RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia may ban marriage for girls below 18, a government minister said after a case of an eight-year old girl marrying a man more than 40 years her senior drew international ...

RIYADH — The Ministry of Justice has announced that the number of marriage in the country decreased by 3 percent in the month of June in comparison to the same month last year, Al-Watan newspaper ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday called the case of an 8-year-old Saudi girl married to a man 50 years older a "clear and unacceptable violation of human rights," in a rare ...

This week the New York Times confirmed that the Biden administration is considering accepting a deal that Saudi Arabia has been dangling for some months: In return for Riyadh’s normalization of ...

The 27-year-old, studying for her master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington and hoping to someday become Saudi Arabia’s first female labor minister, is part of a growing number of Saudi ...

The Saudi daily ‘Okaz reported on August 25, 2009 that the father of a 10-year-old girl had removed her from her aunt’s home, where she had been hiding for 10 days, and brought her back to her husband ...

Islam's holy book, the Quran, warns Muslim men not to prevent their daughters, sisters or female relatives from getting married, or else they will encourage sexual relations outside marriage. But ...

PARIS -- "European Oil Companies Prepare to Invest in Saudi Arabia, as U.S. Troops Prepare to Leave." That imaginary headline summarizes two concurrent developments that are part of a subtle shift in ...

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