DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A leading international rights group on Wednesday said that foreigners employed as maids in Oman can face physical and verbal abuse while working entrapped in ...

MUSCAT (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Oman of not doing enough to tackle widespread abuse of foreign maids, which it says sometimes verges on slavery. The group said it had ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Oman of not doing enough to tackle widespread abuse of foreign maids, which it says sometimes verges on slavery. Omani authorities did not immediately respond to a ...

Oman Sultan Qaboos bin Said has died aged 79 after suffering from cancer. Sultan Qaboos had been in power since 1970, when he took the throne after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a ...