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Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive as of next summer, following a landmark royal decree, but they still face other hurdles in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.Here’s a look at some of those obstacles:GUARDIANSHIP LAWSUnder

Tokyo (dpa) – One hundred and seventy-seven whales have been killed by Japanese whalers in the north-west Pacific Ocean as part of an annual hunt, Japan’s fisheries ministry said on Tuesday.The number of whales killed had been previously

A rough diamond from Botswana, believed to be the biggest uncut diamond found in a century, has been bought by British company Graff Diamonds for 53 million dollars, Graff announced on Tuesday.The tennis-ball-sized diamond was found at Lucara Karowe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is assured of a fourth term in office after her Christian Democratic Union won a projected 32 percent of the votes cast in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but will have to contend with the far-right entering

GUAJATACA, Puerto Rico (AP) — Large amounts of federal aid have began moving into Puerto Rico, welcomed by local officials who praised the Trump administration’s response but called for the emergency loosening of rules long blamed for

BERLIN, September 23 (ANA) – Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Germany will likely see the number of parties in the Bundestag grow to six for the first time since 1949, surveys published in the last week before the vote have confirmed

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – London deemedUber unfit to run a taxi service on Friday and stripped it of its licence to operatefrom the end of next week in a major blow to the U.S.firm and 3.5 million users in one of the world’s wealthiest

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Nearly 10,000 villagers have left their homes around the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali because of a possible eruption.Officials raised the alert status of the volcano on Monday to the

September 21 – At a working lunch with African leaders at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US President Donald Trump said he saw great potential in Africa, according to a Thursday press release