Saudi Arabia has banned auto licence tags whose Arabic characters spell out offensive words when romanised, with the list of banned combinations including "USA", Al-Watan newspaper reported.

沙乌地阿拉伯国家报报导，沙国禁止那些当阿拉伯字母转译为拉丁字母后，变成冒犯字眼的车牌，而列在黑名单的字母组合包括「USA」（美国）。

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Jamal Khashoggi, who is the editor and publisher of the influential Saudi daily Al-Watan noted that he believes Mr.Obama won the Peace prize for his overtures to the Arab and Islamic world, and especially for his June address at Cairo University.

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"Maybe with the coming administration in the United States we can talk about direct negotiations, " he told al-Watan.

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Al-Watan adds that the taking of European hostages is "only the beginning of a long series of confrontations between such movements and the Western countries".

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