Saudi Arabia News

The outgoing Indonesian ambassador in Riyadh has been appointed Indonesia’s minister of social affairs. Secretary-General Dr. Saleh Al-Wohaibi said at a farewell party in honor of Al-Jufrie.

Middle East has recoiled drastically on Adelaide United coach Aurelio Vidmar, who has been suspended and heavily fined by his club, a sanction that also betrays the sensitivity of Australian soccer as it seeks to win Asian backing for its...

A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said. The victims of the virus were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an...

Days before a forecast three million Muslim pilgrims pack Mecca to begin the holy ritual of the hajj, the spectre of a possible outbreak of swine flu seems to be fazing few of them. There might be posters in the...

A list of the 500 'most influential' Muslims in the world has left me confused, and not just because my name isn't there Most influential Muslim? Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud presents former US president George Bush with...

Lower oil production will ally with slowing construction activity to try and depress the UAE economy in 2009, but the economy is expected to rebound by nearly four per cent in 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said yesterday. In...

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and Saudi King Abdullah agreed in talks on the need to restart Middle East peace talks and took a firm stance on Iran, a French official said on Wednesday. In three hours of “deep” talks late Tuesday...

DU Correspondent A female Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim was killed while 11 others were injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch at Arafat in Saudi Arabia. The deceased was identified as Pakiza Khatun of Chittagong, satellite television Channel-i reported...

Any near-term merger activity among Gulf banks is likely to focus on the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain, where margins are low and the customer base relatively small, a Standard and Poor’s (S&P) analyst said. Mergers are far less likely in...