week intraday highs. Declines in commodities pressured European stocks to turn lower Monday, remaining more than 15 percent below their 52-week highs.
Helping U.S. stocks stabilize overnight was news the People's Bank of China raised the midpoint (...)
Omari stressed in a statement to Saudi Press Agency that the exercise "Al-Samsam 5" has been prepared in advance and programmed within the range of strategic plans for training and the development of the efficiency of Saudi forces, noting that the (...)
Turki reviewed in his speech the Kingdom's achievements in combating terrorism as a major threat to the industrial security through targeting industrial and vital facilities by its terrorist operations.
He stressed that the Kingdom has fought (...)
more than 100,000 people - had been evacuated to temporary shelters, but that elsewhere villagers had returned to their homes to begin cleaning up.
The 1,731-meter-high (5,680-foot-high) Mount Kelud in eastern Java - Indonesia's most densely (...)
Assad deliberately turned the battle to a sectarian conflict and brought fighters to support him from Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
On the State of South Sudan, Al-Riyadh newspaper expressed pessimism about the possibility of (...)
Khelaiwi said the descending from Arafat this year scored record times as the first contingent arriving from Arafat stood at Muzdalifah at 10:45p.m. with the last group settled in the valley at 12:10 midnight.
He said the move from Arafat to (...)
Miqbel said all pilgrims who opted to visit Madina before Hajj have arrived in Makkah by yesterday to prepare for their journey to Arafat, the climax of Hajj.
He declared that for the first time the Madina-Makkah journey on this day passed without a (...)
Harthi confirmed the success of the Civil Defense plan for Arafat Day, noting that not a single incident marring the event was reported.
He reported that 3000 Civil Defense squads took part in the Day of Arafat, assisted by Support teams in Mina and (...)
Sulaiman, Vice President for Renewable Energy at the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), will speak on the significance of renewable energy for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in addressing the country's human and natural (...)
Turki said in a press statement, " Sergeant Major Hassan Misfer Al-Qahtani has been one of security men assigned to guard Saudi diplomatic missions. He has been one among those who are keen to serve pilgrims. He has had the honor to do so in a (...)
smoking regulations go into place Sunday in the international and domestic terminals of Jeddah's airport. Fines of SR200 will be levied on those found smoking in restricted areas. We expect that it will be the first of many restrictions, which, if (...)
1 carriers, Saudi Telecom's Global Wholesale MPLS Service, will permit regional operators to offer their multi-national enterprise customers with comprehensive regional and global IP-VPN solutions that are highly secure and reliable in addition to (...)
Building of eleven hospitals in cities of Riyadh Province.
- Construction and equipping of 44 health centers in Riyadh city, two hospitals in the eastern and northern parts of the capital city, and a specialized center for treatment of (...)
time reservoir surveillance and management as well as significant business value to our various upstream disciplines,” said Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani, executive director of Petroleum Engineering and Development. “Every producing field will be (...)
going advancement is Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), that helps in large scale food irrigation and biological control of pests. The use of isotopes and radiation techniques in agriculture come under this category. Leading organizations have been (...)
including Schlumberger, Boeing, Halliburton, and Dow Chemical as well as SABIC and Saudi Aramco.
The launch of KAUST accelerates efforts that have been going on for some time through higher education and specialized training to enhance the (...)
Adli said that the 6th meeting of the interior ministers of Iraq's neighboring countries was held in an atmosphere of understanding and fully awareness that all are working in the interest of Iraq.
In a press statement following the signing (...)
Mansouri hoped that the Symposium will contribute to activating the mechanisms of cooperation to achieve greater extent of readiness and preparedness among GCC civil defense directorates through joint training programs.
On his part, the Director (...)
based society.
The newspaper noted the Ministry of Education's announcement to the press yesterday in which it said it start in the next year, the application of new syllabus and text books. "Firstly, this is a natural move to make the required (...)
Belhaid, Director General of the Passports Department, at the weekend inaugurated the new e-service which will allow residents of the Kingdom to process their re-entry visas through the “Short Message Service” known as SMS.
The new service launched (...)
Beshr, Director General of Police Traffic in the Kingdom, says the Experts Commission at the Council of Ministers has approved in principle the enforcement of the compulsory insurance on government vehicles.
He pointed out that the system defining (...)
Nanochemistry and applications,*Design and synthesis,*Structure and properties, Industrial, pharmaceutical, biomedical and environmental applications.
2- Design and Applications of New Organic Functional Materials, Development of novel synthetic (...)
to achieve stability while at the same time preserving the dynamic potential of the old system to bring a better way of life to billions of people. The solutions will challenge the best minds among us. How this process works itself out will have (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques chairs Cabinet meeting. A grace period of one month given to real estate shareholders to respond to subpoenas.
-- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stresses the continuity in the prosecution of persons with deviant (...)
parliamentary action, Dr Bin Humeid said that mutual visits and meetings between officials of the Shoura Council and the Turkish National Assembly are under way in all seriousness in order to take advantage of both bodies.
He pointed to the visit (...)