Riyadh court acquits seven in terror case
RIYADH – A special court in Riyadh on Sunday acquitted seven suspected militants but convicted 13 others belonging to the same group, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The charges included...
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Farewell visit
Outgoing Indian Consul General Faiz Ahmad Kidwai holds talks with Saudi Gazette Editor-in-Chief Somayya Jabarti during a visit to the newspaper’s office on Sunday. Kidwai is leaving Jeddah...
View ArticleSea sports lure youngsters to Qammah on Farasan
Saudi Gazette report FARASAN — Sea life on Qammah Island in the Farasan archipelago has lured many children to learn diving and has become a source of entertainment for them. Children of...
View ArticleWoman returns home after 5 years in shelter
Saudi Gazette report TAIF — The social protection committee of the Taif governorate has succeeded in returning a woman to her family after she spent five years in a social protection home,...
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Focus on family
Emir of the Eastern Province Prince Saud Bin Naif opened the second family development conference organized by Prince Sultan Center for Science and Technology (Scitech) at King Fahd University for...
View Article80% of Madinah projects delayed
Saudi Gazette report MADINAH — Only 121 out of 656 development projects in Madinah are proceeding according to schedule, according to the Ada (performance) online government program to...
View ArticleThe magical number 8926
Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah 8926. This is not the number of an international flight carrying an important official with his family to spend their vacation on the beautiful shores of a foreign...
View ArticleUS law and an abusive Saudi
Salimah Al-Moshi Makkah A Saudi scholarship student beat up his wife. The intelligent woman telephoned 911 and the result was immediate: The husband was deported from the country and she was granted...
View ArticleBogus Zamzam seized in Makkah
Mohammed Sumaih Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Around 50,000 bottles of bogus Zamzam water were seized during the first quarter of this year, according to Makkah Municipality’s...
View ArticleIOC welcomes end to girls sport ban
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The International Olympic Committee on Sunday urged the Saudi government to push forward with moves to lift a ban on sports in state-run girls schools. The...
View ArticleMahram rule shatters dreams of orphan girls
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — Many Saudi orphan girls see no way to continue their higher studies by taking advantage of the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program due to their inability...
View ArticleShe faced adversities with courage
Awadh Bin Ghallah Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Saeedah Al-Amri has not found any happiness in her life. She has had a difficult childhood and exhausting adolescence. She had to strive to...
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630 mentally ill people on the loose in Makkah
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — The are more than 630 mentally ill people freely roaming the streets of the holy city, Makkah daily reported on Sunday quoting a report it had obtained from a...
View ArticleThree injured in accident
MAKKAH — Three people were seriously injured when two cars collided on the Jeddah-Makkah expressway. Three teams from the Saudi Red Crescent treated the injured before moving them to Al-Noor...
View ArticleWanted man arrested
BURAIDAH — Police arrested a man wanted in connection with a series of security-related offenses in Buraidah after a high-speed chase. Police ordered the driver to stop but he refused. During...
View ArticleFire at sponge factory doused
JEDDAH — The Civil Defense personnel put out a fire that started in a sponge factory south of Jeddah. The Civil Defense shut down the electricity from the area as a precautionary measure. No...
View ArticleDrug addict on a shooting rampage
AL-KHURMA — Police arrested a drug addict who was shooting at people on the street. The drug addict took his machine gun and started shooting at cars passing by in front of his house and...
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Saudi man held for possessing bullets
A Saudi man was arrested on Sunday for possessing over 22,000 bullets. According to the police, the citizen driving a jeep tried to avoid a checkpoint on the Madinah-Yanbu expressway. Police ordered...
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10 injured in road accident in Riyadh
Ten students from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University for women were injured when their minibus crashed into a pickup truck north of Riyadh. Seven teams from the Saudi Red Crescent arrived at...
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