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: November 2014
Malaysia Airlines sued by two boys over Flight 370
Two Malaysian teenage boys on Friday sued Malaysia Airlines and the government over the loss of their father on Flight 370, the first lawsuit filed by the family of a passenger of the jetliner that mysteriously disappeared eight months ago.
9 more sectors included in Saudization program
The Ministry of Labor has included nine new domains under the Nitaqat nationalization scheme, bringing the total number of sectors that are subject to Saudization to 58. Domains that have been subsumed under the program include disability centers, strategic partnership
Netanyahu urges restraint over Jerusalem clashes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged lawmakers to show “responsibility and restraint” towards recent escalating tensions between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Occupied Jerusalem, Reuters news agency reported. Palestinians fear an Israeli plan to alter the status quo of
Clashes are taking place between pro-government forces in Benghazi.
Pro-government Libyan forces on Saturday recaptured areas of second city Benghazi seized by Islamist militiamen, including army positions, military sources said as medics reported dozens killed in fighting. A two-week-old government-backed offensive has now killed 254 people, the medical sources
Ministry to help create 100,000 new jobs
The Ministry of Labor, in coordination with a number of specialized establishments in the food industry, will provide 100,000 jobs across the Kingdom in the forthcoming months. The jobs will pay employment seekers of both sexes a salary that will
Iranian elite Guards say U.S. ‘still enemy No. 1’
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard renewed its animosity towards the United States in a statement released on Saturday which described the U.S. as the “number one enemy of the Iranian nation.” The statement, carried by FARS news agency, was released to
Yemen rivals agree on government of technocrats
Yemen’s main political factions, including the Houthi rebels, signed a deal on Saturday tasking the president and prime minister to form a new government in an effort to defuse political tensions that have crippled the impoverished state. The accord was
Scores of Libyans pledge loyalty to ISIS chief in video
Dozens of residents of a town in eastern Libya have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants fighting in Syria and Iraq, according to a video and a resident. Around
Iran defends executions record, says most drug-related
Responding to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran, a senior official in the Islamic Republic is saying that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug smuggling. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council,
ISIS kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants have executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week in retaliation for resistance to the group’s territorial advances, a tribal leader and
Patel to star with Kidman in ‘Lion’
LOS ANGELES: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Dev Patel and Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman are set to star in ‘Lion’, a new drama produced by The Weinstein Co. The drama, based on the memoir ‘A Long Way Home’ by Saroo Brierley, follows
Mammy has her moment in ‘Gone with the Wind’ prequel
WASHINGTON: Nearly eight decades after she became one of the most famous supporting figures in American popular literature, Mammy has become the heroine of her own story in a prequel to “Gone with the Wind.” “Ruth’s Journey” by novelist and
Rescheduling motherhood: America’s new debate
She is 44 and single, but journalist Sarah still dreams of having a child, while TV producer Susanah, 38, is waiting for her younger boyfriend to be ready. To keep their hopes alive, these New York women have spent tens
Army official announces ouster of Burkina Faso’s president
Burkina Faso’s embattled President Blaise Compaore has been ousted, an army official claimed on Friday, Agence France-Presse reported. “Compaore is no longer in power,” Colonel Boureima Farta told tens of thousands of protesters who erupted in cheers in front of
Al-Qaeda drives moderate Syria rebels from northern bastion
Fighters from al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front have driven rebels of the Western-backed Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) from their bastion in the northwestern province of Idlib after 24 hours of combat, a monitor said Saturday. The defeat, in which some of
Yemenis protest against Houthi takeover of Sanaa
Demonstrators and activists in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa protested on Saturday against the Houthi rebel takeover of the city, demanding President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi put an end to the insurgency. Protestors chanted slogans against the Houthi rebels and Iran,
Islamist commander says 18 militiamen killed in Libya
An Islamist field commander says that 18 militiamen have been killed in an attack on a western Libyan town. The commander in the coalition of Islamist militias known as the Dawn of Libya said the rival Zintan militia, backed by
Iraqi Peshmerga fighters ‘cross into Kobane’
Some 150 Iraqi Peshmerga fighters left a Turkish military warehouse to head across the border and join the fight in the key border town of Kobane which is under assault by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. The
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