JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Wednesday ordered the distribution of SR1.12 billion in emergency aid among the Kingdom’s poor to support them during the fasting month of Ramadan and the Eid Al-Fitr festival. The number of Saudi families living in extreme poverty is estimated at 35,000, or 1.63 percent of the total Saudi population. They live on less than SR1,700 a month.
JEDDAH: Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif met with Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at his office here Tuesday and highlighted Saudi Arabia’s efforts to send relief for Pakistan’s flood victims.
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday that a deadly Hamas attack in the West Bank “is not going to stop us” in the quest for Middle East peace as he opened a Washington summit to relaunch face-to-face Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
In the 41 years since Muammar Qaddafi seized power in Libya, he has earned himself a reputation for political views that range from the eccentric to the downright unpalatable and for a mercurial behavior to go with them. That is still very much the case. This past week he has been in Rome as the guest of another political leader often accused of holding unacceptable political views, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
NOWADAYS, or at any point in the near future, the Saudi religious institution is expected to face a big challenge: Whether to continue with its usual solemnity and prestige gained over the past decades or to lose much of its former credibility, acceptance and influence over Saudi citizens. This discussion of such a sensitive and critical issue requires an objective and systematic methodology by identifying the problem, its reasons, and exploring potential solutions.
THIS IS MORE THAN INHUMAN AND DESERVES RETRIBUTION BY GOD AND MAN BOTH.
R KARUNARATNE at Sep 2, 2010 21:40
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ABO ABDALAH at Sep 2, 2010 21:40
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