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JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Saturday assured India that its decision to deport foreign workers, following implementation of its nitaqat law , will only impact illegal blue-collar workers saying that the kingdom's actions will only encourage legally employed people to work in the country.

Digital weapons sought to 'destroy data and manipulate machinery' at oil, gas, and electricity companies, officials tell New York Times An illustrative photo of an electricity company control room.

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the... A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark ... (more)

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attends an emergency meeting with Arab League foreign ministers, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, April 26, 2012.

One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott headed to a friend's house.

WAM ABU DHABI /RIYADH, May 25th, 2013 -- Arabtec Holding PJSC announced today that its joint venture between Arabtec Saudi Arabia LLC and Greece's Terna S.A. has been awarded a SAR 404 million contract by Aldara Medical Corporation to build Aldara Hospital and Medical Center, a 105-bed hospital in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.

The Energy Sector has been awarded two contracts valued at approximately EUR200 million by Saudi Electricity Company .

US President Barack Obama has lifted a moratorium on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay as part of a renewed push to close the detention camp.

Before the Hajj pilgrimage brings millions of Muslims to Mecca in October 2013, the WHO is assessing MERS-CoV health risk in Saudi Arabia, where the deadly coronavirus disease has infected 33 people.

Bahraini women hold pictures of Bahraini senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem during a protest against the regime and to show solidarity with the cleric in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on May 17, 2013.

A 25-year-old Kenyan woman told News4's Jackie Bensen that she was kept as a domestic slave for three months by Saudi Arabian diplomats living in Northern Virginia.

Photo: Ghost town of Tawergha, Libya where 30,000 black Africans were "cleansed" by U.S. backed "rebels" after taking power with U.S. military aid and air strikes.

PyradiaA s engineers were heading to Saudi Arabia this week to complete the installation of 2 preheating furnaces representing PyradiaA s industrial ovens division as one of the equipment contractors for the Ma'aden's Ras Al Khair Aluminium Smelter Project.

Five Yemenis convicted of murder and robbery were executed in Saudi Arabia and their bodies displayed in public in the southwestern town of Jizan.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 7, 2011 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech on May 23 in Washington, D.C., in which he said, "I envision an Israel that can dedicate even more of its creative and scientific talents to help solve some of the great challenges of the day, foremost of which is finding a clean and affordable substitute ... (more)

THE parents of a Perth-born man jailed in Saudi Arabia on accusations of terrorist-related offences have met with Australian government officials in a bid to assist their son.

I Notice that a number of news items in a recent edition of the Star featured the term Islamist, or in the case of the Afghanistan item, straight Islam, to describe the extreme reactionary and/or retrograde groups and their attitudes.

WHO officials say scientists worldwide should be sharing information on the recent spread of coronavirus, not looking to profit from their work.

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, announced its workforce in Saudi Arabia has grown by 33% bringing the total headcount to around 1,000. Nearly 30% of the new recruits are Saudi nationals.

A man, wearing a surgical mask as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus, pays for medicine at a hospital pharmacy in Khobar city in Dammam May 21, 2013.