Fawziya Al-Harbi
Makkah Daily
Male and female citizens should have similar rights and should receive the same treatment from the authorities. Widows and divorcees who do not have a male guardian to accompany them suffer immensely when they visit government offices to make an inquiry or carry out a transaction.
Some go
How long should women suffer?
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Funny media exaggerations
Mohammed Al-Hassani
Okaz
My memory is full of media exaggerations that I read or heard about. For instance, I clearly remember journalists describing a dam under construction in our country to be the largest of its kind in the Middle East.
When some of these journalists visited other countries in our region, they found out
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Defiant contractor
A signboard erected by Jeddah Municipality strongly warns against dumping waste in this empty plot. In flagrant violation of municipal regulations and in defiance to this strong warning, written in clear Arabic, a truck has emptied its load of debris made up of red bricks around the signboard itself. — Makkah Daily
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Yanbu serial killer to be executed soon
Saudi Gazette report
YANBU — A man who raped and killed three Asian housemaids between 2007 and 2009 is to be beheaded soon and his corpse left in the execution area for a while, sources told Al-Hayat daily.
Awdah Salim, an expatriate who used fake identification documents while living in Yanbu, was dubbed o
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Saudis spend SR800m a year on plastic surgery
Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — Saudis last year spent about SR826 million on plastic surgery, Makkah Daily reported Monday. They said the Kingdom is second only to Egypt in terms of expenditure on such operations in the Middle East and North Africa region. Saudi plastic surgeon Dr. Jamal Al-Jum
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174,000 places available in 25 govt universities
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — The Ministry of Higher Education has announced that 174,202 university places are available for students of both genders beginning next year, Al-Madinah daily reported.
A report issued by the ministry’s statistics center stated the 25 government universities have completed
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Saudi gets death sentence in five-minute trial in Iraq
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — A Saudi man who illegally crossed into Iraqi territory in 2006 was recently sentenced to death in Iraq following a trial that took only five minutes, Al-Hayat daily reported.
Jarallah Al-Tamimi left his home town of Al-Mathnab, Qassim in 2006 after he told his family that he wan
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Recruitment of house workers from Vietnam, Nepal before Haj
Nawaf Affat
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — The Kingdom will soon start recruiting housemaids from Vietnam and Nepal, according to Deputy Labor Minister Mofarej Al-Haqbani.“Agreements to this effect will be signed with the two countries before the Haj season in October,” he told Okaz/Saudi Ga
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Street brawl ends in death of Saudi
JEDDAH — A Saudi died after being stabbed in the chest in a brawl between four African nationals and six Saudis. Makkah Police spokesman Lt. Col. Ati Al-Qurashi said the brawl took place inside a house in Jeddah’s Al-Faisaliah district and that everyone involved in the violence were detained. He said investigations are still under way.
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Motorist killed, 9 hurt in Khulais accident
AL-KAMEL, Makkah — One man was killed and nine others injured when their car overturned on Khulais-Kamil Road. Makkah Red Crescent spokesman Ali Al-Ghamdi said a citizen notified emergency services of the accident and a number of ambulances were dispatched to the site, including an air ambulance. Al-Ghamdi said paramedics found the vic
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Man found dead at home, suicide suspected
TABUK — Security bodies are investigating the death of a 32-year-old man who was found dead in his family’s house in the Al-Senaiyah neighborhood. Tabuk Police spokesman Lt. Col. Khalid Al-Ghabban said the Red Crescent notified police of the incident and forensics teams attended the house to investigate the case. They found the death w
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Expat killed in ditch collapse
ABHA — An Asian national was killed as a result of the collapse of a ditch prepared for connecting water pipes to a house in the Marbah area. Asir Civil Defense spokesman Col. Mohammad Al-Asmi said rescue teams were dispatched to the site and recovered the body, which was buried under the sand. He added the case was referred to concern
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Yemeni worker’s body recovered from fuel tank
AL-DAIR, Jazan — Civil Defense teams have recovered the body of a Yemeni worker from the fuel tank of a petrol station here. Witnesses said the worker went into the tank to perform required maintenance without wearing any protective equipment, causing him to suffocate from the fumes inside and lose consciousness. He remained in the tank for
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Missing man’s body found in desert
DAMMAM — Police found the body of a missing man next to his car, which was found stuck in the sand at a desert area east of Melaijah on Monday. Eastern Province police acting spokesman Cap. Abdulaziz Al-Harbi said Al-Neairiyah police station received a report that Mohammad Al-Hajri, in his 70s, had been missing for three days. Field teams we
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Woman dies aboard flight bound for Cairo
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — An Egyptian woman passenger died aboard a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Jeddah to Cairo on Monday just before landing when she developed complications resulting from her hepatic fibrosis condition.
Airport sources in Cairo said the control tower was notified b
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‘Intensive care on wheels’ launched
TAIF — The Health Affairs Directorate in Taif has launched a new intensive care ambulance service to provide urgent medical services that could save patients’ lives. The head of the emergency and crisis management department at the directorate, Saeed Al-Zahrani, said the new ambulance is equipped with all medical equipment found in int
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Club to follow up women's issues
TAIF — A Saudi woman has established, with the help of a number of female Shariah and law students, a judicial club to follow up issues facing women, including house workers, housewives or children at risk of abuse. The woman behind the idea, Salma Al-Talhi, said the club aims to follow up relevant cases at courts and educate society of thei
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Ambulance driver faces probe
BURAIDAH — Qassim Health Affairs has referred an ambulance driver and a shift supervisor at King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Buraidah to investigation authorities for allegedly neglecting their duties. The directorate said a critically ill patient in the hospital required transportation to King Saud Medical City in Riyadh but the ambulance d
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Justice Ministry to link up with SAMA
RIYADH — The Ministry of Justice has begun a project to establish an electronic link with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to ensure court sentences are being implemented. Ministry of Justice spokesman Fahd Al-Bakran said the project is due to be launched next month to allow for the speedy execution of courts sentences, especially in
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Saudi executed for torturing toddler son to death in Jouf
Saudi Gazette report
SAKAKA — A Saudi man was beheaded in the northern Al-Jouf province Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the Interior Ministry announced.
Maqbul Bin Madi Al-Sharari hit his son Mohammed "repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head an
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