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Zainab, a three-year old American girl, drowned in the floodwaters close to the Jamiah Bridge during the flash flooding that ravaged Jeddah on Nov. 25, Al-Madinah daily reported on Thursday. She was traveling with her parents and brothers to celebrate...

About 200 mostly elderly Indonesian pilgrims passed away during their Haj pilgrimages, jolting the Indonesian officials once again to find out solution to an ever-increasing number of deaths reported every year especially among Indonesian pilgrims...The death toll is likely to...

A total of 1,205 Filipino workers in the Middle East have taken part in the first special licensure examinations given by the Philippine government on a bigger scale for engineers, architects, accountants and master electricians. Two teams of examiners from...

Flu Largely Spares Hajj Published: December 2, 2009 This year’s pilgrimage to Mecca ended without a large or dangerous outbreak of swine flu , Saudi health authorities reported this week. Only 73 laboratory-confirmed cases were found and only five pilgrims...

At a meeting of charity and civil society organizations involved in providing assistance to the victims of the Nov. 25 Jeddah flash flooding, everyone came to the same conclusion: A lack of disaster-management planning was a key component to the...

Young Saudi groups have mobilized to help families that have been displaced by last week�s flash flooding. A group of young Saudis in Kilo-14 in a back of a pick-up truck were seen distributing food and clothes to the families...

A number of lawyers here are offering their services pro bono to Saudis and foreign residents seeking compensation for damages related to last week�s flash flooding that killed at least 106, flooded entire districts and destroyed thousands of cars. Saad...

Arab News toured the badly-hit area in Kilo 14, east of the Haramain Expressway on Wednesday. Most of the stores were out of business due to last week�s flash floods. Only stores located on higher ground managed to reopen but...

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah thanked Second Deputy Premier Prince Naif, chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, on the successful completion of Haj this year. King Abdullah expressed his appreciation of the services of the prince and...