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...BARRED. SAUDI ARABIAN WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up female voting booths or to identify the vast majority of women who live without identification before the three-stage election begins in February...
...region of Georgia on the Black Sea, where he fought with a Moscow-backed secessionist movement. But when open war between Russia and Chechnya flared in 1994, Basayev quickly emerged as one of the breakaway republic's top rebel commanders. From early 1995, he worked closely with Khattab, a Saudi-born mujahid who had fought in Afghanistan and claimed a close relationship with Osama bin Laden. "Basayev was in charge, but Khattab brought in the money," says a former senior security officer in the guerrilla organization. Basayev and his men were "seriously good," says one Russian special-forces officer...
...million annual budget was vulnerable to fraud and abuse; in Brussels. She was hired in 2002 to clean up the E.U.'s accounting procedures but was suspended for disloyalty and breach of trust a few months later, after she complained about its lax accounting system. BARRED SAUDI WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in the capital, Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up voting booths for women or to identify the vast majority of females - who live without identification papers...
Depending on your point of view, Al-Jazeera is either a shining example of independent Arab media or an infamously irresponsible, biased news outlet. Whether it’s airing exposés on government corruption in Saudi Arabia, discussing political Islam on one of its talk shows or broadcasting graphic images of American corpses being dragged through Baghdad, Al-Jazeera doesn’t shrink from controversy. Biased or not, Al-Jazeera as a media outlet is certainly “free” in the fullest sense of the word. With its unhindered reporting style, Al-Jazeera...
...fear that Al-Jazeera is setting a bad example for Arab media by not adhering stringently to Western media practices. Arab leaders chafe under the bad press they get for denying their people a say in government—Al-Jazeera has single-handedly ruined relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And American government officials fear that the mix of pan-Arab nationalism, muted Islamism and outright anti-Western bias espoused by the station will only incite the Arab world to new heights of anti-Americanism...