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Saudi Arabia to participate in Miss Universe pageant for the first time
becoming the first woman from the Gulf region to do so. The Miss Universe pageant this year will be held in Mexico, and will ...
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Miss Universe brands reports of Saudi Arabia's participation 'false and misleading'
Miss Woman Saudi Arabia and Miss Europe Saudi Arabia. While Egypt and Lebanon are represented at the contest, Bahrain is the only country in the GCC to participate in Miss Universe. More than 100 ...
Saudi authorities free student sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say
A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on ...
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Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years in jail for Twitter postings
A woman in Saudi Arabia was handed down a 45-year jail sentence Tuesday after being found guilty of posting messages on social media “to tear [the country's] social fabric,” it was reported.
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The laws on what women can – and can't – do in Saudi Arabia
After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.