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 »
Daily Archives: November 11, 2014
Hundreds of drifters arrested in Riyadh
Riyadh traffic police arrested more than 646 car drifters during the last six months thanks to its undercover and intensive campaigns at drifting sites. The campaign was carried out by research teams in Riyadh supported by the official traffic patrols.
Pakistani court remands four suspects in lynching of Christians
A Pakistani court on Monday remanded in custody four people accused of burning to death a Christian couple for alleged blasphemy — killings which have sparked nationwide anger. Bonded laborer Shehzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama Bibi were beaten
KSA to pay $2m for education of Syrian children
Interior Minister and General Supervisor of the Saudi National Campaign to Support the Brothers in Syria Prince Mohammed bin Naif have decided to cover the tuition fees of 3,000 Syrian students who are now enrolled in Lebanese schools to the
Indian woman stripped, paraded on donkey as punishment
A woman was partially stripped naked and paraded on a donkey through her village in northern India after being accused of killing her nephew, police said Monday. Members of the village also blackened her face with coal dust and cut
Iraqi president to visit Kingdom today
Iraqi President Fuad Masum is to visit the Kingdom on Tuesday for the highest-level talks between the two neighbors in years, as relations thaw, the SPA announced on Monday. Saudi-Iraqi relations began to improve after Masum’s nomination of Prime Minister
Jordan jails four over links with ISIS group
A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced four men to jail on charges of membership of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and for promoting the jihadist organization on the Internet. The four Jordanians were arrested in August
KSA green technology patents up 58%
The Kingdom increased its patents in 2013 by 58 percent for technological inventions and solutions to protect the country’s environment. This is according to Muhammed Al-Suwaiyel, president of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), quoting a Thomson
U.S. blacklists Yemen’s Saleh, Houthi leaders
The United States on Monday blacklisted former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two Houthi rebels, two days after the U.N. Security Council took a similar step, accusing the trio of role in Yemen’s unrest. The U.S. Treasury said it
Al-Ahsa murderers condemned
The Cabinet condemned on Monday the Al-Ahsa attackers as murderers and welcomed an initiative by scholars, intellectuals and preachers to counter extremism in the country. Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, chaired the meeting at the Al-Yamamah
Assad mulls U.N. plan to ‘freeze’ Aleppo fighting
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Monday he was ready to study a U.N. plan to “freeze” fighting in the northern city of Aleppo, a statement from his office said. “President Assad has been informed by [U.N. envoy Staffan] de Mistura
Netanyahu ‘invites’ Israeli-Arabs to leave Israel
Premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday publicly challenged Israeli Arabs protesting against a deadly police shooting in one of their villages to go and live in the West Bank and Gaza. Ahmed Tibi, a prominent Arab legislator, said the comments showed
Top diplomat says Turkey must counter Armenian genocide claims
Turkey needs to develop a strategy to counter pressure to acknowledge the World War I killings of Armenians as a genocide as the 100th anniversary of the massacres looms, a top Turkish diplomat said Monday. Altay Cengizer, director general for
Obama and Putin meet briefly
BEIJING: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met briefly Monday in Beijing on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit, a senior US official said. The two leaders, who have been engaged for months in a standoff
Taliban bombs kill at least 10 police in Afghanistan
Bombs exploded in three cities in Afghanistan on Monday killing at least 10 policemen, officials said, a day after a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself in Kabul’s police headquarters killing one person. The Taliban were ousted from power in 2001
Saudi Aramco commitments ‘not impacted by oil price moves’
ABU DHABI: A senior official at Saudi Aramco said that the recent fluctuations in oil prices would not threaten the company’s long-term supply commitments. “The recent volatility is not new..˝.(it is) in large (part) due to a weak global economy,”
U.S. jury deliberates fate of Palestinian bomb convict
A federal jury in Detroit is resuming deliberations on whether a Palestinian immigrant broke U.S. law when she failed to disclose her conviction and imprisonment in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh is charged with
Suicide bomber kills 48 students in Nigeria
POTISKUM, Nigeria: A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue attendant. Soldiers rushed
‘Little progress’ made in Iran nuclear talks
A round of nuclear talks between Iran, the United States and European Union ended in the Omani capital Sanaa on Monday with “little progress,” a senior Iranian official reportedly said. “After hours of talks we could make little progress,” the
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