Saudi voters elected 20 women for local government seats, according to results released on Sunday, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s history.
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Initial Results Show 19 Saudi Women Elected for First Time
Sikh Soldier Allowed to Keep Beard in Rare Army Exception
For the first time in decades, the military has granted a religious accommodation to allow an active-duty combat soldier to keep his beard, at least for now.
Greece’s refugee children: In a strange city in a foreign land, Amina is ill. Her bed is a blanket on the concrete floor
A stadium in Athens is full of the displaced – and a team of doctors is working flat out to ease their plight
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Amina is eight years old and running a fever. In her thinly padded pink anorak, hood pulled up over her curls and pallid face, she watches listlessly from the couch as her parents listen carefully to the doctor’s instructions over her medication.
In another place, in another city, at another time, perhaps, this sick child would be taken home to be tucked up in bed with hot drinks. But Amina has no home any more and tonight her bed is a grey donated blanket on the concrete floor of the tae kwon do stadium in Athens. Once this building was the pride of Greece’s 2004 Olympics; this weekend it is a squalid, cold place full of desperate people.
David Cameron’s EU renegotiation chances
Chris Riddell on the prime minister’s strategy for the country’s future in the union
Now, Google CEO Sundar Pichai comes out in support of Muslims in US
India-born Google head Sundar Pichai is the latest technology industry CEO to come out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent anti-Muslim tirade. Earlier this week, Trump issued a advocating ban on all new immigration of Muslims to the US.
Unity government in Libya poised to proceed
Libya’s opposing parties aim to form a unity government at a meeting in Rome. The conference will also aim to mobilize international aid for the country. Time is short, as “IS” is growing stronger in Libya.
Dozens arrested during Constitution Day protests in Russia
More than 30 activists have been detained after defying a protest ban and holding ‘individual’ rallies against rights abuses. Among those held was the leader of Russia’s leading liberal party.
Saudi Arabia holds first ever election open to women
Voting began on Saturday in Saudi Arabia’s first elections open to female voters and candidates, a tentative step towards easing restrictions that are among the world’s tightest on women.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels agree to ceasefire starting December 14
A ceasefire in Yemen’s civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said on Saturday.
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