Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
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Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks with King Abdullah on the Middle East.
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BEIRUT -- Iran's president heads to Saudi Arabia tomorrow for discussions with King Abdullah, an indication that weeks of talks between their envoys on simmering conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon have made some headway.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Saudi Arabia on a brief trip which Egyptian officials said was aimed at easing strained ties between Riyadh and Libya over an alleged plot by Tripoli to kill the kingdom's de facto leader.
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The head of Saudi Arabia's stock market regulator on Thursday said his agency was open to ideas mooted by western institutions to allow foreign investors to tap into the Middle East's largest bourse.
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Osama bin Laden&#39;s latest message, his first directed specifically at Saudis in years, has been widely seen as an attempt to show he is still a player in his homeland
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DAMMAM: His Majesty King Hamad yesterday held talks with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.They reviewed historic ties and expressed satisfaction with them, reiterating the strength of these relations.
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France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.
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International Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair met Saudi Arabia&#39;s King Abdullah on Monday on the second leg of a regional tour ahead of a US-sponsored peace conference later this year.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas visited Saudi Arabia on Monday at time when many in the region are hopeful that Israelis and Arabs can make a new start on peace in the wake of Yasser Arafat's death.
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Saudi Arabia sought to regain some control of oil markets Tuesday, promising to make available 800,000 barrels a day of new oil by the end of the month and to keep pumping crude vigorously.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Monday accused Britain of not taking terrorism seriously enough, hours before arriving in London for a controversial state visit.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- When university professor Khalid al-Dakhil was growing up, clergymen had a say in everything.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Saturday in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah, apparently seeking the Sunni royal family's influence and tribal connections to calm Iraq after an especially violent week.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Even as Saudi Arabia struggles internally with violent extremists and externally with its image as the country that produced most of the attackers of Sept. 11, 2001, the desert kingdom's rulers are moving on multiple fronts to modernize and moderate their nation.
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Over the last year, Saudi Arabia has quietly endorsed a shift in strategy of pushing for oil prices higher than those of the last two decades.
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France and Jordan want to work &quot;hand-in-hand&quot; to help resolve crises in the Middle East, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday following talks with King Abdullah II.