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AFP Riyadh: A second wave of swine flu has begun in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said yesterday, as the death toll from A(H1N1) neared 60 just weeks before the annual Haj brings two million pilgrims to the country. Worldwide, the number of swine...
Tags: swine flu, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Influenza, flu pandemic by country, Pandemics, Influenza vaccine, Swine influenza, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Vaccines, flu pandemic
Brent crude futures, for shipments of Saudi crude into Europe and argued the U.S. benchmark was flawed. The most liquid contract in the world, U.S. light crude futures, is based on West Texas Intermediate (WTI), a land-locked oil delivered into Cushing,...
Tags: U.S. Gulf Coast, ASCI, WTI, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Futures contract, Price of petroleum, Brent Crude, Derivatives, Commodities market, West Texas Intermediate, Petroleum, Benchmark, Business Finance
Cloud cover over most parts of Muscat last evening failed to cause any rain in the city, the Meteorological department said. The Met department has, however, predicted rains in the Sultanate today. The Met department has forecast that residents in Muhafadhat...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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Tags: Riyadh, IMVU, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's banks netted about SR25.4 billion (Dh25.1bn) in profits in the first 10 months of 2009 and analysts believe the annual income could be equivalent to the earnings achieved in 2008. The combined net profits of the kingdom's 12 banks stood...
Tags: Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, saudi banks, Saudi American Bank Group, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Subprime crisis background information, Monarchy, Arabia, Western Asia, Business Finance, Bank, Central bank, Economy of Saudi Arabia
The governmental Human Rights Commission (HRC) intervened on two occasions to force men to send their children to school. Both cases took place in the Eastern Province and involved divorces earlier this year with the fathers winning custody. The first...
Tags: HRC, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Education, Human Rights Campaign, Social Issues, Boy, Law Crime
The normal situation when it comes to labor is that Saudis hire foreigners. But in an unusual twist at the fruit market in Riyadh�s southern Aziziyah district, a Saudi laborer works for a Bangladeshi man who operates a fruit stall. Yahya Awaji, 20, told...
Tags: fruit market, Yahya Awaji, Ali Awaji, fruit stall, Saudization, Saudis, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Monarchy, Arabia, Western Asia
Jeddah�s Al-Ruwais district is probably best known elsewhere because it was the location of the December 2004 attacks on the US Consulate. Some may know it as the home to the city�s largest graveyard that gives the district its name. But under a new development...
Tags: Jeddah Islamic Port, Jeddah&, Al-Ruwais Company, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, House of Saud, Ruwais, Red Sea, Jeddah, Mecca
is telling an interfaith audience that the prophet Muhammad traces his lineage to Abraham, the biblical patriarch. Turk explains to the crowd of mostly Christians and Jews that Muslims also revere Jesus and Moses as prophets, and that Islam cherishes...
Tags: Hafez Turk, Islamic University of Medina, Muslims, Muslim Army, Palestinian Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Muhammad, Islam, Jihad, Religion Belief