Obama Administration has signed a deal to sell Saudi Arabia nearly 30 billion dollars in fighter jets.NPR Michelle Kelemen reports it designs to listen part to send signal to Iran now US troops are out of Iraq The white house says US is selling Saudi

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In Riyadh and in Jeddah, though not in a few more liberal places such as Qatif, the clericswho always opposed female participation in the electionshave stopped the new female local councillors from sitting in the council chambers with men. 在利雅得

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AS IT IS 2016-06-21 Iran Claims It Has Stopped a Major Terrorist Attack 伊朗声称破获一宗恐怖袭击事件 Iranian state media say intelligence officials have stopped a terrorist plot in the country. The reports say it was one of the biggest

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Donald Trumps first foreign trip as U.S. president will not be in neighboring Canada or Mexico like all other American presidents since Ronald Reagan. Trump will go first to Saudi Arabia, where he will be welcomed by King Salman. The Saudi leader is

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush returned this week from an eight-day trip to the Middle East. It was his most extensive travel there in his seven years as president, with one year left in office. President Bush and Saudi K

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AS IT IS 2015-09-25 More than 700 Crushed to Death Near Mecca 麦加踩踏事故逾700人遇难 More than 700 people were crushed to death Thursday near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in a stampede. More than 800 others were injured. The victims were part of t

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AS IT IS 2016-01-05 Saudi Arabia Ends Diplomatic Ties With Iran 阿拉伯结束与伊朗的外交关系 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan have cut off diplomatic relations with Iran. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed a well-known Shiite Muslim leader.

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AS IT IS 2016-04-15 Religious Leader Says Saudi Women Should Not Drive 宗教领袖称沙特妇女不应该开车 Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that does not allow women to drive. And it is likely to stay that way, if the countrys top

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公关部主任Janet Liu召集下属开会,询问中东代表团的活动安排。 Janet Liu: Good morning, Silvia. Good morning, Pete. How is my public relations team doing today? Silvia Kranson: Morning, Ms. Liu. Pete Chan: Very well, thank you.

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BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The US Secretary of State John Kerry has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Washington will suspend all contact with Moscow over Syria if Russia does not take immediate action to end the assault on Aleppo. I

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US Could by 2017 Be World's Biggest Oil Producer The International Energy Agency says that by 2017 the United States is likely to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest oil producer. The Paris-based energy agency said Monday in its annual forec

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I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta, here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. There has been another deadly explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. 4 Lebanese bystanders were killed. U.S. and Lebanese officials say the target was a US e

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克里否认美国与沙特阿拉伯之间关系紧张 RIYADH, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry denied on Monday reports of tensions between the United States and Saudi Arabia amid current crises in the region, such as the Syrian

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Saudi Arabia and the United States 沙特跟老美 Awkward relations 别扭扭 The American president and the Saudi king will have an unusually edgy meeting 美国总统与沙特国王将展开一次绝无仅有的紧张会谈 BARACK OBAMA may recall

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VOA新闻专有名词集合(人名、地名) 5 Mike O'Brien 英国外交部长 Mikle Spike Milan Mindanao Moammar Gadhafi 利比亚总统卡扎菲 Mogadishu the capital of Somali Mohammad Fahim (Afghan Defense Minister) Mohammad Khatami (th

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Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

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The son of the heir to the Saudi Arabian throne has personally put the royal seal of approval on the attacks against ISIS, by taking part in bombing runs. 沙特王储之子参与了对ISIS的轰炸,以个人身份表示了沙特王室对此的支持

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, for more on whether the U.S. has struck the right balance between its interests and concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights record, I'm joined by Gary Sick. He's a veteran of the White House National Security Council staff durin

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President Barack Obama said Saturday that the deal to get Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons does more than anyone has done before to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. In his weekly Saturday address, Obama said Iran couldn not cheat on

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HARI SREENIVASAN: We turn now to the ongoing civil war in Yemen, where the civilian death toll grew over the weekend. More than 140 people died after what witnesses say was an airstrike on a funeral on Saturday in the capital city of Sanaa. The Saudi

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