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Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called for an investigation into who shot dead one of his supporters in the May Day protest in Caracas on Monday. Perversely, this is a hopeful sign in this struggling society. Though there were earlier slayings of opposition protesters, Guaidó’s demand for an enquiry into this latest death shows that this is a dangerous confrontation that has yet to tip over into the levels of violence, when deaths on either side, no longer merit proper concern and attention.As the protests against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro continue to mount, the opposition leader, whose self-declaration as president has been widely recognized by outside countries, with the notable exceptions of Russia and China, shows he is backing the rule of law.Power does...
May 02, 2019

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Don't go to Turkey
OkazOn the Discovery channel, I watched a documentary showing how foreign tourists have been swindled in restaurants, coffee shops and other places in Turkey.The reader may be surprised when he or she comes to know that these swindling operations are orchestrated with the collusion of the security authorities.If a tourist objected to a high bill, which may exceed thousands of dollars, he or she will immediately consider going to the police. There the tourist will discover that the coordination between the police and the swindlers is at its highest.The tourist will come to realize that he or she was a victim, a precious catch and an easy prey for an integrated swindling operation in which the police, who should protect him or her, are part of the conspiracy.The media in the Kingdom has been...
May 01, 2019

Don't go to Turkey

Nature’s demise
I rose with the sun. And unlike at home I did not find the need to snooze my alarm a thousand times. What I was experiencing was so much better than what the best of dreams could offer. I found no reason not to get up. I gulped in the fresh mountain air as a thirsty person quenches his thirst upon finding water.The sky was a diamond, cloudless and flawless; water gushed down a hill somewhere beyond; birds chirped their way into a mellifluous song and animals awoke to the blaze of the morning sun. The trees just stood there majestically, welcoming a new day.It was beautiful, that moment to be surrounded by nature in its most pristine, serene form; to be there and witness its awakening.What I felt there was something I could never feel amidst concrete jungles, factories and industrial...
May 01, 2019

Nature’s demise

The long-overdue Muslim Brotherhood ban
Though social media make it easier for them to push their malign messages, terrorist groups around the world still attempt a degree of political respectability by setting up supposedly harmless front organizations. The Provisional IRA, which waged a vicious campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland, had Sinn Fein which supposedly deplored violence and wanted only peace. Yet a Sinn Fein leader once famously announced after the Good Friday agreement ended decades of brutal conflict that “The Boys”, as he affectionately called them, “hadn’t gone away”. And he went on to say of his party’s participation in the political process, that Sinn Fein had an Armalite rifle in one hand and a ballot box in the other. The political establishment, certainly in Britain, takes the...
May 01, 2019

The long-overdue Muslim Brotherhood ban

Talal Al-Gashgari
No rest in rest houses
Al-MadinaA CITIZEN recounted to me his bitter experience with some of the rest houses on the outskirts of Jeddah. He said the rent they charge for a day is as high as the Himalayas. The rent, according to him, may exceed SR2,000 per day during normal seasons and it is doubled during the Eid holidays, weekends and the school breaks.For the owners of these rest houses, the day is not 24 hours, but only 20 hours. They own this unique patent of the shorter-than-normal day, for which they are being envied by the international astronomical societies and calendar makers, whether for Hijri or Gregorian dates.The check-in time is set at 4 p.m. while the check-out is at 12 noon the next day. They do not allow one minute more for the occupants to collect their belongings and move out.The owners of...
April 30, 2019

No rest in rest houses

The high price of loyalty
Naresh Goyal transformed Indian air travel. When it began operations in 1993, his Jet Airways provided an efficient and quality alternative to the lackluster state carrier Air India. Like other entrepreneurs such as Sunil Mittal, Narayana Murthy and Subhash Chandra who were all first movers when the country opened up the economy to the private sector, Goyal became a well-regarded billionaire. Through his holding company Tail Winds he owned a majority stake in Jet Airways.In 2013 he sold for $380 million a 24 percent share in Jet to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways. It seemed an important alliance which generated confidence in his airline a year after his local rival Kingfisher Airlines collapsed with debts of $1.1 billion. But in 2007 Goyal had revived a deal to take over rival Sahara...
April 30, 2019

The high price of loyalty

This is not the way to address grievances
The world has become very strange. The bizarre and gruesome events in Sri Lanka last week make one painfully aware that criminals come in all forms and disguises. This time they were hiding behind the cloak of honorable members of the business community who had no transactions in mind except to put into action their deviate ideas of mayhem and destruction.In that they are criminals, there is no question. For what they were planning to perpetuate was an act of violence against innocent people. The authorities must deal with them swiftly and firmly. And we the public must be supportive of counter-terrorism agencies as well, for indiscriminate violence touches each one of us.While terrorism is being exercised often on a large scale against innocent people through state-sponsored mandates...
April 30, 2019

This is not the way to address grievances

Is Omar Al-Bashir an offender or a victim?
The arrest and ouster of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has brought his 30-year reign to an end. In the military statement read out by Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf, the phrase used was the “toppling of the regime.” He added that Bashir had been arrested and was in a safe place. According to media reports, a large hoard of cash was found at the home of Bashir that included millions in US dollars, euros and other foreign currencies.Investigations are ongoing against Bashir on charges of money laundering and illegal possession of large sums of foreign currency. Protests erupted against Bashir’s regime a few months ago over a government decision to end subsidies and a subsequent sharp rise in bread prices. The unrest quickly escalated into nationwide demonstrations in a...
April 30, 2019

Is Omar Al-Bashir an offender or a victim?

Saudi Arabia will support Sudan against the influence of the Three Evils
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not and will not brag about its foreign affairs. The Kingdom is known as one of the few countries whose actions speak louder than words. Its positions toward its sisterly countries, friends and allies during hardships and challenges are the best proof of this.In 1988, when Sudan was hit by severe floods the Kingdom set up a large air bridge to provide relief to the displaced and injured Sudanese.The Kingdom and Sudan have long enjoyed a brotherly relationship, which was strengthened by mutual commercial trade between the seaports in Suakin and Jeddah.The Kingdom has not sought any interests or political gain from aid it has given to the Sudanese people. During the 1988 floods, it took into consideration the fact that the Sudanese government was made up of...
April 30, 2019

Saudi Arabia will support Sudan against the influence of the Three Evils

Abdullah Al-Jamili
Why was the woman teacher's car burned down in Taif?
Al-MadinaA FEW days back, a Saudi man deliberately set the car of a woman schoolteacher in Taif ablaze. He had been closely watching the car until he completed his heinous crime. The car was peacefully parked outside the woman's house when the man poured benzene on it before setting it alight.This was captured in a video footage that went viral on social media.The man was subsequently arrested in Jeddah where he fled after the crime. The car owner said the man had been known to her and that he had threatened her before. She denied that it was her own brother who had committed the crime.Until this very moment the intentions of the criminal were not known but he was being investigated and would be produced in court.Did the criminal have a personal grudge against the woman teacher or was...
April 29, 2019

Why was the woman teacher's car burned down in Taif?

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