RIYADH – A special court in Riyadh on Sunday acquitted seven suspected militants but convicted 13 others belonging to the same group, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The charges included raising huge amounts of money to support fighters in conflict zones in neighboring countries. They were also accused of using charitable organizations as
Riyadh court acquits seven in terror case
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Commercial registrations of business establishments across KSA
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Farewell visit
Outgoing Indian Consul General Faiz Ahmad Kidwai holds talks with Saudi Gazette Editor-in-Chief Somayya Jabarti during a visit to the newspaper’s office on Sunday. Kidwai is leaving Jeddah at the end of his tenure in the Kingdom. — SG photo
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Sea sports lure youngsters to Qammah on Farasan
Saudi Gazette report
FARASAN — Sea life on Qammah Island in the Farasan archipelago has lured many children to learn diving and has become a source of entertainment for them.
Children of various ages have become talented in diving, which is considered one of the oldest and most popular sports on the island.
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Woman returns home after 5 years in shelter
Saudi Gazette report
TAIF — The social protection committee of the Taif governorate has succeeded in returning a woman to her family after she spent five years in a social protection home, Al-Hayat daily reported.
The woman and her sister were admitted to the home after being abused by their family.
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Focus on family
Emir of the Eastern Province Prince Saud Bin Naif opened the second family development conference organized by Prince Sultan Center for Science and Technology (Scitech) at King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals on Sunday. The three-day conference will discuss ways and means of preserving family bonds through the spread of awareness and knowledge. Six sociologists and e
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80% of Madinah projects delayed
Saudi Gazette report
MADINAH — Only 121 out of 656 development projects in Madinah are proceeding according to schedule, according to the Ada (performance) online government program to monitor development schemes.
The program, implemented as part of the vision of Madinah Emir Prince Faisal Bin Salman for the
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The magical number 8926
Abdullah Al-Jamili
Al-Madinah
8926. This is not the number of an international flight carrying an important official with his family to spend their vacation on the beautiful shores of a foreign country. It is not a number of a long-awaited decision by the Shoura Council to put an end to the predicament of pensioners.
This n
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US law and an abusive Saudi
Salimah Al-Moshi
Makkah
A Saudi scholarship student beat up his wife. The intelligent woman telephoned 911 and the result was immediate: The husband was deported from the country and she was granted residency, provided with a home, free education for her children and a US passport.
The woman did not have to wait for her tur
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Bogus Zamzam seized in Makkah
Mohammed Sumaih
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — Around 50,000 bottles of bogus Zamzam water were seized during the first quarter of this year, according to Makkah Municipality’s environmental health department.
Fahd Al-Asiri, head of the department's field teams, said the bottles were found with a n
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IOC welcomes end to girls sport ban
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — The International Olympic Committee on Sunday urged the Saudi government to push forward with moves to lift a ban on sports in state-run girls schools.
The Kingdom's Shoura Council last week recommended an end to the ban, which was relaxed in private schools last year.
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Mahram rule shatters dreams of orphan girls
Saudi Gazette report
MAKKAH — Many Saudi orphan girls see no way to continue their higher studies by taking advantage of the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program due to their inability to meet the condition of mahram (male guardian). Some of them resort to marriage as the only way in front of them to overcome this hur
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She faced adversities with courage
Awadh Bin Ghallah
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — Saeedah Al-Amri has not found any happiness in her life. She has had a difficult childhood and exhausting adolescence.
She had to strive to support herself and provide for her family, leaving her no time to enjoy life's pleasures.
However, s
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630 mentally ill people on the loose in Makkah
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — The are more than 630 mentally ill people freely roaming the streets of the holy city, Makkah daily reported on Sunday quoting a report it had obtained from a psychiatric source. According to the report, an average of 70 mentally ill people visit the mental health center in the
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Three injured in accident
MAKKAH — Three people were seriously injured when two cars collided on the Jeddah-Makkah expressway. Three teams from the Saudi Red Crescent treated the injured before moving them to Al-Noor Hospital. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.
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Wanted man arrested
BURAIDAH — Police arrested a man wanted in connection with a series of security-related offenses in Buraidah after a high-speed chase. Police ordered the driver to stop but he refused. During the chase the car crashed into an oncoming police car and overturned in the middle of the road. When officers arrested the driver and the passenger, they found that
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Fire at sponge factory doused
JEDDAH — The Civil Defense personnel put out a fire that started in a sponge factory south of Jeddah. The Civil Defense shut down the electricity from the area as a precautionary measure. No one was injured and the cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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Drug addict on a shooting rampage
AL-KHURMA — Police arrested a drug addict who was shooting at people on the street. The drug addict took his machine gun and started shooting at cars passing by in front of his house and other pedestrians. One man was seriously injured and many cars were damaged. Police shut down the road leading to the house, surrounded the area and managed through negot
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Saudi man held for possessing bullets
A Saudi man was arrested on Sunday for possessing over 22,000 bullets. According to the police, the citizen driving a jeep tried to avoid a checkpoint on the Madinah-Yanbu expressway. Police ordered the man to stop and when they searched the car they found the ammunition hidden inside. The bullets were seized and the man was transferred to a police station for further questioni
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10 injured in road accident in Riyadh
Ten students from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University for women were injured when their minibus crashed into a pickup truck north of Riyadh. Seven teams from the Saudi Red Crescent arrived at the location and transferred the injured to Prince Salman Hospital, University Hospital and King Saud Medical City. One of the students was in a critical condition while four other
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