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    Saudi Women May Get Driver's Licenses—With Some Major Caveats

    If the state doesn’t forbid them getting behind the wheel, their male guardians still might.
    by Krishnadev Calamur Sep 26, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: /Fahad Shadeed / Reuters

    King Salman’s royal decree Tuesday granting driver’s licenses to Saudi women ends the kingdom’s dubious distinction of being the only country that forbids women from driving.

    This doesn’t mean that Saudi women, who have for years campaigned to be allowed to drive, can immediately get behind the wheel of their friend’s father’s mint-condition 1961 Ferrari 250 GT and drive it around Riyadh

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