Saudi Arabia
Cairo, Riyadh to sign 12 investment deals on Jan. 5
Business
December 31, 2015
Cairo, Riyadh to sign 12 investment deals on Jan. 5
Egypt and Saudi Arabia will sign 12 memorandums for Saudi investments in Cairo as a joint committee by both countries…
Mideast stocks: Saudi Arabia little changed, broad rise in Egypt
Business
December 30, 2015
Mideast stocks: Saudi Arabia little changed, broad rise in Egypt
Dec 30 Saudi Arabia's stock index moved sideways early on Wednesday as a negative reaction to austerity measures in the…
Saudi economic shake-up shows it is planning for cheap oil
Business
December 29, 2015
Saudi economic shake-up shows it is planning for cheap oil
Saudi Arabia's planned cuts in spending and energy subsidies signal that the world's largest crude exporter is bracing for a…
Rouhani says Muslim states should fix Islam’s public image
Middle East
December 27, 2015
Rouhani says Muslim states should fix Islam’s public image
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said that Muslim countries should strive to improve the world's opinion of Islam. "We must…
Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile from Yemen: state news
Middle East
December 27, 2015
Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile from Yemen: state news
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Scud ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, according to a statement on the…
Accusations fly over Saudi hospital fire that killed 24
Middle East
December 25, 2015
Accusations fly over Saudi hospital fire that killed 24
Accusations flew over who was to blame for the deaths of at least 24 people in a Saudi hospital fire,…
2015: a year of disasters and explosions for Saudi Arabia
Egypt
December 24, 2015
2015: a year of disasters and explosions for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has seen a number of natural and manmade disasters in 2015, including terrorist attacks and involvement in a…
Fire at Saudi hospital kills 25, injures 107
Middle East
December 24, 2015
Fire at Saudi hospital kills 25, injures 107
A pre-dawn fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia's southwestern port city of Jazan on Thursday killed 25 people and…
Saudis ‘commute Sir Lanka maid’s stoning death sentence’
Middle East
December 23, 2015
Saudis ‘commute Sir Lanka maid’s stoning death sentence’
A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government…
Saudi intercepts missile from Yemen
Middle East
December 21, 2015
Saudi intercepts missile from Yemen
Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile fired before dawn Monday from Yemen towards its southern border region, the coalition said, in…