Jamal Khashoggi

Women in Saudi Arabia will finally be allowed to apply for a passport and travel freely without having to secure permission from a male relative, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that gave men control over women. The new regulation, issued Wednesda…

Saudi Arabia is touting new relaxed laws for women -- including traveling without consent from their husband or male relative, equal pay to men and the ability to open and run independent businesses -- as part of "sweeping legal changes to enhance the role of…

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has made its first major, direct investment in a European tech company, participating in a $550 million funding round in Babylon Health. The round values Babylon Health at $2 billion, and will help fund the compa…

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record…

President Donald Trump’s inauguration chairman, Tom Barrack, lobbied the new administration to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia while, at the same time, making plans to team up with the Saudis to buy a company that would benefit from the polic…

Facebook has suspended more than 350 accounts and pages with about 1.4 million followers after it said people connected to the government of Saudi Arabia have run a network of fake accounts and pages to promote state propaganda and attack regional rivals. Th…

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was brutally murdered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, has yet to see an independent criminal investigation, Calls for the White House to release intelligence reports have also gone unanswered. Az…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin A stand at the Global Conference on Press Freedom in London honors murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi on July 10, 2019. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu A…

Votes to override Trump’s vetoes failed, 45-40, 45-39 and 46-41. A two-thirds vote was needed in each case. (File Photo) The Senate failed Monday in a bid to override a trio of vetoes issued by President Donald Trump, allowing the administration to move forw…

The United States Senate on Monday failed to override President Donald Trump's veto of legislation passed by Congress that would have blocked the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia. By a vote of 45-40, the Senate fell short of the two-thirds votes neede…