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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4479488/Saudi-king-o...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-ar...

Article similarities aside, those might be two of the worst websites to quote as sources, the Daily Mail is banned from being cited on Wikipedia as it's not a reputable source; and the Independent is no longer producing what many people would consider journalism.

Those two links came up when I typed my initial search to verify the original source. When I later changed my query to "saudi arabia male guardianship" I found the main stream of related articles on Google News:

https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=d8vQiW5woz_iD_MaFaFAQ...

Note: I am not evaluating thousands of sourced references per day like Wikipedia - nor do I have a partisan political agenda. In this case, I evaluated the source content and it seemed fairly apolitical. Very likely, both of my linked sources used an AP or Reuters articles as their primary source.

There's a lot of that going around these days...

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