RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia on Monday called on Iraq's political parties to move quickly to form a new government to enhance the country's stability and security.
The Saudi cabinet in its weekly meeting "urged its Iraqi brothers to speedily form a new government to bring more security and stability in the country," according to an official report carried by the SPA news agency.
The cabinet, pr [...]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Airport workers in Riyadh found a human body on the landing gear of a flight from Beirut early Saturday, after a man apparently tried to hitch a ride on the Saudi-owned Nas Air jet, aviation authorities said.
The body was discovered when a maintenance worker went to inspect the right rear landing gear of the Airbus 320 after it landed at Riyadh's King Khaled [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi King Abdullah will reschedule a visit to France for meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy after cancelling his planned July 12 trip to Paris, Riyadh confirmed on Saturday.
The visit "has been postponed to a date to be determined, at the earliest time convenient for the two sides," the state news agency SPA reported, citing a government official.
The Saudi king had [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is investigating a smuggling operation that illegally exported discount-priced oil to Europe for more than 11 years, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported on Saturday.
Unnamed companies had bought discounted oil under the guise of using it to produce chemicals domestically, but instead they shipped it to unidentified destinations in Europe, the paper said.
Okaz di [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Saudi King Adbullah has decided to postpone a visit to France scheduled for next week and no official reason has been given for the delay, Le Monde newspaper reported on Friday.
A French official told AFP that the visit had never been formally decided.
The 86-year-old monarch left Riyadh in June for a multi-nation tour, traveling to Morocco, Canada for the Group of 20 summi [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - The Saudi cabinet agreed on Monday to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with France, which could open the way for French help in developing nuclear power in the oil-rich kingdom.
The agreement is "for the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy," the cabinet announced after its weekly meeting in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The pact was first propo [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Saudi Arabia's religious police, who once used staves to prod people to the mosque at prayer time, are taking the mosque to football fans for the World Cup.
The Islamic morality cops began rolling out prayer carpets this week in front of popular coffee shops on Riyadh's central Tahlia street, where Saudi men are turning out nightly for the m [...]
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