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JEDDAH: Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif said yesterday that the national strategy to confront ideological deviation would set the base for an Arab strategy in this regard.

“All Arab countries face similar challenges. The Arab world needs a clear strategy to ensure intellectual security,” he said.

Prince Naif stressed that deviant thoughts promote crimes. “Therefor
MAKKAH: The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Makkah came to the aid of a 40-year-old woman who was being blackmailed by a young man.

The woman complained to the commission saying that the man threatened to post her pictures on the Internet unless she paid him large sums of money.

The commission set up a sting operation whereby the woman agreed to pay whatever
More than two thirds of responders to an online poll have called on other Gulf countries to follow the Bahrain government’s decision to end the sponsorship system for expatriates.

The survey carried out by Arabian Business of 400 people shows that 69 percent think the move is an “excellent idea" that should be matched by other countries across the Gulf.

A further 22 percent think the acti
Walaa Hawari | Arab News: The Saudi Journalists Association (SJA) is to write a letter to the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Communication and Information Technology Commission calling for a new set of rules regulating the issuing of website and online newspaper licenses.

The SJA will also demand that site owners be questioned should they publish content that creates social harm a
By Noha El-Hennawy | Dalia Mogahed, a veiled Egyptian American, will advise President Obama on prejudices and problems faced by Muslims. Many Arabs hope it's a step toward reversing stereotyping.

Reporting from Cairo -- Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.

Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and
CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt's lower house of parliament called on Tuesday for the nation's 250,000 pigs to be killed immediately because of fears over the spread of swine flu, state news agency MENA reported.

"The People's Assembly urged the government to immediately start culling pigs and not to relocate pig-breeding farms away from residential areas for fear of the spread of swine flu," MENA said.

Albawaba.com: Israel confirmed its first case of swine flu on Tuesday, Israel Radio reported. A 26-year-old man who recently returned from Mexico was diagnosed with the virus, after two days of quarantine in a local hospital located north of Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, no cases of swine flu were reported in the Arab world. The UAE is not affected by swine flu and there is no need to panic, said the U
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