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Reshma Begum, the 19-year-old seamstress who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building.

Globe Trot: Factory collapse survivor didn't dare dream of rescue

International | The seamstress who survived for 17 days buried inside the Bangladesh garment factory collapse told the BBC: “Even in my wildest dreams I did not imagine I would come out alive.” The surprise candidacy of…

A Saudi woman attends a traditional Arda dance, or War dance, during the Janadriyah Festival of Heritage and Culture.

Saudi Christian convert’s helpers beaten and jailed

Religious Liberty |  Saudi Arabian officials have sentenced two men to flogging and prison for helping a women convert to Christianity and escape the country. The uproar started…

A man walks through a room in the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans.

Globe Trot: The State Department has some explaining to do

International |  The second-highest serving officer at the U.S. mission in Libya is set to testify today in Congress against the White House version of events surrounding the…

A Muslim pilgrim is wheeled out of the Grand mosque after the noon prayer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Globe Trot: Saudi Arabia mulls paralysis as criminal punishment

International |  April is the Month of Microfinance and today is the day every gift to Five Talents, one of many groups majoring in microfinance…

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: A satellite image of an airstrip deep in the Saudi Arabia desert that may be a secret U.S. drone base.
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Droning on

Middle East |  Like other parts of the Middle East, the U.S.-Saudi alliance needs its own democracy movement

Sherry Rehman talks to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan

Globe Trot: Secret drones, tiny drones, history in Mali, and ‘hell’ in Syria

International |  Today  The Washington Post  admits that it and other news organizations have known for a year that the United States was operating a drone…

Screen grab of tunnel collapse from highway operator video

Globe Trot 12.03

International |  A Japanese tunnel collapse on Sunday killed nine and trapped many motorists. A Midwest perspective on the Middle East—and other challenges President…

Saudi children react during a show before a religious sermon in Riyadh.

Meanwhile, back in Riyadh

Terrorism |  Hopes that we’d earned a little breathing space after the election were quickly dashed with what might be called, for convenience, the Petraeus Affair. With…

Manssor Arbabsiar

Man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador

Terror |  NEW YORK (AP)—A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, agreeing to hire what he…

Failing the test
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Failing the test

Saudi Arabia |  Jihadist textbooks live on in Saudi-supported Islamic schools

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Wrist slap

Saudi Arabia |  The Bush administration grants diplomatic waivers to its kingpin Arab ally while evidence of religious oppression grows

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Funded by Fahd

Saudi Arabia |  An infamous playboy leaves a legacy of Islamic extremism

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