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VerticalNews Applauds PMU`s Aramco Endowed Chair Professor Research

VerticalNews promotes news about various scientific streams including information technology viz software engineering.

(AL-KHOBAR Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - US based Journal of Technology and Science/VerticalNews lauded scientific research at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.

Saudi Arabia: Free Editor Ra`if Badawi Held Under Cybercrime Law

Badawi had been living away from his home for months to avoid a run-in with the police.

(SALEM) - A journalist in Saudi Arabia has been targeted by authorities and arrested and charged with violating a 2007 Cybercrime law.

Free speech is guaranteed by international law. However even the American politicians have no problem being allied with the Wahhabi Saudi government that heavily discriminates against women and Jewish people.

Hindus Welcome Saudi Arabia Move of Women Participation in Olympics

Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Qatar were reportedly the only three countries left who never sent women athletes to Olympic Games.

(RENO, NV.) - Hindus have welcomed Saudi Arabia’s reported historic announcement of allowing its women to compete in the Olympics for the first time.

Princess Maha Al-Sudairi Attempted To Avoid Paying Shangri-La Hotel In Paris $7.4 Million

Her global over-spending has been well-documented in the past.

(DUBLIN) - As moonlight flits go it was one of the more brazen. If you were trying to dodge paying a hotel bill of £5million you might just slip out of a side door and walk away quietly with some hand luggage.

However, when a Saudi princess tried it from a five-star establishment in Paris she was just a little bit too noticeable – what with her retinue of 60 servants in tow and a mountain of suitcases.

Saud and Susya

I have a dream that Barack Obama or his successor will finally show some backbone...

(BETHLEHEM) - The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Nayef Al-Saud died at age 78.

Nayef was the Interior Minister known for his "efficient" crackdown on dissent and thus was praised by US administrators for dealing with "terrorism" (the same administrators who tortured and "rendered" subjects to be tortured).

The Devilish Plan of Saudi-Bahrain Merger

Unquestionably, Bahrain's annexation to Saudi Arabia will pose a serious threat to the security and stability of the Persian Gulf.

(TEHRAN) - Members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council plan to annex the soil of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and form a greater Arab union.

The move attests to the fact that the tyrannical and merciless rulers of Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf are still obliviously living in the colonial era.

Baffle them With Bullets
Syria Claims No Involvement in Houla Massacre

"Women, children and old men were shot dead. This is not the hallmark of the heroic Syrian Army," - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jihad Makdesi

(SALEM) - Syria has denied involvement in the massacre at Houla.

Opposition activists say Assad's forces are behind the killings. It was a gruesome scene that has played out on YouTube.

Held Incommunicado and Tortured, Syrian Journalist Mazen Darwish Could Die

Darwish played a key role in providing daily information about the situation in Syria, at a time when almost all foreign journalists are banned from visiting the country.

(PARIS, France) - Mazen Darwish, the head of the Damascus-based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), and 15 of his colleagues were arrested by Air Force Intelligence officers during a raid on the centre on 16 February.

According to our sources, he has been badly tortured in detention.

The Lutfallah II Caper... Another Watergate Unfolding?

Follow the Money and follow the Weapons!
Graphics by Alex.

(TRIPOLI, Lebanon Al Manar) - What did Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Obama Administration, NATO, Israel, Turkey and UNIFIL know about the alleged arms shipment to “rebels” in Syria, and when did they know it?

It would be an incautious stretch to suggest any sort of parity between Watergate and the unfolding Lutfallah II arms shipment to Syria drama, that each day brings more revelations.

Saudi Arabia: Dancing to Israel`s tune

Recent WikiLeaks reports suggest that Saudi officials have been working closely with Mossad to step up pressure against Iran.

(TEHRAN) - The fact that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined the vicious triangle of the United States, Israel and Britain to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran and put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program is not a secret anymore.

The Saudi officials have openly stated their opposition to Iran's access to peaceful nuclear energy...