The path from the holy city of Mecca to the Mina desert turned a sea of white Wednesday as throngs of Muslims began the annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj.
A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said.
Saudi Arabia's health minister was the first person in the country to receive the H1N1 vaccination Saturday in a televised event aimed at calming fears about the safety of the vaccine.
Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation into its first fatality from the H1N1 Virus as it tries to head off a swine flu epidemic before millions descend for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, health officials said.
Saudi Arabia has had its first death from swine flu, its Ministry of Health said Monday, bracing for more.
Two pilgrims from Iran have contracted the H1N1 virus, according to reports from the country's official news agency.
More than 300 men convicted by Saudi Arabia for taking part in terror plots have been jailed following trials criticized by a rights group for their lack of transparency.
Saudi Arabia missed out on an opportunity to move into pole position to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, after drawing 0-0 at already qualified South Korea in Asian Group Two.
Saudi Arabian officials beheaded and then publicly displayed the body of a convicted killer in Riyadh on Friday, an act that prompted a stiff denunciation by a leading human rights monitor.
A judge in Saudi Arabia has said husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi newspaper reported this past weekend. In one fell swoop, the judge debased Islam, vilified the kingdom and disregarded the ideals the Saudi monarch himself embraces.
The path from the holy city of Mecca to the Mina desert turned a sea of white Wednesday as throngs of Muslims began the annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj.
A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said.
Saudi Arabia's health minister was the first person in the country to receive the H1N1 vaccination Saturday in a televised event aimed at calming fears about the safety of the vaccine.
Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation into its first fatality from the H1N1 Virus as it tries to head off a swine flu epidemic before millions descend for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, health officials said.
Saudi Arabia has had its first death from swine flu, its Ministry of Health said Monday, bracing for more.
Two pilgrims from Iran have contracted the H1N1 virus, according to reports from the country's official news agency.
More than 300 men convicted by Saudi Arabia for taking part in terror plots have been jailed following trials criticized by a rights group for their lack of transparency.
Saudi Arabia missed out on an opportunity to move into pole position to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, after drawing 0-0 at already qualified South Korea in Asian Group Two.
Saudi Arabian officials beheaded and then publicly displayed the body of a convicted killer in Riyadh on Friday, an act that prompted a stiff denunciation by a leading human rights monitor.
A judge in Saudi Arabia has said husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi newspaper reported this past weekend. In one fell swoop, the judge debased Islam, vilified the kingdom and disregarded the ideals the Saudi monarch himself embraces.
A court in Saudi Arabia has granted an 8-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, after twice denying the divorce request previously, local media reported Thursday.
An appeals court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has rejected and refused to certify a court ruling allowing a 47-year-old man's marriage to an 8-year-old girl, said a relative of the girl with knowledge of the proceedings.
Almost 2,400 people worldwide were executed last year, but most countries moved a step closer toward abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria will meet in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a mini-summit designed to improve relations between the countries, according to a Saudi government official who did not want to be identified.
Saudi Arabia's religious police detained two male novelists for questioning last week after they attempted to get the autograph of a female writer at a book fair in Riyadh, according to local media reports.
Police in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca Wednesday arrested a woman for violating the country's ban on women driving, according to the Saudi English-language daily Arab News.
Saudi Arabia has asked Interpol for its help in apprehending dozens of wanted Saudis who are suspected of plotting attacks against Saudi Arabia from abroad.
The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric saying that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed.
A group fighting for women's rights in Saudi Arabia condemned a judge Wednesday for refusing to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man.
Saudi Arabia's National Day -- traditionally a day for reflections on self, religion and faith -- was marked Tuesday by an unexplained change in the traditionally conservative Saudi kingdom.
Oil prices eased Wednesday - ending at a 5-month low - as heightened worries over slumping demand and a stronger dollar offset a weekly government report showing a bigger-than-expected decline in gasoline and crude inventories.
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ruled out further increases in crude production following its June 23 announcement that it would pump an extra half-million barrels a day.
Oil settled higher on Monday after a day of volatile trading following a weekend meeting in Saudi Arabia that failed to yield concrete solutions to the world's energy problems.
Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday
Saudi Arabia this weekend will convene a special summit on oil prices that could lead to cheaper crude on the world market.
The supply and demand of oil around the world is "normal," a key adviser to Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Friday, pointing to factors including speculators and currency fluctuations for rocketing oil prices.
Oil prices drifted lower Tuesday after retreating from an all-time high of nearly $140 a barrel a day earlier.
