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Gulf WagesSaudi women employees paid ‘almost half as men’
The disparity in wages between men and women in the Gulf region is the largest in Saudi Arabia, Makkah daily reported. According to statistics published by the World Economic Forum for 2014, Saudi women earn on average only 56 percent of the wages earned by men.
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U.S.-IsraelWhy the Supreme Court’s ‘born in Jerusalem’ case is such a tinderbox
Congress doesn’t agree with [the White House's] posture, and in 2002 it passed a law that, among other things, allows Jerusalem-born applicants for U.S. passports to record their place of birth as “Israel” if they so request. President Bush signed that law but attached a signing statement declining to enforce the passport provision because it “impermissibly interferes with the President’s authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs.” Barack Obama similarly contends that the provision is unconstitutional. The "Zivotofsky vs. Kerry" case invokes this 2002 passport law and has returned a thorny debate over executive power and foreign policy to the highest court in the land.
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Female EntrepreneursBuilding bridges between Middle East, Silicon Valley
The program, run by the Institute for International Education's Center for Women's Leadership Initiatives in San Francisco, pairs each participant with two successful American women — a professional mentor and a cultural mentor — for five weeks of exchange and networking in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. Those exchanges are a key component of a program that aims to empower young women in a region where they still face many obstacles.
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Dubai Theme ParksWatch out Orlando, Dubai wants to be the world’s biggest theme park destination
While Dubai is currently home to a handful of theme parks -- most notably Wild Wadi and Atlantis The Palm's Aquaventure -- the city has yet to establish much of a track record in the industry. Many projects announced prior to the 2008 crash were assigned to the scrap heap afterwards. "In our industry, there tends to be more announcements of theme parks than those actually built," warns Gerner. "It's a quandary for analysts like myself. Typically we look at new projects as a share of the existing market, so it's very hard to evaluate the potential for going into somewhere entirely new."
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U.S.-Iran Hostage AftermathOpinion: Thirty-five years after Iranian hostage crisis, the aftershocks remain
Carter decided to admit the shah under heavy pressure from three of the shah’s most powerful American allies: David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and John McCloy. He rejected pleas from American diplomats in Tehran, who sent him a cable warning that admitting the shah “would almost certainly meet with immediate and violent reaction.” When those diplomats were told that their appeal had been ignored, one of them later recalled, “faces literally went white.” Eerily, Carter himself seemed to have some idea of what might lie ahead. At one White House meeting, he rhetorically asked his aides, “What are you guys going to advise me to do if they overrun our embassy and take our people hostage?”
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Saudi CabinetInformation Minister Khoja relieved
Culture and Information Minister Abdulaziz bin Mohiuddin Khoja was relieved from his post on Wednesday upon his request, the Saudi Press Agency said. Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar was assigned to take Khoja's job in a concurrent capacity, SPA said, quoting a Royal Decree.
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Israel-PalestineJerusalem car attack injures 14, driver shot dead
A vehicle hit several Israeli settlers near occupied East Jerusalem Wednesday, Israeli media said, a day after a Palestinian was run over by an Israeli settler in the West Bank. According to Israel’s Haaretz the man driving the vehicle was shot and killed. The incident comes two weeks after Palestinian Abdul-Rahman Shaludi rammed his car into Israeli settlers, injuring six and killing one. Shaludi was also shot dead. Meanwhile, an Israeli settler driving through the occupied West Bank city of Beit Jala hit a Palestinian with his car on Tuesday, witnesses told Ma'an.
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OmanAiling Sultan Qaboos tells Omanis he will miss birthday celebrations
Since taking power in 1970, Qaboos has transformed the small oil exporter from a poverty-stricken backwater torn by dissent into a prosperous Western-allied state, earning a reputation as a mediator seeking to ease periodic tensions between the Gulf Arab states and neighboring non-Arab Iran. In a video message broadcast on state television, a frail-looking Qaboos offered greetings to Omanis on the occasion of his birthday, which falls on Nov. 18 and is celebrated in Oman as a national day.
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GuantanamoGuantánamo review board releases one Saudi but another must stay inside
A Saudi inmate with links to al-Qaida will remain at the Guantánamo Bay prison and a second Saudi man has been cleared for transfer home, a US national security panel said on Monday.
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U.S.-AfghanistanMajor U.S. Army division ends operations in Afghanistan 13 years after it arrived
In the fall of 2001, the 10th Mountain Division was the first major army unit to arrive in Afghanistan in support of American Special Forces who helped topple the Taliban government. Since then, about 177 soldiers from the division have been killed while serving in the country. “We were the first division here, and I think it’s fitting we’d be the last,” in a combat role, said Maj. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the division’s commander, after a ceremony marking the division’s departure from rugged eastern Afghanistan.
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