Jordan’s King Abdullah II, under pressure to meet popular demands for political changes, is pushing to hold crucial early elections before the end of 2012 but his opponents say his reforms do not go far enough. A week after appointing a new government to replace one he deemed too slow to act on reforms…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Bahrain to take further steps to tackle human rights issues in talks here with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the pair discussed Manama’s efforts to implement the recommendations…
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the second biggest shareholder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, has revealed his frustration with the fallout from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
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Kuwait’s Information Minister, Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, announced last week that Kuwait plans to pass new laws regulating the use of social networking sites such as Twitter in order to “safeguard the cohesiveness of the population and society.” The Information Minister’…
King Abdullah ordered on Friday the reopening of the Saudi mission in Egypt after it was shut last week in the wake of angry protests, defusing a rare crisis between the two Arab heavyweights. The SPA state news agency, quoting an unnamed official, said the king “instructed the kingdom’s ambassador…
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