News: Saudi Arabia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Saudi Arabia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Saudi Arabia: news

Saudis trumpet al-Qaeda arrests

Friday, November 26th 2010, 15:06

Some 149 al-Qaeda suspects have been arrested in Saudi Arabia over the past eight months, officials say.
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Saudi king's 'successful surgery'

Wednesday, November 24th 2010, 18:09

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah undergoes a successful back operation for a herniated disc in a New York hospital, according to media reports.
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Pakistan's Hajj accused remanded

Monday, November 22nd 2010, 12:19
related countries: Pakistan

Pakistan's former top Hajj official is kept in custody, amid an inquiry into what is being called the nation's biggest fraud relating to the Saudi pilgrimage.
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Saudi crown prince returns home

Monday, November 22nd 2010, 11:46
related countries: Morocco, United States

Saudi's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz returns home from Morocco, as King Abdullah prepares to go to the US for medical treatment.
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Saudi lessons concern government

Monday, November 22nd 2010, 3:52
related countries: United Kingdom

The government says it will not tolerate anti-Semitic and homophobic lessons being taught to Muslim children at part-time UK schools.
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Saudi king to get US medical care

Sunday, November 21st 2010, 18:26
related countries: United States
related places: Monday

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is to go to the US on Monday for treatment for a herniated back disc and related problems, Saudi officials say.
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Indonesian maid 'killed in Saudi'

Friday, November 19th 2010, 14:19
related countries: Indonesia

Indonesia demands an inquiry into reports that a maid working in Saudi Arabia was murdered by her employers - the second case of alleged abuse this week.
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Plea for mercy

Thursday, November 18th 2010, 1:54
related countries: Sri Lanka

Anguish of family of Sri Lankan maid facing Saudi death sentence
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Indonesia condemns maid torture

Tuesday, November 16th 2010, 20:35
related countries: Indonesia

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has demanded justice for the "extraordinary torture" of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia.
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Millions attend Hajj pilgrimage

Monday, November 15th 2010, 12:44

As many as three million Muslims have made their way to Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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Final preparations for Hajj pilgrims

Thursday, November 11th 2010, 3:17
related places: Mecca

As more than two million people begin making their way to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj or the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the huge task of preparing for the event is in its final stages.
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Afghans detain 'rebels' on plane

Tuesday, November 9th 2010, 18:33
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Kabul

Four suspected militants are arrested in Kabul after their flight to Saudi Arabia is forced to turn back, Nato says.
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Women's rights

Tuesday, November 9th 2010, 12:22

Will Iran and Saudi Arabia help set global gender policy?
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US points to Saudi bomb suspect

Monday, November 1st 2010, 11:03
related countries: United States, Yemen

US officials say a Saudi bombmaker is the key suspect in the jet parcel bomb plot, as Yemen frees a woman suspected of mailing them.
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Saudis try to break Iraq impasse

Saturday, October 30th 2010, 22:06
related countries: Iraq
related places: Riyadh

Saudi Arabia's king invites the leaders of Iraq's political blocs for talks in Riyadh to try to break the continuing deadlock over a new government.
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S Lanka president in maid appeal

Tuesday, October 26th 2010, 4:41
related countries: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's president is to appeal to Saudi Arabia's king to revoke the death sentence on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing a baby in her care.
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US confirms $60bn Saudi arms plan

Wednesday, October 20th 2010, 19:24
related countries: United States

The US confirms it intends to sell $60bn of arms to Saudi Arabia, possibly supporting some 75,000 jobs.
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Prince jailed for servant murder

Wednesday, October 20th 2010, 11:28
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: London

A Saudi prince is jailed for life and told he will serve at least 20 years for murdering his servant at a hotel in central London.
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Prince guilty of servant's murder

Tuesday, October 19th 2010, 16:14
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: London

A Saudi prince is found guilty of murdering his servant who was found beaten and strangled at a London hotel.
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Death in Room 312

Tuesday, October 19th 2010, 14:51

How murder exposed Saudi prince's life in the closet
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France 'warned of terror threat'

Monday, October 18th 2010, 0:19
related countries: France

Saudi Arabia has warned France it is the target of an imminent al-Qaeda attack, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux says.
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Saudis may stop Sri Lanka workers

Monday, October 11th 2010, 17:59
related countries: Sri Lanka

One of the main recruitment organisations in Saudi Arabia calls for a suspension in the hiring of thousands of workers from Sri Lanka.
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Saudi 'not in gay relationship'

Wednesday, October 6th 2010, 16:59

A Saudi Arabian prince accused of murder was not in a gay relationship with the alleged victim, his lawyer says.
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Saudi prince 'murdered' servant

Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 15:12
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: London

A Saudi Arabian prince murdered his servant in a London hotel in an attack with a "gay sexual element", the Old Bailey hears.
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US to push $60bn Saudi arms sale

Monday, September 13th 2010, 23:12
related countries: United States

The Pentagon is set to notify the US Congress of a $60bn (£39bn) sale to Saudi Arabia of advanced military aircraft, reports say.
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Saudi website for fatwas closes

Thursday, September 9th 2010, 14:26
related places: `Awdah

The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed its section offering thousands of Islamic religious rulings.
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Nails removed from 'abused' maid

Friday, August 27th 2010, 10:18
related countries: Sri Lanka

Doctors remove 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
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'Tortured' maid to have surgery

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 12:10
related countries: Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan housemaid who accused her former employers in Saudi Arabia of implanting nails in her body is to undergo surgery, her doctors say.
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Saudi 'faces spine-op punishment'

Saturday, August 21st 2010, 0:15

Amnesty International urges Saudi officials to stop any attempt to medically paralyse a man as a judicial punishment.
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Diplomat and poet Algosaibi dies

Monday, August 16th 2010, 3:15

One of the best-known writers and public figures in Saudi Arabia, Ghazi Algosaibi, dies of cancer at the age of 70.
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Saudi gives Blackberry reprieve

Tuesday, August 10th 2010, 11:11

Saudi Arabia's telecommunications regulator says it will allow Blackberry services to temporarily continue in the kingdom.
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Saudi eyes

Tuesday, August 10th 2010, 7:17
related countries: United States

Women photographers from Saudi Arabia exhibit in the US
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Saudi Blackberry deal 'in sight'

Saturday, August 7th 2010, 14:12

An agreement to prevent a ban on the Blackberry smartphone in Saudi Arabia is close to completion, Saudi officials say.
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Saudi Arabia ends Blackberry ban

Friday, August 6th 2010, 21:40

Blackberry services have reportedly been restored in Saudi Arabia, following a government ban over security concerns.
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Saudi Blackberry service resumes

Friday, August 6th 2010, 15:51

Blackberry devices are working again in Saudi Arabia after a four hour outage, despite a ban due to come into force on Friday 6 August.
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Saudi Arabia Blackberry ban due

Friday, August 6th 2010, 1:21

A ban on the use of Blackberry phones to send and receive messages is due to come into effect in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudis announce Blackberry ban

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010, 21:36

The authorities in Saudi Arabia tell telecoms firms to block the messenger function on Blackberry handsets from Friday.
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Gulf states unveil Blackberry ban

Sunday, August 1st 2010, 14:08
related countries: United Arab Emirates

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announce bans on some of the Blackberry mobile phone's services, claiming security concerns.
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Changing times

Friday, July 30th 2010, 23:50
related countries: Lebanon, Syria

An unprecedented trip to Lebanon by Syrian and Saudi leaders
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Changing times

Friday, July 30th 2010, 23:50
related countries: Lebanon, Syria

An unprecedented trip to Lebanon by Syrian and Saudi leaders
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