JEDDAH: Prince Khaled bin Sultan, assistant minister of defense and aviation for military affairs, cast doubts on the veracity of news reports on several Yemeni websites that six wounded Saudi soldiers
MINA: The Kingdom has declared this Haj season 2009 to be wholly free from infectious and communicable diseases, Health Minister Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said on Sunday. “Based on the decision of... Full Story
MINA: Many pilgrims walked an average distance of 45 km in the five days of the pilgrimage. Apart from the spiritual benefits, there are material ones as well. It is a sure way to burn calories. The... Full Story
MINA: Tens of African women have been scavenging garbage in the holy sites competing with the cleaners who have been provided by the Makkah municipality to do the job. The women scavengers look for
MINA: With the continuous noise, floodlights that make night look like day and numerous movements between the holy sites, pilgrims hardly had enough time to sleep. The luckiest of them may have had
MINA: Monday may be the final day of the pilgrimage, but try telling that to the hundreds of thousands of Hajis who used Sunday as an opportunity to finish stoning the Satan on the Jamrat Bridge before
RIYADH: The governmental Human Rights Commission (HRC) intervened on two occasions to force men to send their children to school. Both cases took place in the Eastern Province and involved divorces
MINA: Over 150 young Saudi barbers, trained by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) have been putting their skills into effect in Mina. They started implementing the program for
RIYADH: The normal situation when it comes to labor is that Saudis hire foreigners. But in an unusual twist at the fruit market in Riyadh’s southern Aziziyah district, a Saudi laborer works for a Bangladeshi
MAKKAH: Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif, who is also the chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, complimented the pilgrims and the security personnel for making this year’s... Full Story
JEDDAH: Search, rescue and recovery operations in Jeddah’s flood-ravaged areas continued on Sunday with officials reducing the death toll reported on Saturday from 106 to 105. Following an order
JEDDAH: Jeddah’s Al-Ruwais district is probably best known elsewhere because it was the location of the December 2004 attacks on the US Consulate. Some may know it as the home to the city’s largest... Full Story
