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Paris - A Saudi Princess who habitually runs up outlandish bills on luxury goods and hotel stays which she then neglects to pay, is to have goods worth €12 million seized on the order of a French judge.

Today is a historic moment for Saudi Arabia as King Abdullah has signed a decree allowing women to participate in the Kingdom's Shura Council, which until now, had been an all-male enclave.

A female Saudi activist has become the third woman this year to sue the interior ministry over the infamous driving ban which prohibits women from driving in the Kingdom.

Mideast revolutions continue as Jordan’s government begins to collapse, the Muslim Brotherhood is taking aim at Jordan, and Jordan’s King Abdullah is starting to lose tribal support. Jordan's collapse may occur quickly.

Saudi Arabia is to hold a three-day period of mourning following the death of Crown Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday. World leaders have sent condolences to King Abdullah on the death of his brother.

King Abdullah's successor to the Saudi Arabian throne, Crown Prince Naif, died on Saturday. The 78-year-old prince was named as next in line to the throne in October 2011.

As the anniversary of Saudi Arabia's Women2Drive campaign approaches, hundreds of signatures have been gathered on a petition appealing to King Abdullah to lift the ban on women drivers in the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabian writer Hamza Kashgari, 23, a columnist for the al-Bilad daily in Jeddah, was forced to flee the Kingdom for safety when a fatwa demanding his execution for blasphemy was issued earlier this week.

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's religious police, responsible for enforcing strict sharia law in the Kingdom, have been criticized in recent months for being too aggressive.

Saudi Arabia held municipal elections yesterday but voter turnout was low, with only 1.2 million men registering to vote. Women were not allowed the opportunity to vote as the historic decision to give them suffrage had not come into effect yet.