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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has specified penalties for 12 violations by all government employees in different sectors starting with a warning, admonition, docking of three months' (...)
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JEDDAH — The Ministry of Health is preparing to launch within days expanded testing in Jeddah to assess the rate of the spread of the coronavirus infection in the city as it is continuing to take precautionary and preventive (...)
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JEDDAH — As Saudi returnees are being kept in five-star quarantines, one wonders what exactly is happening there.
Providing details of the entire process, the adviser to the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah Governorate Dr. (...)
I DON'T remember exactly when was the first time I heard the phrase "think outside the box" or how many times I heard it on different occasions, but it is today a part of our usual terminology. A follower of world news through various media outlets, (...)
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JEDDAH — The Ministry of Health has issued directives to all its health facilities not to make it conditional for an adult woman to obtain her guardian's approval in order to be provided health services, informed sources have told (...)
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JEDDAH — The Ministry of Interior, represented by the Directorate General of Passports (Jawazat), has started issuing and renewing passports for Saudi women aged 21 and above via the Absher online portal. This is in implementation (...)
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JEDDAH — A thesis submitted for a master's degree at Jeddah University has uncovered rampant administrative corruption at the Ministry of Health.
The thesis, which was approved by a scientific committee at the university, said a (...)
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JEDDAH — The Saudi Embassy in the Philippines is coordinating with relevant Philippine agencies involved in a search operation for Saudi trainee pilot Abdullah Al-Shareef who went missing in Occidental Mindoro island during a (...)
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JEDDAH — Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah launched the "Med Consult" app at the 4th Global Ministerial Patient Summit here on Saturday.
"Med Consult", launched in cooperation with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief (...)
Former Qatari intelligence officer and opposition member Ali Al-Dohniem has unmasked the devious practices of the country's espionage agency to frame top businessmen and civil servants, in cooperation with the Mossad, to bring them in line with (...)
EVERY time the world believes that terrorist groups have reached the bottom point of criminality, a new incident comes up to prove that they are capable of falling to unprecedented low levels.
This is exactly what happened when a terrorist suicide (...)
WITH the repercussions of the recent events and the result of the political crisis between a number of Arab countries and the coup regime in Qatar, the biggest question that is emerging on the scene is: Who actually governs Qatar?
With the (...)
KISSINGER Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm, is known as the mysterious advisory office owned by the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. This office employs many influential former government officials and thus has, over (...)
THE Arab world is being "reconfigured" and today it is destined to be located between two main axes: the axis of stability and the desired centrality and the axis of extremism and sedition which supports fundamentalist groups at the expense of state (...)
I WAS not surprised at the controversial statements made by Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani against Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and his support for Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ever since the Emir's coup (...)
THE extraordinary warm reception accorded to US President Donald Trump in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, last week shows a dramatic shift in relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States of America as compared to the previous administration of (...)
By the time this column is published, US President Donald Trump will have completed his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The fact that President Trump chose the Kingdom as the first country to visit since taking office in January reflects the (...)
THE general elections in France are finally over and many heaved a sigh of relief!
France chose to live in a moderate and coexistence manner and decided not to vote for extremism and racism. Europe won and the bid for secession lost.
Now the (...)
THE results of the first round of the presidential elections in France brought to the fore the growing signs of the end of the traditional party system in the world, whether it is the right-wing party or the left-wing party; both of them have (...)
IN the world of American journalism there are the two media giants — The New York Times and The Washington Post — which cannot be ignored. The former is a heavyweight known for its various press releases, but the latter is widely read and has (...)
THERE are reports of a deal being cooked up for the "salvation" of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Russia or rather Putin, the protector of Assad, wants an exceptional price in exchange for giving up and agreeing to his departure.
It is a (...)
WHY did the United States carry out airstrike against Syria?
Firstly, the US did not strike Syria as proclaimed by the national media and the media that belongs to the terrorist group Hezbollah but it hit a military airbase fully operated by the (...)
WHEN a party seeks to justify a point of view emotionally and far from objectivity, the argument enters into an issue that is beyond the main subject.
This is what is happening today in "rejecting the idea" of the proposed sale of a stake in Saudi (...)
It is no secret that a feud has been going on for a long time between commercial airlines from the United States and Canada and Gulf-based airlines such as Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and especially Emirates Airlines.
The US and Canadian (...)
IS the large US economy heading into a new era under the new presidency? This is an important question and any attempt to find a holistic answer will give us a sense in which direction the wind is blowing.
US President Donald Trump has expressed his (...)