Saudi women hit the roads as driving ban is lifted

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Saudi society has been dominated by Wahhabism, a harsh strain of conservative Islam, since the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque of Mecca by about 400 extremists. The decision to lift the ban was catalysed in large ­measure by economic pain in the kingdom owing to a protracted oil slump.

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