BURAIDAH — An elderly woman was killed and her two grandchildren seriously injured when a speeding car ran over them at the Al-Busairiyah neighborhood of Buraidah on Sunday. Red Crescent paramedics arrived shortly after the accident and rushed the injured to a nearby hospital. The grandmother was pronounced dead upon arrival, while her two grandchil
Grandmother, 2 kids run over by speeding car
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Motorist found dead in parked car
TAIF — Police opened an investigation after a man in his 40s was found dead inside his car Sunday, according to Makkah Region Police spokesman Lt. Col. Ati Al-Qurashi. A passerby spotted the man inside the car and called the police after he got suspicious. Preliminary investigations indicate the man died of natural causes. However, a postmortem examinatio
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Gang of pickpockets busted in Makkah
MAKKAH — An Asian gang robbing Umrah performers of their possessions inside the Grand Mosque has been arrested, said Makkah Region Police spokesman Lt. Col. Ati Al-Qurashi. Secret agents spotted several Asian men stealing possession of visitors to the Grand Mosque. The pickpockets were quick in the act and the visitors did not even notice their poss
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Man shoots relative, turns in to police
TABUK — A man opened fire on a relative and wounded him in the leg following a family dispute, according to Tabuk Police spokesman Lt. Col. Khalid Al-Ghabban. The two men were sitting together at the victim’s home when they scuffled after a heated argument turned sour. The furious visitor left the house but came back shortly after with a gun i
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Civil Defense contains Jeddah warehouse fire
JEDDAH — A huge fire broke out in a warehouse at the Al-Hindawiyah district of Jeddah Sunday. Lt. Col. Waleed Abu Shanab, acting spokesman for Makkah Region Civil Defense, said 17 firefighting units were sent to contain the fire. By the time firefighters reached the scene, the fire had ripped through goods and containers stored in the warehouse. The firem
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Bad example of a Saudi student
Abdo Khal
Okaz
I do not understand why our media has not given enough attention to the issue of the Saudi scholarship student who recently smashed Buddhist statutes at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo.
There is no point in asking people not to blow up the issue "because the student is our son and is part of our society."
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25% marriages between Saudi men and expat women end in divorce
Saudi Gazette report
DAMMAM — Nearly 25 percent of marriages between Saudi men and expatriate women ended in divorce last year, Alsharq newspaper said in a recent report.
In 2013, 2,488 Saudi men married expatriate women and 612 of these marriages ended in divorce. Syrians topped the list of foreign women wh
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Your iftar is on us ...
The National Commercial Bank is planning to distribute 90,000 iftar meals by the end of Ramadan all over the Kingdom. More than 750 young men as well as bank employees and their family members volunteered to distribute the meals to the needy. The picture shows young men, holding meal boxes and placards reading: “Stop, your iftar is on us,” at an intersection in Jedd
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Two Saudi universities forge partnership with French group
JEDDAH — INSEEC, a leading French group in private education, has signed partnership agreements with two Saudi universities.
The deals, with the University of Business and Technology (UBT) in Jeddah and Al-Yamamah University in Riyadh, aim to strengthen inter-institution exchanges, create new programs and enable cooperation between differen
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Bad example of a Saudi student
Abdo Khal
Okaz
I do not understand why our media has not given enough attention to the issue of the Saudi scholarship student who recently smashed Buddhist statutes at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo.
There is no point in asking people not to blow up the issue "because the student is our son and is part of our society."
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Don’t give surety to bail out anyone
Khaled Al-Suhail
Al-Eqtisadiah
I have been scared about the police since I was a child and I recall one situation where I had to enter a police station either as a complainant or defendant.
One weekend, a friend called and asked me to help secure the release of his insolvent friend by signing an undertaking that he would not
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Haj Ministry ‘will not relax Umrah visa rules’
Saudi Gazette report
MAKKAH — The Haj Ministry has turned down requests by a number of Haj and Umrah service provider companies to relax its conditions to grant Umrah visas.
The ministry reiterated that the terms and conditions for giving out such visas would not change.
Under these conditions,
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Labor office breaks labor law
An expatriate laborer cleans the courtyard of the labor office in Dammam at noon. According to the law, workers should not be made to work under the sun from 12 noon to 3 p.m. to protect them from sunstrokes and heat exhaustion, especially in peak summer. — Courtesy Makkah daily
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Gas station workers risk lung diseases
Adel Abdulrahman
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – A number of gas station workers have complained that they have developed chronic shortness of breath and several lung diseases because of the nature of their work.
They said their salaries are low compared to the risks they face.
Najeeb, a Ban
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Islamic foreign ministers to discuss flare-up in Palestine
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH – The executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene Thursday an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers here to discuss the worsening situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem.
OIC Secretary-General Iyad Ameen
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Uyayna village boasts of a rich Islamic tradition
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Uyayna is an ancient village located about 30 km northwest of Riyadh. Situated inside the narrow, dry river-bed of Wadi Hanifa, Uyayna is part of the Diriya governorate. In Islamic history, Uyayna has a unique place, according to a report in Al-Mad
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Madinah residents nostalgic for the booms of Ramadan cannon
Abdulhadi Al-Soayan Okaz/Saudi Gazette MADINAH — More than 20 years have been passed since residents of Madinah last heard the sound of a Ramadan cannon. The cannon, which was once an important part of life in Madinah, was used to notify the city's residents of the time to end the day&
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OIC blasts attack on border post
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — The OIC secretary-general condemned terrorist attacks that targeted a Saudi security patrol at the Wadia crossing on the Yemen border and a government building in Sharoura, which resulted in the deaths of four Saudi security men.
Madani vowed OIC’s solidarity with the Kingd
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Makkah's tunnel network on point
MAKKAH — The municipality in the holy city has instructed maintenance teams to conduct ongoing maintenance to the 60 tunnels in the city to make sure they run perfectly, according to Khalid Al-Haij, undersecretary for construction and projects. The teams will inspect lights, alarm systems, electric systems, ventilation and all safety equipment to make sur
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4 terror suspects get jail terms, travel ban
JEDDAH – The Special Criminal Court in Jeddah on Monday sentenced four terror suspects to jail terms ranging from two to five-and-a-half years and travel bans for similar periods after serving their prison terms. One of the defendants was sentenced in absentia. The charges against the men included fabricating lies about the country’s rulers, support
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