Iraq commutes Saudi inmate’s death sentence
Saudi Gazette report AMMAN — An Iraqi court has commuted the death sentence against one of the five Saudi prisoners in the country to life imprisonment, Al-Hayat...
View ArticleA reader awaits reply
Khalaf Al-Harbi Okaz I received a long letter from a reader named Abdulaziz Mohammed. Excerpted, the letter reads as follows: “We see projects cutting up the streets of...
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Most pharmacists in KSA do not ask for prescriptions: Study
Saudi Gazette report JAZAN — Saudi authorities have failed in their efforts to prevent pharmacists from dispensing medication to patients without prescriptions, a new study shows....
View ArticleSpousal allowance is a life-saver, say scholarship students
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The Council of Minister has approved an allowance for women who accompany husbands studying abroad. Students who are married to non-Saudi women are...
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Prince Khaled to start regional inspection tour Sunday
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — Makkah Emir Prince Khaled Al-Faisal will embark on his sixth annual inspection tour of the region’s governorates on Sunday. The...
View Article5 bootleggers nabbed in Jazan
JAZAN — Jazan police arrested five alcohol dealers, four Yemenis and a Saudi, and confiscated ten boxes of liquor bottles from their apartment during a raid. Jazan police spokesman Maj. Gen....
View Article3,946 infiltrators arrested in 4 months
BURAIDAH — In cooperation with officers from the passport department, authorities in Al-Qassim, Asir and Al-Baha have arrested 3,964 infiltrators of different nationalities over the past four...
View ArticleFirefighters bring blaze under control
DAMMAM — Civil Defense firefighters in Dammam contained a fire that broke out in the third floor of a building before it spread. No one was injured in the fire thanks to the swift action and...
View ArticleTwo arrested for firing firearms
DAMMAM — Two citizens were arrested after they discharged their guns in the air following a road altercation. Eastern Province police spokesman Lt. Col. Ziyad Al-Raqati said the two men were...
View ArticleTwo killed in Asir car crash
ABHA — A young man and a 50-year-old woman died when their car swerved off the road and overturned in Asir region. Two other women in the car were injured. A traffic police officer said the...
View ArticleTwo stabbed at accident scene
ABHA — Two citizens, one of them a head of a local municipality in Asir region, were stabbed by an unknown assailant following a traffic accident. The men were caught off guard when the...
View ArticlePolice bust Al-Baha burglary gang
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – The efforts of police officers in Al-Baha and Jeddah resulted in the arrest of a man who was wanted on suspicion of carrying out multiple robberies...
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Hawkers take advantage of Jeddah’s traffic woes
Fatima Muhammad Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The long lines of vehicles and lengthy signal timings that clog major intersections during peak hours provide beggars and hawkers an opportunity to...
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Over 100,000 visitors flock to first Jubail Spring Festival
Mohammad Al-Zahrani and Sultan Al-Sughair Saudi Gazette JUBAIL — More than 100,000 visitors from all over the Kingdom and the Gulf region flocked to the 1st Jubail Spring Festival during its...
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EP doctors set up forum
Sultan Al-Sughair Saudi Gazette AL-KHOBAR — A group of doctors and health experts in the Eastern Province has launched the first forum or Diwaniah, which will be held on a monthly basis....
View ArticleSR1.5b contracts awarded for new Makkah ring road
Fahd Al-Manaee Saudi Gazette MAKKAH – The Makkah mayoralty signed four new contracts worth SR1.5 billion for the implementation of the fourth ring road and its intersections in Makkah. The...
View ArticlePolice chase results in arrests of car thieves
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Jeddah police have arrested several members of a gang suspected of stealing cars in the port city. According to the arrest report, a police unit...
View ArticleOver 2,000 Madinah youths face job cuts
MADINAH — The razing of 150 major hotels in downtown Madinah area for the proposed expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque threatens to cut the jobs of over 2,000 young Saudis. Most of...
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Scores stranded in Makkah valleys after mountain rains
Fahd Al-Manaee Saudi Gazette MAKKAH – Floods caused by heavy rains at Al-Kar and Al-Hada mountains prevented scores of residents from getting to their homes in several valleys outside Makkah...
View ArticleA charter for Muslim women?
Rasheed Al-Baidani Okaz The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) recently adopted a declaration that urged an end to violence against girls and women. The document says that women...
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