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History of Saudi Arabia

The following lists events in the year 2018 in Saudi Arabia.

Incumbents

Events

January

  • 12 January - Women were allowed to gather at a football game for the first time due to easing of the strict gender separation rules.[1]
  • 24 January - Dozens of camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant near the capital of Riyadh following reports about injections of botox to make camels more attractive.[2]

June

  • 21 June – According to analyst OPEC will keep a oil price goes on higher, Ajay Rajadhyaksha and Michael Gavin both said, “lack of consensus on any output increase”, “even if Russia and Saudi Arabia raise output unilaterally, it would leave OPEC’s spare capacity cushion thin by historical standards".[3]
  • 24 June – The Saudi Arabian government lifts the ban on women driving, which is the country's most progressive form of women's rights to date.

Deaths

Mohammed Al-Mfarah

References

  1. ↑ "Saudi Arabia allows women at football game for first time". 12 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  2. ↑ "A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email". 24 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  3. ↑ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-what-happens-to-oil-if-everyones-opec-expectations-are-wrong-2018-06-21
  4. ↑ "الفنان السعودي «محمد المفرح» الشهير بـ«أبو مسامح»". thenewkhalij.org (in Arabic). Retrieved 25 January 2018.
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