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2018 in Saudi Arabia
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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]
March
June
- 21 June – According to analyst OPEC will keep oil price goes on higher[clarification needed], 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".[4]
- 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.
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Deaths
- 23 January – Mohammed Al-Mfarah, actor (b. 1945).[5]
- 2 October – Jamal Khashoggi, journalist (b. 1958) ( allegedly murdered inside the Saudi embassy in Turkey )[6]
- 27 November – Sultan Al-Bargan, football player (b. 1983).[7]
- 22 December – Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prince (b. 1931).[8]
References
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