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  Munawarunissa Nazneen Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — Mother, Baby & Kids Expo, one of the biggest family exhibitions in Saudi Arabia, concluded Friday on a high note. Thousands of visitors thronged the exhibition, which kicked off Tuesday at the Jeddah Center for Forums and Events.

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  From left: Syed Khawaja Viqaruddin, Syed Masood Ahmed, Aijaz Ahmed khan, and Khalil Ahmed present appreciation certificates to Dr. Ashfaq Maniyar, Dr. Mohd Hussain Maniyar, Dr. Iqbal Hussain Maniyar, Khaled Almaeena, and Shabbir Ahmed. — SG photo  Syeda Amtul Saudi Gazette 

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Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments has warned mosque imams and muezzins against assigning expatriate workers to either make the call for prayer (adhan) or lead the prayer. While stressing that such actions are in violation of regulations, the ministry said violators will be penaliz

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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), receives at his office in Riyadh Salhi Serakinci, Vice Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Northern Cyprus, and an accompanying delegation that included Ahmet Muhtar Gun, Turkish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. They discussed investment and economic issues. — Courtesy photo

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Ahmad Abdullah Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Police arrested late Saturday a man who allegedly murdered a woman and threw her corpse in a street in the Samer neighborhood of Jeddah a month ago. The suspect turned out to be a former teacher who was demoted to an administrative position by the Jeddah Education

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Abdulrahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – The Administrative Court in Jeddah convicted a secondary student of replicating official rubber stamps used by the Saudi Embassy in Sanaa and then using them to stamp a forged engineering degree supposedly from a Yemeni university. Dr. Saad Al-Malki, president

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Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam (KFSHD) will organize a multiple sclerosis awareness day on Thursday. The annual event, entitled “Better Together,” will be held at Khobar Carlton Moabed Hotel from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Organized by the hospital&rsqu

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Fatima Muhammad Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The main challenges faced by Saudi commercial arbitration include raising the number of arbitration opportunities for arbitrators and lawyers, said Prince Bandar Bin Salman, adviser to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and head of the Saudi Arbitration Team.

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Crown Prince Salman, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, receives in Jeddah on Sunday Speaker of Bosnian Parliament Bogo Liobic and an accompanying delegation. They discussed issues of common interest. — SPA

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Saeed Al-Khotani Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The National Committee for Tourism at the Council of Saudi Chambers approved on Sunday a proposal to establish a national center for the safety of rides and other facilities at entertainment resorts. The committee is composed of members of businessmen and invest

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Saudi Gazette report ABHA — Over two months ago, three Americans attacked Ali Al-Assaf, a Saudi student in the United States, after he left a restaurant in the state of Idaho. There was no clear reason why they jumped on him and left him with smashed fingers and scars all over his body. They even reportedly tried to kill h

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HOFUF — On the third day after his father’s death from a respiratory infection, Hussein Al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterward, says the 27-year-old Saudi, “I was almost dead”. Hussein, who had often visited his father’s bedside in his last days, was admitted to intensive care in a hospita

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Abdullah Al-Kiaid Al-Riyadh I recently attended, with a group of columnists and journalists, a gathering organized by the Directorate General to Combat Drugs in Riyadh. I have no doubt that before going to the function all of us knew about the hazards of smuggling, trafficking and use of narcotics but our fears about the fu

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Yousuf Al-Kuwaileet Al-Riyadh Personal loans extended by banks in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have crossed the SR1 trillion mark. This made headlines across the region recently. Even though this figure is equivalent to the annual budgets of a number of countries, this news may have gone largely unnotice

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Saudi Gazette report AL-KHOBAR — The Al-Khobar District Court found a Lebanese national and a Saudi guilty of brainwashing a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity and helping her leave the Kingdom with a false travel permit over a year ago, local media reported on Sunday. The Lebanese man was sentenced to s

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RIYADH — Three construction workers died when a building under construction collapsed in Riyadh’s King Abdullah neighborhood. Civil Defense rescuers removed the bodies from under the rubble. Riyadh Red Crescent spokesman Saeed Al-Ghamdi said another three workers sustained serious injuries and were rushed to nearby hospitals. 

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  HAIL — A couple and their son died in a tragic road accident in Khamis Mushayt. The father lost control over the steering wheel and crashed into concrete blocks, killing himself, his wife, and his son and seriously injuring his second son. Also, two young men died inside their car that overturned and caught fire in Jazan. Although firefighters rush

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NAJRAN — Passports Department officials in Najran arrested 413 illegal workers last month. Najran Passports Department spokesman Maj. Gen. Ali Al-Issa said all arrested workers would be deported. He confirmed security campaigns would continue until all illegal workers have been nabbed. 

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ABHA — Asir Police have opened an investigation after finding the charred body of a secondary school student in a dumpster. Ahmad Asiri left home Wednesday night to buy dinner and never came back. The next day, his father went to the nearby gas station and saw a group of people gathering around his son’s body. Asir Police spokesman Lt. Col. Abdullah

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Nadiah Al-Fawaz Okaz/Saudi Gazette ABHA — The Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Asir province has asked concerned authorities to ensure the safety of nine-year-old child Asma who was hospitalized with fractured ribs. Asma’s father has allegedly beaten her and fractured her ribs, and has also bea