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This is clearly conjecture, and Sezgin's theories aren't widely shared by historians of cartography or backed by archaeological evidence. That doesn't mean he's totally wrong. As WorldViews discussed earlier, it's already established that Vikings reached the Americas centuries before Columbus's Spanish-sponsored expedition. And there are many reasons to believe that other pre-Columbian mariners also may have arrived at the continent's Atlantic and Pacific coasts — some of them, indeed, could very well have been Muslim.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, reacting to the loss of its strongholds to Shi'ite Houthi fighters, has accused its opponents of acting as a proxy for the United States and thtreatened renewed violence against them.
MERS was first identified in humans in 2012 and is caused by a coronavirus from the same viral family as the one that caused a deadly outbreak of SARS in China in 2003. Some 808 people in Saudi Arabia are known to have been infected with it since it was discovered, and 346 of them have died.
“Here’s what I’ll tell you about that strategy – it will change, it will change often,” he said. But at any one time it needs to be assessed and re-assessed. “I’m not obsessing so much about what’s in the middle.”
In recent weeks, Egypt's military has stepped up its operation against Islamists in the region. It is creating a 1km (0.6-mile) deep buffer zone along the border with Gaza by demolishing houses and destroying underground tunnels it says have been used to smuggle weapons from the Palestinian enclave.
Saudi Electricity Co, the Gulf's largest utility, has approached France's EDF about taking a minority stake in the French firm's Hinkley Point C nuclear project in Britain, industry sources said.
The Saudi Arabian Minister responsible for the National Guard starts a high-profile, official visit to the United States today and will meet with President Obama, Defense Secretary Hagel and other senior U.S. officials.
Alongside the three people who were sentenced to death, five other defendants were each given 30-year jail terms at the special criminal court in Riyadh. In addition to shooting the BBC crew, the alleged terror unit was accused of multiple murders in separate attacks in Riyadh and Alkhobar over a period spanning several years.
Some diplomats describe their work as 95% done, pending political decisions to be made in national capitals over Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium over the next few years, and the sequence in which international sanctions are lifted. Several leading arms-control experts have argued that the residual obstacles are more political than substantial, determined by the need of President Barack Obama’s administration and President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist government in Iran to reassure conservatives at home, rather than by the actual requirements of Iran’s nuclear energy programme or genuine nonproliferation concerns.
Riyadh is unsurprisingly incensed at any suggestion that it wouldn’t be accorded the same right to enrich uranium that the United States effectively granted to Iran under the interim agreement between those two countries. Sources familiar with the negotiations say that Riyadh has argued that the Gold Standard represents an unacceptable infringement on its national sovereignty, emphasizing that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which Saudi Arabia is a signatory, stipulates that countries have a right to develop peaceful nuclear energy.
