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The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) talks in Quebec yesterday resulted in them not imposing any sanctions on the Middle Easterners.

Talk of the "Grand Bargain" is once again finding its way to theories on the relationship between the United States and Iran, in light of...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will next week travel to Turkey and Saudi Arabia for a number of engagements in the two countries, including attending a meeting related to the Alliance of Civilizations, a conference on the future of Somalia and a meeting of the advisory board of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre.

Saudi Arabia and Western and gulf states pledged more than $4 billion in humanitarian aid to Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and western and Gulf states pledged more than $4 billion (€3.18 billion) in aid to Yemen at a Riyadh conference two days after more than 90 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, deepening concerns about al-Qaeda’s presence in the country.

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has signed a $3-billion deal with Britain to buy trainer jets for the Gulf kingdom's air force, SPA state news agency said on Wednesday. The agreement includes the provision of simulators, ground and training equipment and spare parts, SPA reported, quoting a Saudi defence ministry official. The official said the new jets would help qualify Saudi pilots "to use ...

Gulf and western countries hope to prop up President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi’s new government as he battles al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups

Saudi Arabia pledges $3.25bn in aid to neighbouring Yemen, which is facing political instability and a possible humanitarian catastrophe.

Saudi Arabia and Western and Gulf states pledged more than $4 billion in aid to Yemen at a Riyadh conference two days after more than 90 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, deepening concerns about al Qaeda’s presence in the country.

SAUDI Arabia will give its impoverished neighbour Yemen aid worth $3.33 billion, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal says.

Saudi Arabia pledges $3.5bn in aid to neighbouring Yemen, which is facing political instability and a possible humanitarian catastrophe.

BAE Systems is close to striking a £1.9bn deal to sell Hawk training jets to Saudi Arabia.

Massive support in Saudi Arabia, world's largest Egyptian expat community, pushes Mursi over Islamist rival Abol Fotouh.

Everton midfielder Tim Cahill has emerged as a shock summer transfer target for super rich Saudi Arabia club Al Nassr. Cahill has two years left on his Goodison Park contract.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Saudis to follow the example of the Arab Spring and rise up against their rulers.

Riyadh summit between Saudi Arabia and Gulf leaders was significant if not successful.

SINGAPORE - Oil fell in Asian trade Monday amid mounting worries over Europe's debt crisis and calls by major crude producer Saudi Arabia for prices to fall further, analysts said.New York's main contract West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in June was down 68 cents to $95.45 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for June shed 52 cents to $111.74 in the afternoon.Debt-laden Greece's ...

SINGAPORE - Oil fell in Asian trade Monday amid mounting worries over Europe's debt crisis and calls by major crude producer Saudi Arabia for prices to fall further, analysts said.New York's main contract West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in June was down 68 cents to $95.45 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for June shed 52 cents to $111.74 in the afternoon.Debt-laden Greece's ...

SINGAPORE - Oil fell in Asian trade Monday amid mounting worries over Europe's debt crisis and calls by major crude producer Saudi Arabia for prices to fall further, analysts said.New York's main contract West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in June was down 68 cents to $95.45 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for June shed 52 cents to $111.74 in the afternoon.Debt-laden Greece's ...

Oil fell in Asian trade on Monday amid mounting worries over Europe's debt crisis and calls by major crude producer Saudi Arabia for prices to fall further, analysts said.

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are expected to push toward a broad security and economic union, an agreement that regional power Saudi Arabia hopes will spur a similar tightening of ties with other Gulf countries.

DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are expected to announce closer political union at a meeting of Gulf Arab leaders on Monday, a Bahraini minister said, a move dismissed by the opposition as a ruse to avoid political reform.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has dismissed a controversial ultraconservative adviser after he publicly criticized reforms aimed at easing restrictions on women, the kingdom's state media reports.Sheik Abdul-Mohsen al-Obeikan had told a local radio station that officials were working to Westernize and secularize the country's laws by "legalizing taboos."Read More...More o...

Leak about UK involvement described as despicable by CIA as anger turns to Obama administration for compromising missionDetailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5.T...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines....

SANAA, Yemen — He has dispatched his own brother to death, hiding a bomb on him before he crossed into Saudi Arabia to target the kingdom’s chief counterterrorism official. He has tried to attack the United States three times in the past three years, building small, sophisticated and hard-to-detect devices in his workshop in the rugged terrain of southern Yemen. Read full article >> ...

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is pumping at around 10 million barrels per day and is storing 80 million barrels to meet any sudden disruption in supplies, oil minister Ali al-Naimi said.

The latest twist in the foiled Yemen bomb plot is straight out of a James Bond film, as the New York Times reports: The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign offic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is pumping around 10 million barrels per day (bpd) and is storing 80 million barrels to meet any sudden disruption in supplies, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Tuesday.

India's Supreme Court orders the government to eliminate its subsidy for Muslim pilgrims going on the Hajj to Saudi Arabia.

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is pumping at around 10 million barrels per day and is storing 80 million barrels to meet any sudden disruption in supplies, oil minister Ali al-Naimi said today.

Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded one of its citizens accused of killing his wife, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

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Saudi Arabia has no evidence that Osama bin Laden's wives and family members deported from Pakistan have been involved in terrorism.

Saudi Arabia has allowed the family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden into the kingdom on humanitarian grounds, state media reported on Saturday, almost a year after U.S. special forces killed the world’s most wanted man in Pakistan.

Cairo demonstrations over Egyptian lawyer arrested in Saudi Arabia lead Riyadh to recall ambassador and close missions.

SAUDI Arabia has allowed the three widows and children of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden entrance into the kingdom on humanitarian grounds, a Saudi-owned daily reports.

Pakistan deported the family of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia on Friday, their lawyer and a diplomat said, nearly a year after U.S. special forces killed the world's most wanted man in a northwestern Pakistani town.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Saudi Arabia should abolish the Specialized Criminal Court, set up in 2008 to try terrorism cases, but increasingly used to try peaceful dissidents and rights activists on politicized charges and in proceedings that violate the right to a fair trial. In April, it sentenced two people to prison for their peaceful activism, and the...

The family of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, are being deported to Saudi Arabia early tomorrow morning.

You should see what even first graders have to read in Saudi Arabia.

The man who led the Blaugrana to Champions League glory in 2006 is currently managing Saudi Arabia but is now set to return to club football in Mexico

DUBAI, April 18 (Reuters) - Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Capital is looking at three to four investments in Saudi Arabia valued up to $150 million each, a senior executive said on Wednesday.

Bin Laden's family who are currently being kept under house arrest in Islamabad, Pakistan, are due to be deported next Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia looks at Pakistan’s commitment to pursue energy cooperation with Iran with doubt and is asking the government to reconsider its decision. Quoting diplomatic sources based in Islamabad, a news report in a section of press (Dawn) ‘S. Arabia offers help to tide over energy crisis’ (April 11) said that the above-mentioned was the gist or essence of a message from the ...

THE defence lawyer for Osama bin Laden's family says Pakistan will deport the slain al-Qaeda chief's three widows and their children to Saudi Arabia next week.

Headline Title:  Saudi Arabia must release detained activist on hunger strike 13 April 2012 The Saudi Arabian authorities must release a prominent human rights activist who is reported to have been on hunger strike for five weeks in protest at his continuing unfair imprisonmen...

AN IRISH woman who fled Saudi Arabia with two of her children after her husband brought a second wife into the marital home has brought High Court proceedings challenging a determination by the Minister for Social Protection that she is not entitled to social welfare payments.

President Obama met with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Defense, Prince Salman bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, today in the Oval Office.  The President and Prince Salman affirmed the strong and enduring partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia and discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues.  The President asked Prince Salman to convey his personal greetings to King Abdullah bin Abd...

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are being urged not to supply weapons to Syrian rebels for fear of hampering efforts to negotiate an end to the crisis.

pigrabbitbear writes "The recent web pornography ban in Egypt has raised questions about the evils of censorship (and porn) and the changing tide of popular attitude of Egyptians. It perhaps reflects the emerging influence of more conservative Muslim elements in government, a shift . Apparently the same ban was passed 3 years ago but was not enforced because their filtering system was not effec...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - An important Saudi official riding in a chauffeured Rolls Royce unspools a wire fence across previously unclaimed land. "It's mine now," he says. The scene, in a YouTube spoof video satirizing a new state agency to combat corruption, has attracted 2.2 million viewers in a strait-laced Islamic kingdom where Saudi online comedians are tackling once-taboo subjects ...

Bringing relief to thousands of Indians working in Saudi Arabia, the Shoura (consultative) Council of the Arab nation has rejected a proposal to levy income tax on Indian and other foreign workers in the country.

In its new “Enemies of the Internet” report, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders depicts an Internet under unprecedented pressure from the world’s autocratic regimes. The study lists twelve such “enemies,” including Iran, North Korea, China and Saudi Arabia, and observes that an increasing number of governments are not content merely to take domestic steps to control onli...

A 40-member youth delegation from Saudi Arabia, on a perception-changing visit to this country, got firsthand experience of India's software power at Infosys on Tuesday.

Farmington, Connecticut (ots/PRNewswire) - Die Otis Elevator Company Saudi Arabia Ltd., ein Unternehmen der Otis Elevator Company [http://www.otisworldwide.com ], ein Geschäftsbereich der United Technologies Corp. , hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass man den Zuschlag für sechs Verträge ...

Every participating nation at the London Olympics is expected to field at least one female athlete, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei, who have previously sent only male competitors.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The price of oil is falling after Saudi Arabia promised to keep markets well-stocked with petroleum....

A top Democrat has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to see if rogue actors including Iran manipulated oil prices with rumors this month. U.S. crude prices are down 51 cents, or 0.51%, to $106.17 per barrel. Some of the big integrated oil names were down about 1%, including ExxonMobil (XOM)  BP (BP) and Total [...]

Prices had moved higher after an Iranian media report of a pipeline fire in top exporter Saudi Arabia. Prices fell back after CNBC cited a Saudi oil official saying the report was untrue.

