Abdullah Al-Harthi
Okaz
SHORTLY before sunrise, an ear-piercing shriek of a seven-year-old child came from the bathroom. The child’s parents, who were getting ready for work, ran to the bathroom fearing something bad had happened to their daughter.
To their relief, when they opened the door, they learned that s
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Espionage network, a fabrication?
Khaled Al-Sulaiman
Okaz
DURING his sermon at a mosque in the eastern city of Qatif last Friday, Sheikh Hassan Al-Saffar (a renowned Saudi Shiite scholar) dismissed the uncovering of an espionage network consisting of 16 Saudis, an Iranian and a Lebanese as sheer fabrication aimed at distracting people and settling accounts.
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Owner ordered to repaint house that resembled Ka’aba
Abdulhadi Al-Suwaya Okaz/Saudi Gazette MADINAH — The owner of a house in Madinah that was designed to resemble the Holy Ka’aba has been ordered to repaint the building. The house owner designed and painted his house in Al-Mestarah neighborhood of Madinah to resemble the holy structure and
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Dairy producers deny deal to increase prices
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Saudi milk producing companies have strongly denied allegations that they have agreed among themselves to increase dairy prices from this summer despite rising production costs, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Chairman of the national committee for milk produce
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Makkah Award for Excellence distributed
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — Makkah Emir Prince Khaled Al-Faisal honored winners of the 5th Makkah Award for Excellence at a ceremony held at Jeddah Hilton Tuesday night. During the ceremony, the Emir watched a documentary on the award and its accomplishments over the past five years. He then
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Brothers wounded in Abha shootout
ABHA — Two brothers engaged in a shootout and wounded each other during a violent argument. They were taken to hospital for treatment and police were contacted. Asir police spokesman Lt. Col. Abdullah Sha’than said the brothers had an altercation that developed into an exchange of gunfire. Police are still questioning them to find out
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Suspect in boy’s murder arrested
ABHA — Khamis Mushayt police have arrested a man who allegedly killed a boy and dumped his body in a valley. A Saudi discovered the corpse of the eight-year-old boy lying in a valley and contacted the police. Forensic experts collected evidence from the scene.
Asir police director Maj. Gen. Abdullah Al-Ahmadi said the experts
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Maid investigated for suicide attempt
HAFR AL-BATIN — Police in Hafr Al-Batin are investigating an African housemaid who tried to take her own life inside her employer’s house. Eastern Province police spokesman Lt. Col. Ziyad Al-Ruqaiti said the employer called police after he got suspicious of his housemaid’s activities. The employer found a rope inside her room and
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Lashes for sexually harassing nurse
ABHA — An Asian man was whipped by the members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai’a) in public after he tried to sexually harass a nurse. The man and the nurse work for Sabt Al-Alaya General Hospital. The man was flogged in the open area of the hospital’s premises. Representatives from the c
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Accident kills bride, 5 family members
DAMMAM — A woman who was on her way to get married died with her five family members in a tragic road accident when their car was hit by a truck. Civil Defense rescue teams and ambulances rushed to the scene to save the victims but they had already died. The bodies were taken to a nearby hospital.
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95 detained over un-Islamic rituals
MAKKAH — Ninety-five Asians were arrested after passport police raided several locations in Makkah and found the suspects engaging in rituals that appeared to be against Islam. Two buildings at Sitteen Street and another at Al-Shumaisi neighborhood were raided and the alleged ringleader, an old Asian woman, together with Asian men and women,
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200 children participate in workshop on sexual abuse
Saleh Fareed Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — A child sexual abuse awareness and prevention workshop was conducted successfuly in Jeddah on Wednesday to educate 200 children. Empowering children to be safe, strong and free was the main theme of the workshop organized by the Jeddah-based Fam
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50 global varsities vie for TVTC contracts
Majed Al-Mufadhali
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Over 50 universities around the world are competing with each other to sign agreements with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) to train 250,000 male and female job seekers from all the Kingdom’s regions over the next three years.
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Air show in Al-Khobar
Families watch an air show by the Royal Saudi Air Force Hawks during the fifth national festival of Science and Technology (Scitech) at Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Center for Science and Technology in Al-Khobar Thursday. — SG photo by Sultan Al-Sughair
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Patients complain about conditions at EP clinic
Saudi Gazette report
DAMMAM — Several local residents have complained about the abysmal condition of a government health clinic in the Eastern Province.
The polyclinic, located in Ohud district in the western quarter of Dammam, is operating in a dilapidated building, and lacks hygiene an
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Saudi thobe revival encourages youths into entering trade
Izzeddin Ahmed
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The profession of tailoring has revived thanks to Saudi youths attracted to stitching their own thobes.
Many people believed that the traditional tailoring had died or on its way to die when a number of young Saudi designers stepped in and wer
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Ensure fire safety, save life and property
Amal Al-Sibai Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Civil Defense Department and repeated media reports continue to claim that the majority of families in Saudi society lack fire safety awareness. Is this merely an allegation or is it closer to the truth than most of us would like to belie
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Reading will be joyful and fun
Syeda Amtul Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — To create awareness of reading among Saudi and Arab youth and to generate a sense of connection between the Arab child and the books in a rich atmosphere of fun and creative innovation, “Kadi & Ramadi (K&R),” a publishing h
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Health officials clear medicine shipment ‘without permission’
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Copies of official letters exchanged between medical supplies officials at Najran and Jeddah Health Affairs directorates revealed they approved the clearance of a shipment of medicines lying at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport without seeking approval from thei
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Applying Saudization law at vegetable market ‘tough’
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — It is difficult to control foreign workers at the fruit and vegetable market who keep violating Saudization laws that ban them from working there, according to the director of markets at the Riyadh municipality.“Although inspection rounds have been launched on a fo
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