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Saudi Arabia: King Salman orders driving licenses for women

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a historic royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom as of next June.

“The royal decree will implement the provisions of traffic regulations, including the issuance of driving licenses for men and women alike,” the Saudi Press Agency said.

RELATED: Senior scholars see no impediment to women driving in Saudi Arabia.

This was the one file and issue which Saudi women have fought not just years, but decades for.

When we asked those previous from this men and women who said we didn’t need to drive, King Salman,” Latifa Shaalan, a Saudi female member of Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council, told Al Arabiya.

RELATED: Saudi women reactions to new driving decree flood Twitter.

According to the latest statistics, there are nearly 800,000 men, most from South Asia, who work solely as drivers to Saudi women. »

Plane crash that killed UN boss 'may have been caused by aircraft attack'

Authored by theguardian.com

“I can confidently state that the deeper we have gone into the searches, the more relevant information has been found.”.

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The UK and Rhodesian authorities were intercepting UN communications at the time of the crash and had intelligence operatives in the area. »

Monsanto Caught Ghostwriting Stanford University Hoover Institution Fellow’s Published Work

Authored by sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com

The documents, which include internal emails and memos, reveals among other things, how Henry I. Miller, a Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, allowed Monsanto to ghostwrite an editorial he published in Forbes.com and claimed as his own in 2015.

Within days Monsanto provided Miller with a draft, see below, which is almost identical to the one published in Forbes.

The Hoover Institution lists its mission as — among other objectives — to “limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.”. »

US Marines get first female infantry officer

Authored by bbc.com

A female US Marine has made history by becoming the first woman to complete the Corps' famously gruelling infantry officer training.

The lieutenant, who wants to keep her identity private, graduated in Quantico, Virginia, on Monday.

Marine Corps commandant Gen. Robert Neller tweeted a picture of the woman, saying he was "proud of this officer & her fellow leaders". »

Three or More Cups of Coffee Daily Halves Mortality Risk in Patients with Both HIV and HCV

Authored by alphagalileo.org

Three or More Cups of Coffee Daily Halves Mortality Risk in Patients with Both HIV and HCV.

Novel five-year study highlights importance of behaviors such as coffee drinking and not smoking on health and survival of HIV-infected patients, report investigators in the Journal of Hepatology.

Attached files Drinking three or more cups of coffee a day halves mortality risk from all causes in HIV-HCV co-infected patients. »