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  • Vacation Habits
    Dubai top destination for Saudi vacationers

    Dubai is the favorite destination for Saudi tourists, mainly for short vacations. Official statistics of the emirate for 2014 revealed that 1.8 million Saudis visited Dubai. According to experts and operators in the travel and tourism industry, Cairo and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt ranked second on the list, with the number of travelers to the two holiday destinations growing by 300 percent.

  • Border Security
    The Great Wall of Saudi Arabia?

    Saudi Arabia has been constructing a 600-mile East-West barrier on its Northern Border with Iraq since September.

  • Saudi Culture
    Saudi Arabia’s historic Souq Okaz to kick off Thursday

    Saudi Arabia's Souq Okaz festival will start Thursday with different activities including presentations on old Arab poets, folklore theater and exhibitions.

  • Paris Attack
    Saudi Arabia condemns ‘cowardly terrorist’ shooting in Paris

    Saudi Arabia condemned on Wednesday the shooting at a French newspaper in Paris that killed at least a dozen people, including 10 journalists, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

  • Egypt
    New York Times Editorial: Egypt’s Appalling Crackdown on Gays

    Even if they were acquitted on the ludicrous charge of “debauchery,” the 26 Egyptian men on trial in the government’s latest crackdown on gays are likely to suffer a lifetime of public scorn.

  • Media
    Saudi TV anchors begin donning hijab

    The Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has begun implementing a new dress code for its women TV anchors effective from Thursday, say sources.

  • Islamic State
    Dozens of Saudis who join IS ‘die at Kurdish hands’

    Scores of Saudi citizens who joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State have been killed in fights with Kurdish forces, Al-Hayat daily reported.

  • Christians in Iraq
    As Christmas approaches, Baghdad Christians lament empty pews

    Ringed by concrete blast walls and police checkpoints, St. George’s has seen its congregation shrink for the past decade. The instability and violence following the U.S. invasion in 2003 have driven many Christians out of the country. The nation’s Christian population has plummeted from more than a million to what community leaders estimate as less than 400,000 today.Now the conquests by extremists from the Islamic State, known for their cutthroat brutality and intolerance for other religions, have delivered another blow to Christians in their historic heartland.

  • Saudi - Egypt Power Grid
    KSA – Egypt Power Grid costing US$ 1.5 billion to kick off in 2015

    The Saudi-Egyptian Electricity Grid project will start next year at a cost of at least US$ 1.5 billion, according to officials, said news reports in AMEinfo. Fourteen Arab states will join the power linkage system between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, says Saleh al-Awaji, an undersecretary in the kingdom’s Ministry of Water and Electricity. The project will be awarded mid-2015, and take three years to complete,” AFP quotes Awaji as saying.

  • Awaser
    7,532: No. of wives, children left abroad by Saudis

    A charity cares for 7,532 Saudis abandoned by their fathers and husbands in 31 countries around the world, an official from the organization has revealed.