Saudi Arabia News

Twenty seven retail food outlets in a Saudi Arabian city have been shut down by health authorities.

RIYADH: The Saudi government yesterday welcomed the re-election of Nabih Berri as Lebanon's Parliament Speaker and naming of Saudi-born billionaire Saad Hariri as Prime Minister.

Saudi Arabian steel maker South Steel Company has signed an agreement with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund for a $160 million loan to partially fund the construction of the $1.35 billion first phase of the Jazan steel mill.

Issa told Reuters he was not considering altering his stake in any of the firms in which he is a shareholder, including Saudi Hotels, Savola Group, Riyad Bank and Banque Saudi Fransi, Calyon's Saudi affiliate.

It has happened twice. In February 2006 and last October, millions of Saudis saw their savings evaporate overnight as the Saudi bourse, the Arab worlda s biggest, crashed.

RIYADH: US President Barack Obama wants to foster the historic US relationship with Saudi Arabia and defend trade links from competition, without raising questions about democracy in the Gulf Arab ally.

European aerospace and defense contractor EADS NV has won a major contract with Saudi Arabia to supply a border security system covering 9,000 kilometers of the kingdom's land and sea frontiers, the company said Wednesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The public sector Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants Ltd.

A kilometre below a rock-strewn green mountain in western Saudi Arabia, half a dozen Saudi and Filipino miners in orange helmets and olive-green overalls are boring into the ore veins of the Al Amar gold mine.

A consortium of Arab states have set up a joint anti-piracy naval force to prevent the spread of piracy from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea and Gulf.

Via Arab News , a story datelined Jeddah: Expertise sought to quickly identify swine flu carriers .

Canada has assured the family of a Canadian sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia over a deadly schoolyard brawl that it is pursuing all avenues to assist him, officials said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its princes over charitable donations that were allegedly funneled to al-Qaida. The court, in an order Monday, is leaving in place the ruling of a federal appeals court that the country and the princes are protected by ...

Saudi Arabia's first two of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons have been flown to the country, less than two weeks after a formal roll-out ceremony was held in the UK.

The catchy slogan, "Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us," is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoking by offering an attractive incentive.

RIYADH: Saudi militants being tried in special secret courts are allowed to have lawyers to help their defence, the country's top human rights official said yesterday.

The judicial wrangling in Saudi Arabia over a Montreal man facing beheading is a good sign, says Trade Minister Stockwell Day, because it shows the country's top court isn't sold on a lower court's ruling.

RIYADH: The Saudi job market does not need more graduates in Islamic studies, the head of one of Saudi Arabia's newest universities said in remarks published on Sunday.

This backdrop image, captured by chance during an Airbus event at the Paris Air Show, has sparked curiosity after it appeared to show the Saudi Arabian Airlines logo accompanying an unidentified four-engined aircraft.

Trade Minister Stockwell Day has told the family of a Montreal man facing beheading in Saudi Arabia that Ottawa is doing everything it can to assist him.