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Drug dealer busted in Makkah

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MAKKAH — Secret police in Makkah succeeded in busting a drug dealer in the Al-Ghasala neighborhood carrying more than 600 drug pills. According to police sources, the drug dealer was holding his family hostage inside the apartment when they received the call for help.  Police moved to the location and managed to subdue and arrest the

Suspected car thieves arrested

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JEDDAH — A secret police unit in Jeddah arrested two men accused of trying to steal a car in Al-Aziziyah district. Police grew suspicious of the pair when they were spotted next to a parked car. When police moved in to question them, they escaped from the neighborhood using another stolen car.  On their way they crashed into a parked

Car crash kills driver, injures 5 teachers

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TAIF — An Egyptian driver was killed and five teachers injured when their minivan collided with a car.  Traffic police and ambulances arrived at the location and transferred all the injured to a nearby hospital. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.

Emergency landing at Tabuk airport

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TABUK — An Oman Air plane made an emergency landing at Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk.  Officials at the airport received a request to make the landing when the front window of the aircraft got scratched. The plane was carrying 35 passengers on its way from Oman to Cyprus. No one was reported injured.

Pilgrim falls to death from high-rise

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MAKKAH — Police are currently investigating the case of a pilgrim and his son who fell from a high-rise building in Makkah.  The pilgrim and his son, Indonesian nationals, were on the sixth floor when they got locked inside the room. After they failed to open the door, they tried to come down from the window using their ihrams (the t

30 girls rescued from burning bus

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ABHA — Thirty girls were rescued from a fire that started early Wednesday in a bus in Abha. The driver noticed smoke coming from the back of the vehicle. He parked the bus on the side of the road in a safe place and immediately evacuated all students safely. The Civil Defense arrived at the location and managed to control the fire before it spread. No one

Indian Cultural Society begins its book drive

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JEDDAH — Indian Cultural Society, Jeddah requests all Indian International School Jeddah (IISJ) parents to donate their children’s school books to the society, members of which distribute the books to the poor and needy students studying in IISJ. According to Arif Quraishi, president of the society, parents can contact Dr. Dilshad Sha

AUC Fun Lab makes physics enjoyable

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Shahd Alhamdan Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Numbers, letters, symbols, and mind-boggling equations adorn the whiteboards of classes as students try to understand the concepts of physics. For some students studying physics is a piece of cake, some fret and struggle but manage to find a way to learn it it wh

NOSH: Redefining ideas, one dress at a time

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Mariam Nihal Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The vision of Saudi artists has elevated the art scene internationally. Upcoming female Saudi designers have highlighted the fashion industry’s progress at a global level and have been applauded at every avenue. Winner of “Best Fashion Designer in Saudi&

IVM a promising new fertility treatment

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Amal Al-Sibai Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – For couples having difficulty conceiving, a ray of hope has appeared as physicians have recently developed an alternative to the conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF) method. The new procedure is called in-vitro maturation (IVM) and it differs from IVF as in IVM the women&rsq

Agony of traveling on the Sahel Road

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Saudi Gazette report TABUK — Some people consider traveling by land a pleasure while others find it a complete torture. A single trip will show you which one it is. Whatever the trip might turn out to be, you will find along the road isolated villages and poor services and a lack of interest

Indian groups collecting used textbooks

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DAMMAM — The Hyderabad Association and India Fraternity Forum of Dammam have taken the initiative to recycle schoolbooks. They have already started collecting books from school students to distribute among the needy students. The organization’s vice president for public relations Shuja Sheriff has requested all teachers

JIC honors 116 graduates of Maaden training program

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Sultan Al-Sughayer Saudi Gazette JUBAIL — The Jubail Industrial College (JIC) and Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) honored the second batch of graduates who have completed the Maaden Basic Operations Training Program at the Al-Huwaylat Theater. A total of 116 trainees who underwent 34 weeks of co

Eastern Province seafronts gear up to receive picnickers

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A flower show that kicked off at King Abdullah Park on Dammam beach attracted a large number of families. Daifallah Al-Otaibi, mayor of the Eastern Province, opened the show Wednesday evening. — SPA Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — The Eastern Province Governorate has started mak

Brain-dead helps save seven lives

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Abdullah Al-Dani and Maryam Al-Sagheer Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH/RIYADH — A brain-dead patient at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah has helped save the lives of seven patients thanks to the timely decision to donate his organs. One of the patients is a child who had been suffering from rena

Male patients shun ‘all-female’ diabetes center in Madinah

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Saad Al-Harbi Okaz/Saudi Gazette MADINAH — Male diabetes sufferers avoid visiting the Prince Abdulaziz Bin Majed Diabetes Center because the center staff are all women, said patients. Men feel uncomfortable explaining their conditions to women doctors, they said. Patients were also repo

Father blames Jazan hospital for death of 3-month-old baby

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Dhaifa Othman Okaz/Saudi Gazette JAZAN — A Saudi has accused Jazan General Hospital of causing the death of his three-month-old baby following a chest infection. Sami Aqili said his baby, Amjad, had a chest infection and fever over a week ago and had to be taken to hospital. The doctor gave him an ant

Students clean Jazan beach

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University students take part in a cleanup drive on Jazan beach Thursday. — SPA

Maid available for SR100,000!

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Jameel Al-Bluwi Al-Riyadh Yesterday our maid escaped from home. This was not because we are bad people and not because we were forcing her to work for long hours, but because there is a black market that was promising her quick money. This is a scenario that is repeated daily with many citizens. The problem of maids

Hold on, Mr. Ambassador

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Hamoud Abu Talib Okaz The Ethiopian ambassador has the right to sympathize with the Ethiopian community living in the Kingdom, to defend them and to do what is within his power to protect their rights. In an interview published in Al-Hayat daily on Wednesday, he mixed two different issues. The first one dealt with legal Eth
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