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Stay away from Lebanon, 3 Gulf states urge citizens
DUBAI — Three Gulf states — Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — Saturday urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighboring Syria has unsettled areas ...
Time to focus on a political transition in Syria: G8
CAMP DAVID, Maryland — US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the G8 — which includes Russia — agreed that the political process in Syria should move forward “in a more timely fashion.”“We had a discussion about Syria, we all ...
Trial of 16 terror suspects begins
By Ahmed AbdullahSaudi GazetteJEDDAH — The trial of 16 suspected Al-Qaeda members, accused of planning to assassinate a high-ranking government official, plotting attacks on senior government officials and security personnel in the south of the Kingdom and possessing unauthorized weapons, began ...
Experts discuss scope of Islamic finance services
By Mushtak ParkerSaudi GazetteISTANBUL — At the 9th Annual Summit of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) held in Istanbul recently and hosted for the first time by the Central Bank of Turkey, emerging countries for once emerged on a higher ...
Sultan attends G20 tourism ministers’ meeting in Mexico
RIYADH — Tourism ministers from G20 nations concluded the fourth G20 Ministers of Tourism Meeting in Mexico Saturday and met with President of Mexico and the current Chairman of G20 Felipe Calderon.Prince Sultan Bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for ...
Disabled to get 3,000 free cars
JEDDAH — The Ministry of Social Affairs has signed a SR132 million contract with Al-Jomiah Company to import 3000 cars specially manufactured for people with special needs.Dr. Abdullah Al-Yusuf, an official at the Ministry of Social Affairs, announced the details of the ...
Several Riyadh buildings are aging: Official
RIYADH — Khaled Al-Tayyash, secretary general of the Saudi Society for Architectural Sciences, has warned that many of the aging buildings in the Old Ministries District, which serves as the hub for most the state’s ministries, are obsolete or are ...
DAH to award Kingdom’s first fashion design degree to 22 girls
JEDDAH — For the first time in its history, the Jeddah-based Dar Al-Hekma College will award the Kingdom’s first fashion design bachelor’s degrees to 22 lucky girls.“Students will have to complete four years before being awarded the degree,” Dr. Suhair Al-Qurashi ...
Two die of suffocation in Jeddah sewage tank
By Abdul Rahman Al-AliSaudi GazetteJEDDAH — Two men died of asphyxiation inside a sewage tank in south Jeddah on Friday. A rescue team comprised of divers and a forensic doctor from Jeddah Civil Defense rushed to the scene of the accident ...
Who is responsible for runaway farm workers?
By Awad Al-KhedadiSaudi GazetteTAIF — Three government agencies in Taif — the Passports Department, Labor Office and a branch of the Ministry of Agriculture — have refused to receive reports from employers on runaway workers under the pretext that the issue ...
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