Saudi Arabia News Archives

Saudi Arabia: 1 hour, 4 minutes ago Despite the unfavourable economic climate witnessed in most countries, Saudi Arabia has retained enviable growth rates due to massive oil reserves and a sound financial system.

Riyadh: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani met yesterday the Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud at the latter's farm at Jenadriyah, in Riyadh.

It goes well beyond the average family squabble. For months, two billionaire families in Saudi Arabia, linked by marriage, have been locked in a bitter legal battle centered on an estimated $22 billion debt implosion and allegations of billions of dollars in fraud.

FT.com Blow to Nymex as Saudis drop benchmark Move could encourage other producers to abandon the benchmark and threatens the dominance of the most heavily traded oil futures contract Javier Blas London - FT.com Published on Thursday, Oct.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a veiled threat to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, warning against harming Iranians during the upcoming Muslim pilgrimage.

The swift action today by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to overturn a sentence of 60 lashes against a Saudi television producer sent an important message to the country's courts, Human Rights Watch said today.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has compiled a series of guidelines for citizens wishing to travel abroad, following a series of incidents in which Saudis traveling abroad ran into trouble with local authorities.

Saudi bloggers are rallying to the support of a fellow blogger who claims that a newspaper had lifted photographs and copy from his blog without permission.

Saudi Arabia: 1 hour, 39 minutes ago The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has managed to weather the global economic downturn and its near-term outlook for economic growth is positive, according to a Morgan Stanley economic report on the country published today.

Saudi Arabia: 1 hour, 37 minutes ago DuPont, one of the market-driven science companies, will hold several launch seminars in Saudi Arabia in late October 2009 in coordination with local distributor Al Jammaz to jumpstart the introduction of its fast-acting Coragen insecticide across the Middle East -Africa region.

'Russia to oppose UN debate on Gaza genocide' Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Israel pulls textbook over reference to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS/RIYADH: Russia has assured Israel that it will oppose any UN Security Council discussion of a damning report on Israel's genocidal Gaza offensive, a senior Israeli official told AFP on ...

RIYADH: Jet Airways, India's premier airline, has announced daily flights between Riyadh and Mumbai starting Oct.

The first batch of 518 hajj pilgrims flew for Saudi Arabia yesterday as Biman Bangladesh Airlines started month-long hajj-flight operations.

It's not illegal to own a gun in Saudi Arabia, but there were no gun stores to purchase them from.

Narges Kalhor, the latest in what could be a string of Iranian defectors, speaks yesterday after seeking asylum in Germany.

The Pilgrims Fund's ) medical team in the Holy Land is fully equipped to handle Influenza H1N1, said its Health Operations director Dr Wan Mansor Wan.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- At least five commanders of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed and dozens of other people were left dead and wounded Sunday in two bombings in the restive southeast along Iran's frontier with Pakistan, Iranian state news agencies reported.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 RIYADH: Remittances from Saudi Arabia's estimated nine million mostly Asian foreign workers are soaring as the kingdom recruits more of them for its massive development plan, an economist said on Saturday.

The two dead men, identified as Yousef al-Shehri and Raed al-Harbi, were both Saudis who were included on a list of 85 wanted alleged Al Qaeda associates Two men killed in a gunfight in southern Saudi Arabia were known Al Qaeda militants who carried a store of explosives and four suicide vests for use in an "imminent" attack, the government said ...

Saudi Arabia: 52 minutes ago Rolls- Royce Motor Cars has launched its new model, the Ghost, in Saudi Arabia.

Gulf finance ministers and central bank governors on Saturday reiterated their commitment to a monetary union and a single currency which four states plan to launch next year.

The internet is an increasingly important tool for physicians, but the extent to which it is used by dermatologists is unknown.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdullaziz vowed Thursday after two days of ground-breaking talks in Damascus to open a new chapter in bilateral relations after years of enmity.

London, Oct 8: Dr Hafez Almedlej, the chairman of the Saudi Professional League Commission, has claimed that English football clubs are gaining in popularity and a dozen Saudi Arabian millionaires might come forward to buy some of them.

Reporting from Cairo - They are a desert king and a military officer-turned-president. Drive through their capitals and their images glow from billboards and painted walls, old men with their eyes fixed everywhere, even as whispers grow about who will rise to replace them.

