RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Monday 6 May 2013 Saudi Arabia released yesterday 166 former Al-Qaeda members and repentant militants after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior. The rehabilitation program and release […]
Jordan and Turkey to also play role in US-brokered plan to contain, rather than thwart, Iran, London’s Sunday Times reports by Times of Israel staff Israel is working on joining […]
Food rationing for refugees planned as $650m pledged to UN remains undelivered Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes because oil-rich Gulf states have […]
Salman Al-Awdah ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 O YOU who believe! Have taqwa with Allah, and be among the truthful.” (Al-Qur’an, 9:119) Many people understand truthfulness to mean truthfulness of the tongue through speech alone. In reality, truthfulness is a vast curriculum. It is as much one of the characteristics […]
Source: ARABNEWS Colonel Donald S. Rockwell was born in Illinois, United States. He completed his studies in universities of Washington and Columbia where he received many honorary degrees. He was a poet, literary critic as well as editorial director at Radio Personalities. He gained the rank of colonel while participating […]
Hatoon Kadi ARABNEWS Monday 29 April 2013 Yes here I am, the sophisticated Ph.D. student writing about doing without domestic help after the morning marathon of, “kids put on your clothes now! Finish your breakfast and brush your teeth. Whaaat? You haven’t made your bed? Do it now before school!” […]
JEDDAH: Khadijah Habib ARABNEWS Monday 29 April 2013 The Ministry of Haj has warned hotels and other accommodation facilities against seizing passports of pilgrims under any circumstances, cautioning that punitive action will be taken if irregularities are detected. In a phone conversation with Arab News, Muhammad Al-Bijawi, director of the […]
Saudi man yields to fiancée’s demand to marry her three friends By Staff EMIRATES 24/7 Published Monday, September 10, 2012 A Saudi man who finally decided to marry his long-standing fiancée got the shock of his life when she demanded that he first marry her three friends. Once he overcame […]
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JEDDAH: MARWAH HADDAD ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 The official spokesman of the Civil Status Department has said that the department has no jurisdiction to either accept or reject the names chosen by parents for their newborn children where parents are non-Muslim. Omar Mahmood, a Muslim expat living in Saudi […]
MAKKAH: TARIQ ATH THQAFI ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 A 12-meter wide lane to be used by the handicapped people is being built in the Grand Mosque. The General Presidency […]
ARABNEWS Israeli defiance and intransigence stand in the way of achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the UN has told the Security Council. “Israel’s continued […]
JEDDAH: NASIM CHOWDHURY ARABNEWS Thursday 25 April 2013 In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to […]
JEDDAH: JASSIM ABUZAID ARABNEWS Wednesday 24 April 2013 The office of the Ministry of Islamic and Endowment Affairs in Makkah has barred non-Saudis from being imams and muezzins. Abdullah Al-Nasser, head of the ministry’s office in Makkah, said there will be no exception to the ruling, a local newspaper reported. […]
For terrorists, the prison experience can be harrowing, especially in other countries where civil rights aren’t a thing. However, in Saudi Arabia, prison for terrorists is eerily like a resort […]
Source: TOI This is a story of a woman who defied all odds and gave birth to a child. In a foreign country, five-month pregnant Shaheen Ahmad went desperately knocking on doors of different hospitals even as she was losing precious water from her womb. She was told that at […]
Arab News Monday 22 April 2013 While the whole world deplores and condemns this wanton and senseless act of terror in Boston, which claimed 3 innocent lives and injured over […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 21 April 2013 The development and expansion projects in Makkah have not wiped out the holy city’s identity and history, said Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 20 April 2013 Saudi student Abdulrahman Al-Harbi, who was injured in the second explosion at the Boston Marathon bombings, said US authorities’ questioning at the hospital […]
EDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Sunday 24 March 2013 At least 2 million expatriates may lose their jobs or leave the Kingdom shortly as about 250,000 small and medium enterprises will […]