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RIYADH — A minor earthquake, measuring 3.19 degrees on the Richter scale, with 2.45 km depth, was recorded in Al-Shuqaiq governorate in the southwestern Jazan region.
The Seismic monitoring stations of the National Network for (...)
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RIYADH — A woman infected with coronavirus gave birth to a baby boy in a Riyadh hospital in what is believed to be the first such case in the Riyadh region.
The baby is in good health while the health condition of the mother is (...)
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RIYADH — The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture announced the setting up of an electronic mechanism for obtaining temporary movement permits for owners of farms, livestock and beekeepers. These permits are provided in (...)
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RIYADH — The Ministry of Education has asked all schools across the Kingdom not to impede entry of ambulance cars into their premises to transport emergency cases whenever needed for any reason.
Deputy Minister Abdul Rahman (...)
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RIYADH — A man, his wife and three children died when their apartment in Al-Faisaliyyah district of Riyadh caught fire on Saturday, the Civil Defense said.
The apartment was on the second floor of a three-story building.
The Civil (...)
RIYADH — At least three more people, all of them Saudis, have died in rain-related accidents in Makkah and Riyadh, the Civil Defense announced on Tuesday.
With this the death toll from heavy rains and torrential floods in various parts of the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Red Crescent's women's section has trained 931 women in first aid over the past five months.
Riyadh Red Crescent spokesman Abdullah Al-Muraibidh said the women's section offered 56 training workshops during the past five months.
"The (...)
SOME people love to volunteer and help other human beings in need. Nora, whose family name I am not going to mention here at her request, is one of those people. Together with her late husband, she came up with the creative idea to feed the poor in (...)
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a poor country. However, around 1 million Saudis have left the country in search of a better future. Every year, expatriate workers transfer around SR150 billion. Are Saudis leaving their country because expatriate (...)
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RIYADH/DAMMAM — "Bury me in Madinah, take good care of my wife and pay my debts to a commercial bank and a debt of $800 to a prison mate."
These were the last wishes of Abdullah Azzam Al-Qahtani, a Saudi prisoner, who was executed (...)
A man poured acid on his divorced wife's 90-year-old father. The man also set alight the car of his divorced second wife's brother and fled.
However, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Al-Kharj Police managed to quickly arrest the (...)
Civil Defense workers rescued two Saudis who were found wandering in the Al-Dulam Desert. The two men were found 20 kilometers from their car which they abandoned after it broke down.
Three rescue teams were dispatched from Al-Ain rural center and (...)