Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Female telemarketers complain of harassment, low salaries
Saudi women who work as telemarketers in the private sector have complained that they face constant harassment by clients and are poorly compensated for their work, Makkah daily reported. Although the women said dealing with the harassment they face is
3 killed, 5 hurt as car overturns
ABHA — Three people were killed and five others injured when the vehicle carrying them overturned on the Khamis Mushayt–Riyadh Road near the village of Rubah. All the victims were from the same family. Spokesman for the Saudi Red Crescent
Key Jeddah talks add weight to anti-IS push
Foreign ministers from the Arab Contact Group have pledged to adopt a unified stance against extremist ideology in the Arab world. Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal presided over the crucial meeting in Jeddah on Sunday. Five Arab countries took
Four arrested over drugs possession
JEDDAH — Officers at a police checkpoint in Dhahban, about 50 km north of Jeddah, arrested four youths in two separate incidents after they were found carrying a total of 510 amphetamine tablets and 15 hashish fingers in their possession.
‘Illegal maid dens’ in capital raided
The Ministry of Labor and the Riyadh police are setting up a joint operations team to nab labor law violators in the Riyadh region as new raids on Sunday targeted recruitment offices in Riyadh that were dealing with undocumented workers.
Wimbledon champ Kvitova collars New Haven title
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: Reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova won her second WTA Connecticut Open title in three years Saturday, defeating Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-2 in the US Open warm-up event. Fourth-ranked Kvitova, the 2012 New Haven winner who lost
Sleepy Philippine towns wake up to answer world’s phones
ILOILO, Philippines: Jennifer Ann Palmares-Fong has come home. Fifteen years after leaving Iloilo in the Philippines for the bright lights of Manila, she and her friends have been lured back as her once-quiet hometown is transformed. “Never in my wildest
‘Song Of My Mother’ wins ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ award
SARAJEVO: Turkish director Erol Mintas won the “Heart of Sarajevo” prize for the best picture at the 20th Sarajevo film festival. Mintas’s “Song Of My Mother” — a moving story of an elderly Kurdish woman yearning to return to her
Women-oriented roles in Bollywood ‘face gender bias’
MUMBAI: Actress Priyanka Chopra, whose upcoming movie on boxing champion “Mary Kom” has generated a lot of interest, said that women-oriented roles are still not welcome in Bollywood. According to The Indian Express, she said that in the male-dominated society,
Baghdad warns buyers of “ISIS oil”
Crude sold by extremist group finding its way to Pakistan, says source Baghdad : Iraq has warned buyers of crude oil that any unauthorized oil purchases made from its territory could be used to fund activities by the extremist militant
Suspected al-Qaeda bomb kills Yemeni general
A senior Yemeni army officer was killed on Saturday when a bomb planted in his vehicle exploded in the main southern city of Aden, a military official said, blaming al-Qaeda. “A bomb exploded in the car of General Ahmed Mohammed
Defiant Ukraine turns on military display as war rumbles on in the east
Armored vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev on Sunday in a defiant national day display of military power that Ukrainian President Petro Poroskenko said was being mobilized for an historic war of independence from Russia. Soldiers, some due to head
Iran unveils new short-range missiles, drones
Iran’s official news agency says the country has produced a new generation of short-range marine missiles and aerial drones. The IRNA report on Sunday says the Ghadir missile, with a range of 100 kilometers (62 miles), is capable of destroying
Is Japan’s nuclear plan safe?
By: Arnie Gundersen Only luck and real courage at 14 nuclear reactors on Japan’s Pacific coast overcame the technical failures of nuclear power and prevented the nation from being destroyed by radiation. The untold story of March 11, 2011 is
Yemen goverment talks with houthis ‘fail’
Talks with Shiite rebels, who have set up armed protest camps in the Yemeni capital, have “failed” after they rejected a proposed government of technocrats, the president’s negotiating team said Sunday. The rebels “rejected all the proposals presented to them,”
Antony of cricket, Shastri of politics
By: M. J. AKBAR What does tight-lipped Congress politician A.K. Antony have in common with loquacious cricket commentator Ravi Shastri? Both have been summoned from the woodwork to pass judgement on a debacle. Antony had the simpler task, for he
‘Terrorist’ Islamist militias seize Libya Tripoli airport
Islamist militias which announced their seizure of Libya’s Tripoli airport have been branded as “terrorists” by the country’s elected parliament. A coalition of Islamist militias, mainly from the Libyan city of Misrata, claimed control over Tripoli’s main airport on Saturday
Is global outrage enough?
By: Bikram Vohra It is one of the ironies of violence and strife that huge numbers of dead and dying don’t count. The world takes it in its stride and the casualties become meaningless as we have just seen in
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