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"The impact has been enormous," said Michael McGehee, the associate professor at Stanford who received the $25 million Saudi grant.

While the new governments in Tunisia and Egypt have been offered help by the G8, Jordan has been given a $400m£250m0m) Saudi grant and (with fellow monarchy Morocco) invited to join the Saudi-led Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – dubbed the Gulf Counter-revolutionary Club by its critics.

So it is now asking the US for aircraft, such as the Cessna AC-208B Combat Caravan (shown above), to perform close air support missions, presumably purchased with Saudi grant money.

Less than a day earlier, the Saudi embassy granted haj visas to a first batch of nearly 400 Thai Muslims.

The last Saudi diplomat granted asylum in the United States, Mr. Jubeir said, was Mohammed al-Khilewi in 1994.

Saudi Law grants the family members of a victim the right to pardon the life of the person who faces death for killing their relative in exchange for blood money.

The news of King Abdallah's plans to grant Saudi women the right to vote and stand in municipal elections is being met with elation by the country's Twitterati and Facebook enthusiasts.

Rajendra K. Aneja, Mumbai Human rights activists and politicians should not be impressed by the Saudi king's granting a few more rights to women.

In September 2011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced that Saudi women would be granted the right to vote and run for office in municipal elections for the first time, starting in 2015.

In 1933, Saudi King Ibn Saud granted a concession to Standard Oil of California, with Twitchell as one of the company's negotiators.

At the time, they recalled, the Saudi king had been granted the whole 14th floor for his entourage.