The WTA finals host revealed its commitment to women’s rights by jailing a female activist If a record of sexual apartheid is not the ideal look for a nation that must still, occasionally, pl...
There are two main stumbling blocks to ridding boxing of PEDs: motivation and cost. Saudi Arabian power broker Turki Alalshikh is uniquely situated to surmount these obstacles It’s a matter o...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/04/boxing-drugs-vada-saudi-arabia-turki-alalshikh
Riyadh seeks more modest agreement with Washington in absence of Gaza ceasefire and Netanyahu resistance to Palestinian state The US and Saudi Arabia have drafted a set of agreements on securi...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/saudi-us-biden-deal-israel
Manahel al-Otaibi, who promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws A young women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia was secretly sentenced to 11 years in p...
Current proposed deal includes 40-day ceasefire and release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages, says David Cameron Biden and Netanyahu speak amid pressure over...
Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’ and despite claims of reform, kafala laws persist, allowing bosses to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is their testimony,...
What next for the Middle East? Plus: Britain and the new ‘nanny state’ • GET THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME ADDRESS The tit for tat strikes by Israel and Iran last week may n...
Government auditors must look into claims of complicity in corruption on arms deals with UK, says Labour peer Alleged Ministry of Defence complicity in the “national scandal” of bribery on ...
It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remain The second least surprising piece of recent news – the first bein...
Tit-for-tat attacks present Sunni monarchies with complicated choices over region’s future Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel had, by the end of this week, become one of the most int...
My sister Loujain has been placed under a travel ban and lives in constant fear of arrest. She is one of many Lina al-Hathloul is head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST for Human Rights Saudi...
Abderrazak Hamdallah struck at end of Saudi Super Cup final SAFF says it is ‘shocked with the disgraceful scenes’ The whipping of a player by a spectator after the Saudi Arabian Super Cup ...
Heavy rain forecast in Saudi Arabia and UAE as France and Spain cool down after weekend of high temperatures Intense thunderstorms are forecast across parts of the Gulf on Monday and Tuesday, b...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/15/weather-tracker-gulf-braced-for-thunderstorms
Human rights campaigner who founded the charity Redress following his unlawful imprisonment and torture in Saudi Arabia Questions were asked in the House of Commons after Keith Carmichael disap...
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/12/keith-carmichael-obituary
Crown prince’s pet project was sold as a 105-mile-long city of the future, but finances may have led to a rethink It was billed as a glass-walled city of the future, an ambitious centrepiece ...
The Gulf state is the new chair of a UN women’s commission. That reflects a bigger issue as governments attack or fail to prioritise gender equality Next year will mark the 30th anniversary o...
Kingdom chosen to chair Commission on Status of Women after unopposed bid, to dismay of human rights groups Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to pr...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission
Inquiry by National Audit Office into British-Saudi arms contract reveals evidence of MoD deception over bribery allegations A suppressed official report on alleged corruption in a giant Britis...
Fifa and the presumptive hosts face significant challenges over human rights, worker protections and the scale of construction Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. We know this, despite t...
As the Gulf kingdom bids to host a World Cup that will see its reliance on cheap foreign labour soar, planeloads of men already return daily to Dhaka, gaunt, dazed and broke Among the joyful fa...