ABHA — Nineteen pilgrims returning from Jeddah after performing Haj in Makkah sustained different injuries when a bus carrying them overturned at Saidat Al-Sawalha, Asir. Eight of the victims suffered serious injuries. Red Crescent paramedics and Ministry of Health teams took most of the victims to hospital. One case was treated on the spot,
Bus overturns, injuring 19 pilgrims
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Two brothers drown in valley floods
Jazan – Two brothers drowned when they were caught in floods at Masallah Valley, Ahad Al-Masarha governorate, on Friday. The pair was swimming in the valley when the floods swept them away. One of the siblings was in intermediate school and the other in primary school. The bodies were taken to Ahad Al-Masarha General Hospital, spokesman for
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Police find missing special needs girl
MADINAH — Police patrols found a 4-year-old special needs girl who got lost in Madinah’s Wuairah district on Friday night. Madinah Civil Defense spokesman Col. Khaled Mubarak Al-Jihani said the Civil Defense operations room received a telephone call that the girl had gone missing in a mountainous area. Rescue and paramedics teams went
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110 illegals arrested at deserted house
JAZAN — Abu Areesh police arrested 110 illegal immigrants of African nationalities in a local village after they were discovered using a deserted house as a temporary shelter. Police patrols monitored suspicious activity near the property and raided it. Police found 50 women and 60 men along with their belongings. They were arrested and hand
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Old man’s body found in house
HOFOUF, Al-Ahsa — Police found the decomposed body of a Saudi man in his 70s in Al-Uyoon town’s Al-Deerah district. One of the man’s tenants told police that his landlord did not answer his phone calls when he wanted to pay the rent, so he went to his house. When he discovered the man’s corpse he called police, who examined
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Pickpocket caught inside Grand Mosque
MAKKAH — Undercover security officers at the Grand Mosque caught a pickpocket of Asian nationality stealing from pilgrims red handed. He tried to escape but policemen managed to apprehend him. They found huge amounts of cash in various currencies, six bank cards and five wallets in his possession.
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Training body devotes over 78,000 manpower hours to pilgrims
Fatima Muhammad Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation has participated in the Haj season for the 11th year in a row by providing training hours for its students who worked during the pilgrimage by repairing cars for pilgrims, providing shaving services; and wor
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Saudi students in Turkey ‘lured to fight in conflict zones’
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Brokers and smugglers in Turkey continue to target Saudi youth who arrive in the country and convince them to fight in areas of conflict, according to the local Saudi ambassador.
Dr. Adel Mirdad told Al-Eqtisadiah: “Authorities in Turkey don’t hav
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Jack Welch and our partners abroad
Issa Al-Hilyan Okaz newspaper WHEN Jack Welch became CEO of General Electric in 1981, the US company's annual sales were about $25 billion. The company's market value was $12 billion. Its net profits were not more than $1.5 billion. When Welch left the company in 2000, its annual revenues were $125 billi
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Only Jeddah, Madinah airports to receive Umrah pilgrims
Saudi Gazette report
TAIF — The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has asked all airlines to transport Umrah pilgrims to either King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah or Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah.
A source told Al-Madinah daily t
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How can these people live?
Abid Khazandar Al-Riyadh newspaper HOW can these people live? By people I mean the citizens who are still alive after 60, the age of retirement. No doubt that when people retire, their incomes will greatly decrease. Some of them find themselves all of a sudden among the poorest people in this immensely r
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Woman struggles to get nationality for children
Saudi Gazette report
HOFOUF, Al-Ahsa — Um Maaz, a Saudi woman, has long forgotten the taste of happiness.
Living in a derelict house in Hofouf, Eastern Province, with her five children, she has been dealing with the triple threat of diseases, debts and the fruitless sea
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Divorces taking too long, say disgruntled wives
Saudi Gazette report
HOFOUF, Al-Ahsa — The divorce process is too convoluted, according to women looking to leave their husbands.
This is not only due to judicial procedures that must be followed and the necessity for both parties to attend hearings, but also the judici
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Manhole deaths: Municipality, NWC accused of shirking responsibility
Naheel Abdullah
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — A lawyers' group has condemned attempts by Jeddah Municipality and the National Water Company to shirk responsibility for the deaths of a father and son inside a city sewer on Thursday.
My Rights, a voluntary group of lawyers formed to educat
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334 reformed extremists return to old ways
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — A total of 334 extremists returned to their deviant beliefs after they had left a center set up to rehabilitate them, Makkah daily reported. A security source said that a total of 537 people were accommodated at the Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Counseling and
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Saudi women in Shoura ‘an important landmark’
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — One of the most important landmarks of the era of Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was allowing women to participate for the first time in the Shoura Council, said a researcher from King Faisal University in Abha, Al-Riyadh daily reported. Uhood Al
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Composite consular tour to Tabuk
JEDDAH — A team from the Consulate General of India, Jeddah would be visiting Tabuk on October 17 (Friday) to provide consular services (limited to attestation and passport services not being provided by the outsourced agencies) to the Indian nationals, from 0830 to 1130 hrs and 1700 to 2000 hrs at Hotel Al Sehaab (Tel. No. 014-4211534), acc
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Urdu Academy conducts ‘Let’s Learn Urdu’ program
Syeda Amtul Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Urdu Academy Jeddah recently organized a literary program dubbed “Aoa Urdu Seikhien (Let’s learn Urdu) here. This initiative to promote the Urdu language was a follow-up of their event in the first quarter for this year. The progra
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IFF reception for Telangana leader
Syeda Amtul Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The India Fraternity Forum (IFF) organized a reception in the honor of deputy Chief Minister of Indian state Telangana, Mohammed Mahmood Ali recently. Ali, in his speech, said “Telangana has great opportunities for the community and we (the
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TNRF set to expand Haj volunteer services
JEDDAH — The Telanaga State Indian volunteers provided services for the first time during this Haj season, by extending various services to the guests of God. Telangana NRI Forum has plans to expand their Haj services in the coming years by considering pilgrims’ various needs. “We would like to deploy at leas
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