TUNIS (AFP) - Tunisia on Monday formally asked Saudi Arabia to extradite Leila Trabelsi, the wife of ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, TAP news agency reported, quoting a foreign ministry official.
"The Tunisian authorities have made an official request to Saudi authorities through diplomatic channels for the extradition of Leila Trabelsi, the wife of the ousted president," the ag [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is to return home this week after convalescing in Morocco from operations in New York, a source close to the oil-rich Gulf monarchy said on Sunday.
"The king is expected to return Wednesday and preparations are underway" to greet Abdullah, the official told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Another source said the heads of Saudi state media, especiall [...]
TUNIS (AFP) - Tunisia's interim government on Sunday asked Saudi Arabia to extradite deposed strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as it faced a second day of protests demanding its resignation.
Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi's government made the official request to Riyadh, where Ben Ali fled on January 14 with his family after weeks of popular revolt against his 23-year regime, said a fo [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for the first stage of a Gulf tour to boost US relations with its allies in the region.
"Part of what I want to accomplish is to reassure our friends and also just listen to what's on their mind," Mullen told journalists.
The highest ranking US military officer's visit comes as [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for the first stage of a Gulf tour to boost US relations with its allies in the region.
"Part of what I want to accomplish is to reassure our friends and also just listen to what's on their mind," Mullen told journalists.
The highest ranking US military officer's visit comes as [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Human Rights Watch called on Saudi Arabia on Saturday to free five activists who announced amid the turmoil shaking the Middle East that they were forming the kingdom's first political party.
"At a time when people throughout the Arab world are out on the street seeking greater freedom, the Saudi secret police seem determined to nip any similar demands in the bud," said Chri [...]
RABAT (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is in "excellent" health and anxious to return home from convalescing in Morocco following surgery, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Thursday.
"He's in excellent health, he's undergoing therapy," the prince said in Morocco.
"The doctors are suggesting a certain amount of therapy and he's doing twice as much as they tell him. ... [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Like their Arab neighbours using the web to rally against their regimes, Saudis seeking political, social and economic reforms have created a group on Facebook that by Tuesday had nearly 2,000 members.
"The people want to reform the regime" group calls for a constitutional monarchy, transparency, legislative elections, an independent and fair judicial system, anti-corruption [...]
MADRID (AFP) - Real Madrid, one of the world's richest football clubs, have announced they have reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia's Prince Salman Foundation to build a sports academy in the Middle Eastern country.
The deal will officially be signed in Madrid on Monday, the Spanish club said in a statement published on their website late on Friday.
"The Real Madrid Foundation and the Princ [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Kingdom Holding said on Monday it has offered to buy the Saudi operations of Zain, opening a way for the UAE's Etisalat to acquire a majority stake in the Kuwaiti-based mobile telecoms operator.
The Saudi investment group said it has sent the board of directors of Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C (Zain) a "non-binding offer and a preliminary expression of interest" t [...]
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