Story
This week, Jordan’s King Abdullah II dissolved the lower half of Parliament, ordered his government to amend an unpopular election law and told them to prepare for general elections two years early.
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“We instruct the government to immediately start planning for parliamentary elections, which should be transparent and fair, reflecting Jordan’s reform drive,” the King told Prime Minister Nader Dahabi in a letter, a palace statement said.
“We instruct you to... Read Full Story
A group of veteran Saudi activists rushed to launch a new political and human rights association on Monday, saying the government is already trying to stifle the move. Eleven activists sent a declaration about the creation of the Association for Civil and Political Rights to Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday night even though Saudi security officials had begun questioning potential signatories, Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder and a politics professor, told AFP. "The idea is to form a society to... Read Full Story
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is expected in Syria on Wednesday in a further sign of warming ties between the two Arab states, a newspaper close to the government reported. It will be the monarch's first visit to Syria since he acceded to the throne in 2005. "King Abdullah will arrive in Syria this afternoon for a two-day official visit, at the head of an important delegation," the Al-Watan daily reported. On Monday the royal court in an announcement carried by the official Saudi news agency... Read Full Story
A group of veteran Saudi activists launched a new political and human rights association on Monday while saying the government is already trying to stifle the move. Eleven activists sent a declaration about the creation of the Association for Civil and Political Rights to Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday night even though Saudi security officials had begun questioning potential signatories, Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder and a politics professor, told AFP. "The idea is to form a society to... Read Full Story
Saudi Arabia launched a new hi-tech, co-ed university on the Red Sea coast on Wednesday, aiming to catapult into vanguard global technological research and break through religious barriers to women's opportunities. King Abdullah inaugurated the multi-billion dollar King Abdullah Uinversity for Science of and Technology (KAUST), saying it was a dream he had had for 25 years. The ceremony was attended by numerous foreign leaders, including Britain's Prince Andrew, King Abdullah II of Jordan... Read Full Story
The Saudi king dismissed a prominent hard-line cleric who criticized a university he recently launched for allowing men and women to take classes together. King Abdullah issued a royal decree relieving Sheik Saad bin Naser al-Shethri from his duties on the powerful government-sanctioned Council of Senior Islamic Scholars, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. The decree issued Sunday did not provide a reason for al-Shethri's dismissal, but the cleric was quoted by local media in late... Read Full Story
A prominent Muslim cleric has criticized a new Saudi university launched by King Abdullah for allowing men and women to take classes together. Sheik Saad Bin Naser al-Sheshri, who is a member of the powerful government-sanctioned Supreme Committee of (Islamic) Scholars, was quoted Wednesday in the Al-Watan daily as demanding an end to coed classes at the newly opened King Abdullah Science and Technology University. "Mixing is a great sin and a great evil," al-Sheshri was quoted as saying... Read Full Story
Saudi Arabia was on Wednesday to launch a new hi-tech mixed-sex university on the Red Sea coast aimed at catapulting the kingdom into the forefront of global technological research. Jammed with equipment most scientists can only dream of and sporting one of the world's fastest supercomputers, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) was to be officially unveiled late afternoon by King Abdullah with an audience of top world scientists and a handful of leaders. KAUST with... Read Full Story
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