As Republicans call for a domestic drilling surge to curb rising gas prices, Sen. Chuck Schumer writes letter to Secretary of State Clinton urging her department to convince Saudi Arabia to increase production.Senators Call for Inquiry Into 'Tax-Funded Spin' by Obama AdministrationVIDEO: Rising Gas Prices Hurting President's Re-Election Effort?

As U.S. policymakers contemplate a new era as the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas," a new government analysis slashes estimates for unproved shale gas reserves.

India has sought up to 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) extra oil from Iraq in 2012/13, days after placing a similar request with top exporter Saudi Arabia to meet demand from its expanding refineries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should do more to encourage Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production to make up for lost Iranian oil, Senator Charles Schumer said on Sunday, urging renewed diplomacy as a way to ease the run-up in oil prices.

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to explain how the quota of 125,000 for the Haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia was distributed among various state committees.

Saudi Arabia is expected to circulate a draft resolution backing an Arab peace plan for Syria among UN General Assembly members on Friday.

TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD newspaper columnist Hamza Kashgari deleted his “blaspheming” Twitter postings within six hours, apologised, and fled Saudi Arabia.

IT’S HARD to top the bloody hypocrisy of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is making a run at it. On Friday, the king delivered an angry speech denouncing the United Nations Security Council’s failure to act on Syria, where Saudi Arabia is supporting an Arab League plan for a “democratic transition” that would end the Assad regime. “The world is ruled by brains, ...

THE Socceroos' World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia will be thrown into chaos by FIFA boss Sepp Blatter's 11th-hour plan to delay kick-off.

The Afghan government is planning to meet the Taliban in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to jump-start peace talks, the BBC has learned.

Standing on a large floor map in a Jeddah art gallery, Hamza Serafi places a yellow sign inscribed "Caution: revolution (take 2)" over Egypt and then turns to Saudi Arabia.  

ASK AROUND and the consensus is that Libya’s best player is the midfielder Tariq al-Taib. He has twice finished in the top 10 of the voting for African Player of the Year, had successful stints in Tunisia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and captained the national side the last time they reached the finals of the Cup of Nations, in 2006. When Libya walk out at the Estadio de Bata this evening to face ...

(Internet) war in the Middle East continues, with today's Israeli strike against the stock exchanges of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both financial hubs were down for hours, and those responsible say they'l "move to the next level." More »

CONSUMERS are unlikely to enjoy a respite from high fuel prices after Saudi Arabia said it wanted to keep oil at $US100 a barrel.

Building a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia is vital to advancing the United Kingdom's priorities in the region.

It's been a busy week for Iran-watchers. The European Union is mulling a phased-in oil embargo, prompting Iranian officials to label the move as "an economic war" against Iran. Now Iran's Asia customers are trying to diversify away from Iranian oil. These expectations of future cutoffs, combined with pre-existing sanctions, have begun to take their toll on the Iranian economy in the form of do...

The Obama administration gave away some of its leverage when it announced multibillion-dollar arms sales deals with Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Britain's high speed rail network is lagging behind Morocco and Saudi Arabia more than 100 business leaders have said in a letter in The Daily Telegraph today.

The head of the Tunis military tribunal has accused Saudi Arabia of ignoring its request to hand over ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

An international diplomatic incident was caused by the name of a chain of bingo halls across Britain, newly released files reveal.

The United States confirms the sale of nearly $30bn (£19.5bn) of new fighter jets and upgrades to Saudi Arabia.

The United States has completed a $29.4 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, the Obama administration announced today.

NASA has posted a series of satellite photos documenting the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands. The Athabasca mines cover over 54,000 square miles in Alberta with an estimated reserve of 1.75 trillion barrels of oil – good enough for third in the world behind Saudi Arabia (1) and Venezuela (2).Production increases noticeably from the mid-1980s to present day: [More]

But Brazil, where unlocked phones start at $1,400 U.S., not so much Apple (AAPL) delivered the iPhone 4S to two dozen more countries Friday, bringing it -- by our count -- to within two or three of its promise to hit more than 70 countries by the end of the year. [UPDATE: Apple PR says they are already at more than 70; waiting for their list.] Friday's launches were in Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, ...

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KABUL (AFP) - Afghan authorities on Thursday named Saudi Arabia or Turkey as the best places to set up a Taliban liaison office abroad to enable peace talks to end a devastating 10-year insurgency.President Hamid Karzai convened a top level meeting, the outcome of which is not binding, to discuss how to move forward with a peace process derailed by the assassination of his peace envoy, Burhanud...

In an interview with 'The New York Times' former president says Israel is becoming like Saudi Arabia: "A hug is a sex offense."

MAN found guilty of religious offences in Saudi Arabia faces 500 lashes as Australian Government calls for leniency.

Previous references to foreign meddling have been widely read to mean Iran

The United States may be known as the Saudi Arabia of coal thanks to its large deposits. But under an expected investment push, Saudi Arabia could soon become the Saudi Arabia of solar power.