DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Saudi Arabia announced Monday that the Eid al-Fitr feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan will be on Tuesday, in a statement aired on state television Al-Ekhbariyah.
Religious authorities in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, said the new moon had been sighted and that Ramadan ends on Monday with the feast to follow the next day.
The Islamic cal [...]
MOGADISHU (AFP) - (AFP) - A delegation from the Saudi royal family arrived Saturday in Mogadishu on a one-day visit to see how best to assist the Horn of Africa country hit by famine and drought, officials said.
The delegation, led by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Abdullah and one of the kingdom's wealthiest men, arrived in late morning and visited camps for those displaced by the [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemeni Ali Abdullah Saleh has left hospital in Riyadh, two months after he was badly wounded in a bomb attack as his forces waged a deadly crackdown on protesters, a Saudi official said on Sunday.
"The Yemeni president left the military hospital this (Saturday) evening at 9 pm (1800 GMT) after receiving the necessary treatment and was taken to a temporary residence for a [...]
LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - A Saudi prince accused by a British newspaper of ordering police to gun down unarmed demonstrators during this year's Arab uprisings won "substantial" libel damages Wednesday over the allegations.
Independent Print Ltd, publishers of The Independent newspaper, and its Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk expressed "sincere apologies" at London's High Court over claims ma [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - (AFP) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal launched Tuesday a project to build the world's tallest tower at more than 1,000 metres (3,281 feet) in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
The project to built a tower topping Dubai's world's highest building, Burj Khalifa, "will soon see the light after the signing of a $1.2 billion agreement" between Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co and [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.
"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah should withdraw a draft counterterrorism law from consideration by the cabinet because it would facilitate serious human rights violations," the Washington-bas [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - (AFP) - Just 10 out of a previous total of 129 Saudi detainees now remain at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a local daily reported on Sunday.
"There are only 10 out of 129 detainees" still being held in the prison, Al-Medina daily quoted a representative of the detainees' families, Abdullah al-Jaid, as saying. The rest have all been released.
The United States has [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States plans talks with Saudi Arabia on civilian nuclear cooperation, people familiar with the plans said, in a step that has already set off fierce criticism on Capitol Hill.
With the United States hoping to head off an arms race in response to Iran's nuclear program, officials from President Barack Obama's administration plan to head to Riyadh in the comi [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's military leader in Yemen called for Saudi rulers to be killed as "apostates," in an audio tape released on Friday, SITE Intelligence Group reported.
"To the scholars ... of the family of Saud ... I say to you, your King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and his crown prince, his interior minister and his son Mohammed, are considered by us to be apostates and must be kille [...]
SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Opponents and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, convalescing in Saudi Arabia, held rival rallies on Friday in Sanaa, six months into a crisis which has brought the impoverished country to its knees.
"No dialogue, no haggling, victory is near," chanted anti-Saleh protesters who gathered in Sittine Road, in a western district of the capital, for a day of "patience [...]
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