Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond

Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Michigan, and charged with giving false statements to federal agents and possessing an altered passport.\n\nDefense lawyer James C. Howarth filed a motion asking a Detroit federal judge to set bond for Al Khawahir, who didn\'t initially seek release.\n\nHowarth has said his client didn\'t know at the time of his arrest that pressure cookers were used to make the bombs in the Boston Marathon attack and was...

Saudi reports latest death from new virus

Saudi Arabia remains the center for the virus as investigators from the World Health Organization seek more clues about its origins and how it is spread. More than 20 people have died from the virus worldwide.\n\nThe Saudi Health Ministry announced the latest death Monday but gave no other details.\n\nSince September 2012, the WHO has been informed of 41 confirmed cases of the virus.\n\nThe virus has been compared to SARS, a respiratory infection that surfaced in China in late 2002 and killed at least...

Saudi women teachers demanding full time jobs

An Associated Press reporter saw women holding posters Monday calling for full time contracts and benefits that include steady pay and retirement packages.\n\nSome say they have been teaching part time in government schools for more than 10 years. The teachers have demonstrated in the past outside the ministry to press their demands.\n\nThe country is struggling to employ some of its best educated women. The Saudi statistics agency says women represent just 15 percent of the country\'s...

Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation

The website for newspaper Sada reported that the man, identified only by the family name of Sureihi, died in hospital late on Friday.\n\nThe self-immolation emulated that of a street vendor in Tunisia, whose 2011 death sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.\n\nFamily members were seen outside the hospital Saturday demanding answers about why police confiscated the man\'s goods. Witnesses say the family wants to know what led him to douse himself in gasoline and set himself ablaze on Thursday.\n\nSaudi...

64 including Saudi Arabian woman scale Everest

Tilak Padney of Nepal\'s Mountaineering Department says 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on Saturday morning after climbing all night from the highest camp on South Col.\n\nAll were reported to be safe.\n\nAmong them was Raha Moharrak, who became the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world\'s highest peak.\n\nEverest can be climbed from either Nepal or Tibet.\n\nMay is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more favorable...

Christian teacher released on bail after charges o

A history and geography teacher in the southern city of Luxor, 24-year-old Dimiana Abdul-Nour paid 20,000 pounds (almost $3,000 dollars) to be freed pending further investigation, the lawyer, Badawi Abu-Shanab said. The decision comes four days after a judge ordered her detained for 14 days during the investigation.\n\nParents of a student had accused the teacher of showing contempt to Islam while talking to fourth-graders about religion. Three pupils allegedly complained the teacher showed...

Strong quake jolts southern Iran, 15 injured

The report said the quake struck the Arabian Sea port town of Jask at 6:38am on Saturday damaging hundreds of homes.\n\nEven moderate quakes can be deadly in the Iranian countryside, where houses are often built of bricks.\n\nA 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 in southern Iran last month, which was felt across the Gulf region including in the UAE. \n\nSome 26,000 people were killed by a 6.6 magnitude quake that flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam in 2003.\n\nIran is located on...

Canada accuses Qatar of trying to buy UN agency

The International Civil Aviation Organisation, which sets international civil aviation standards, has been in Montreal since its founding in 1946. Qatar presented ICAO with an unsolicited offer last month to serve as the new permanent seat of the organization beginning in 2016.\n\nThe proposal included construction of new premises, paying to move materials and staffers, and paying for all expenses resulting from staff terminations and severance packages, according to the UN agency. Qatar did not...

Egypt court sentences 3 in deadly train accident

The state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday that the train conductor and two supervisors were also fined around $70 each for involuntary manslaughter and grave negligence. They have the right to appeal.\n\nState-run media reported that a maintenance engineer, another train employee and the driver\'s assistant were acquitted.\n\nThe January accident left more than 100 recruits injured, and came just two months after 49 kindergarteners were killed when their school bus crashed into a train.\n\nThe...

Pakistan's lead prosecutor in Bhutto case killed

Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he drove to court in the normally quiet capital, where a concentration of diplomats, government and military officials and aid workers live. Nobody claimed responsibility for the killing, but as Ali\'s work put him in direct conflict with militant groups, suspicion immediately fell on them.\n\nThe shooting in Islamabad comes as Pakistan prepares for nationwide elections on May 11. Taliban militants have tried to derail the elections with...