A Saudi official says two members of al-Qaida and a soldier have been killed in a shootout in southern Saudi Arabia.

With the development of worlda s globalization, more immigrant cities are emerging.

"The trials and disasters that we are undergoing are actually opportunities and challenges that demand that all of us do some introspection, re-examine our positions, and correct the flaws - so as to emerge from [the crises] stronger than when we encountered them.

RIYADH : Jabal Omar Development Co has invited greater Malaysian participation, including Tabung Haji, in the 24ha real estate project near the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

WAM Al Ain, 11th Oct. 2009 -- The much awaited Low Cost Airlines World Mena 2009 opens tomorrow.

The options may come down to a quick flight in a crowded jet or leather-bound, air-conditioned midsize luxury in the redesigned E350 More Captured insurgent in Iraq: `I will fight again' This Oct.

"What we see around us does not lead to the hope that we will have a government in the near future as the US still has not given the green light," said Aoun, a member of the opposition.

Leptin, a molecule linked with obesity, may play a crucial role in predicting poor prognosis from thyroid cancer, at least in the Middle Eastern region of the world, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research Meeting.

Prince Turki al-Faisal was the longtime director general of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service, the Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah. He was also the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

A proposed unity deal set to be signed between rival Palestinian powers Hamas and Fatah, a truly significant occasion in itself, is the latest in a string of similar moves toward reconciliation that have taken place across the region in recent weeks.

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett is ready to sell his 50% stake in the Anfield club to Saudi investor Prince Faisal bin Fahd, according to reports.

TUNIS: Tunisia has barred its citizens from making the annual pilgrimage to Makkah for the first time because of a lack of swine flu vaccines, the government said Tuesday.

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Tourism, Sultan Ahmed, who is currently on a four day official visit to Saudi Arabia, discussed matters of bilateral cooperation in the tourism and hospitality sector and issues of mutual interest particularly with regard to ways and means of increasing tourism in both the countries.

PORTSMOUTH'S players finally expect to pick up their September salaries today after an agreement was reached last night for Arab businessman Ali Al-Faraj to become the new owner of the Premier League's bottom club.

Warsaw, Poland, October 02, 2009 -- These types of telecommunication products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in the Middle East and Asia, as well as by the soldiers that are stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With many Moroccans intending to make the trip to Mecca for the Hajj, here is a timely warning from the Saudi government about the risks of swine flu.

Big oil producing nations denied on Tuesday a British newspaper report that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil.

Family awaits compensation from Saudi government Tuesday, October 06, 2009 By our correspondent Karachi The life of Shahnaz Begum and her siblings - three sisters and a brother were - devastated when their father, Mohammed Yaseen, died in in October 2000 in a road accident in Tabouk, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia: 2 hours, 27 minutes ago PRESS RELEASE Saudi Arabian operator Mobily, partially owned by UAE operator Etisalat, has awarded Cambridge Broadband Networks a significant contract for the provision of its VectaStar, point-to-multipoint, microwave backhaul platform.

Saudi Arabia is weighing buying an advanced Russian missile system to shore up its defence against a potentially nuclear Iran, Gulf analysts and diplomats said.

After a strike by pilots and a mid-air scuffle in the cockpit comes rat trouble for Air India.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Trimek are seeking an exclusive world class English language training system that will be used in 18 Middle East learning centres.

Saudi Arabia: 1 hour, 19 minutes ago Saudi Arabian Airlines , Saudi Arabia's national airline, has taken the delivery of its first Airbus A320 becoming the newest operator of the aircraft.

Who should India talk to: Zardari and Co or the King in Saudi Arabia? Topic started by Dash_Dot on Sep 29, 2009 1:54:27 am It appears that the King has more say in the matters concerning Pakistan then Zardari and Co.

Saudi individuals and charitable groups remain "a top source of funding for al Qaeda and associated terror groups, such as the Taliban," Congressional investigators say.

DUBAI: The Gulf Arab rail network is expected to cost between $20 billion and $25 billion , as the six oil-producing states seek to create a similar model to Europe's Eurostar, a regional official said on Wednesday.