qualified Saudi citizens. It has also the English and translation section, which transmits SPA news in English and translates the English and French news into Arabic. There is also the political monitoring section, which listens to foreign radio stations and provides editing sections with news about current occasions. SPA has a modern information and research center, which is considered one of the biggest specialized archives in the Kingdom. The primary aim of the center is to classify and store information, in addition to providing research works, reports and statistics on various subjects. SPA has also a complete photo archive that covers the daily events in the Kingdom. It sends daily photo service by phone to its subscribers including newspapers and news agencies. It also receives foreign photo service from its offices as well as other news agencies under contracts and cooperation agreements. SPA transmits a daily 24-hour comprehensive Arabic news bulletin that contains national and international news. It also transmits an English and French news bulletins and distributes a special bulletin and photos. SPA receives news services in different languages from Arab, European, and Islamic news agencies. It also helps in retransmitting a regular news service for both International Islamic News Agency (INA) and the pool of news agencies of the nonaligned countries. Every morning, SPA issues a printed daily bulletin on important news, which is distributed, to all senior officials in the country. --More 22:13 LOCAL TIME 19:13 GMT تغريد
