RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council has accused the Houthi movement of staging a coup in Yemen after they announced they were dissolving parliament and forming a new government, Kuwait’s news agency said.“The Houthi coup marks a grave and unacceptable escalation... and...
Residents in Hail are raging over the fact that ATM machines were not supplying cash in their area,...
Official statistics of the Ministry of Health have recently revealed that 13.4 percent Saudis are af...
The volume of money remitted by expatriates working in the Kingdom registered a new record of SR153.3 billion in 2014, local media said...
The Ministries of Health, Finance and Civil Service are streamlining procedures to organize compensation for families of health practitioners who died after contracting coronavirus...
SAUDI ARABIA »
The number of smokers among Saudi secondary schoolgirls reached 65 percent, while the rate among intermediate schoolgirls stands at 45 percent, a recently-published survey said.The survey, conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at the Jeddah-based King Abdulaziz University, said the phenomenon poses a...
A number of tourist companies offer programs and websites to familiarize tourist locations where halal products are available. They are meant to...
Jeddah drivers who own small cars complained about the dangers of heavy trucks and tankers who put other motorists at risk, as they...
The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) has warned citizens and residents against harming or looting any archaeological...
At last, high school disabled student Aboud Al-Aboud from Aflaj received Saturday the long-awaited gift of a $80,000 American special vehicle...
The National Gas and Industrialization Company (GASCO) distributed more than 290,000 cooking gas cylinders in Jeddah in the...
Saudi Arabia was among the top 40 countries investing in research and development (R&D) areas in 2014, local media said, quoting a report by Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association (GPCA).The report, based on studies carried out by a US research firm, said Saudi...
The general assembly of the Riyadh-based World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has elected its new board of trustees as part of the 12th...
The Riyadh-based Saudi Computer Society (SCS) has announced that its 20th Conference on Social Networking and Intellectual Security will take place on Feb. 11th and 12th at Princess Noura University this year. Education Minister Azzam Al-Dakhil will be the guest of...
Expressing solidarity with of Kashmiri people, Pakistani Ambassador Manzoor ul Haq urged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)...
The General Education Directorate in Al-Ahsa recently held a meeting to manage the construction of new school buildings in the area.The school planning directorate, under Education Director Ahmad Balghaneim, will review the new school projects and redefine old ones for the...
Filipino workers, mostly from Mindanao island, were outraged after a group of their countrymen held placards and slogans in Damman, calling...
Sri Lankan workers bound for foreign employment will now have to pay 5,000 rupees (SR170) instead of the 7,700 rupees (SR226) to the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE). Employment Minister Thalatha Athukorala said the decision will come into effect on May...
MIDDLE EAST »
ARBIL: The remains of 23 men from Iraq’s Yazidi minority were found when a mass...
BAGHDAD: A pair of bombings in the Iraqi capital Saturday killed over two dozen...
ISTANBUL: The powerful head of Turkey’s intelligence agency, one of the closest...
SANAA: A bomb exploded outside the republican palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa...
MMAN, Jordan: The United Arab Emirates said Saturday it ordered a squadron of F-...
WORLD »
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of parents, students and activists Saturday protested outside...
ISLAMABAD: YouTube will remain blocked in Pakistan "indefinitely", an official s...
DHAKA: New firebomb attacks killed another nine people in Bangladesh, police sai...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new government cleared its first test in parliament, securi...
MUNICH, Germany: Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Saturday that send...
SPORTS »
LONDON: Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at home to Hull City allowed Chelsea to estab...
BATA, Equatorial Guinea: A decades-long drought for an African Cup of Nations ti...
Qatar’s rally star Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah confirmed a record-breaking dusty doz...
ATLANTA: Atlanta won Friday’s battle of the NBA Conference leaders, beating Gold...
BERLIN: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang led Borussia Dortmund to a 3-0 win at Freibur...
ECONOMY »
NEW YORK: Oil rallied again on Friday, with benchmark Brent crude on track for its largest two-week gain in 17 years, as falling oil rig counts and violence in producer L...
Saudi Arabia’s nonoil exports have suffered from the slowdown in China and a varied economic performance from its other main markets in East...
NEW YORK: A blowout jobs report has changed the calculus for investors for what the US Federal Reserve might do in coming months...
Riyad Bank is set to support a new community-based capacity building initiative in the northern province of Al-Jouf. The initiative, which is...
FRANKFURT: German airport operator Fraport expects Greece’s new government to honor a $1.4 billion deal for Fraport to run 14 regional...
SAO PAULO: Petrobras’ board of directors has named a new CEO, choosing the head of the nation’s Banco do Brasil to take charge of the state-run...
After an unsteady year in 2014, capital flows to emerging markets (EMs) are likely to remain volatile in 2015. Significant adjustments to...
SEOUL: The patriarch of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor group and his heir-apparent have raised $1.1 billion selling their stakes in its logistics arm...
MUMBAI: Tata Motors Ltd, India’s biggest automaker by revenue, posted a fall in quarterly profit, missing analyst estimates, due to...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s struggling national carmaker Proton inked an agreement to help Indonesia study the possibility of developing and...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced global passenger traffic results for 2014 showing demand...
TOKYO: College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the town...
THE HAGUE: CEO Frederic Gagey insisted Friday that Air France was “not a bottomless pit” and that the loss-making airline was making progress..
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