Oil prices briefly spiked more than $5 per barrel to a trading record Monday, but crude tumbled throughout the afternoon as traders took profits after prices couldn't get over the $140 a barrel hump.
Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month, the kingdom's oil minister told UN chief Ban Ki-moon
Crude prices lost more than $3 a barrel Tuesday on a strengthened dollar and a report showing increased output from Saudi Arabia and OPEC, while gasoline reached another record high average that stretched above the $4-a-gallon threshold.
Saudi Arabia will call for a summit between oil producing countries and consumer states to discuss soaring energy prices, Information and Culture Minister Iyad Madani said Monday
Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush
Keeping up with the world's oil demands is a full-time job.
In Saudi Arabia today perhaps the biggest factor fuelling inflation is the influx of money from oil. The kingdom is the world's top oil producer -- making an estimated $2 billion from oil exports last year.
Roads in Saudi Arabia are among the world's most dangerous but one type of victim stands out: female teachers who are dying at alarming rates because of long commutes through the desert to reach remote schools
The British High Court ruled that prosecutors acted unlawfully when investigating accusations of corruption in a BAE arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Other faiths have long been banned from operating openly in Islam's birthplace. A Vatican-Saudi dialogue may change that
Not so long ago predictions that oil would break the $100 barrier seemed fanciful, alarmist even. But here we are, with the price of a single barrel of oil now into three digits and beyond.
This is not the first oil boom to deliver windfall revenue to the world's leading oil exporter, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine's Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin, local media reported Monday.
Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in a hotel or a furnished apartment without a male guardian, according to a government decision
Behind the state banquet and smiles from Queen Elizabeth and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's visit to London this week caused a wave of dissent.
In this week's Marketplace Middle East, we take a look at Saudi Arabia's economic outlook. SABB, one of the Kingdom's biggest banks, projects that oil revenues will come in at $165 billion this year. What are the other key facts about the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
Saber-rattling in the Middle East has been growing, with Israeli air strikes over Syria at the beginning of the month and France's Foreign Minister talking of war with Iran, but behind the scenes there are fears of a new arms race in the region.
Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment.
Saudi Arabia, which already has aggressively shaved its oil output in a battle to shore up prices, will reduce production by another 158,000 barrels per day beginning Thursday and more cuts are on the way, according to a media report.
Saudi Arabia has promised a comprehensive review of all of its educational textbooks and to remove all language promoting intolerance, the State Department's ambassador for religious freedom said Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia is experimenting with new techniques to tap into its supply of heavy crude oil, according to a published report Monday that says the move could help significantly increase the supply of oil to meet growing global demands.
Forty suspected militants have been arrested in Saudi Arabia over the last several days, a Saudi security source said Wednesday.
Saudi security forces shot and killed five suspected militants Monday in a two-hour gun battle in an eastern suburb of the capital, Riyadh, the Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry told CNN.
Stocks could have some trouble in early trading Friday after a report of an explosion at an Saudi Arabian oil facility and other global uncertainty lifted oil prices.
More than 2 million Muslim pilgrims from almost 180 countries started moving after sunrise Monday towards Mount Arafat to perform the central rite of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the holy city.
The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, warned Wednesday that more terrorist attacks could be in the works in the kingdom.
A high-ranking member of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia was killed Sunday in a clash between several suspected militants and security forces in the capital of Riyadh, a senior interior ministry official confirmed to CNN.
Saudi Arabia, facing mounting pressure from the U.S. and others to step up output of oil and gas amid a surge in prices, plans to more than double its investment in energy development to $50 billion in the next five years from the previous five-year period, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.
An unspecified threat has prompted U.S. officials to move American residents in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to another location, a statement from the U.S. Consulate said.
Voting got under way Thursday in Saudi Arabia's first local elections.
A telethon for tsunami victims on Saudi state-run television has raised more than $77 million, and the Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank pledged an additional $500 million for affected countries.
Saudi Arabia, criticized in the Arab world for not offering more money for tsunami disaster relief, said Tuesday it will triple the aid it has pledged to $30 million and will hold a fund-raising telethon to benefit victims.
Fighting between Saudi security forces and militants has left a police officer dead and nine others wounded, and led to the arrests of five militants, according to an Interior Ministry official.
According to a recent U.S. military intelligence report, insurgents depend on external donors to finance attacks in Iraq. Attacks the United States believes are being bankrolled with Saudi money.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia vowed on Sunday to maintain a cushion of spare supplies of up to 2 million barrels per day (bpd) to meet future demand growth.
Oil prices are hovering just below $50 a barrel after breaking above that historic level on concerns over tight global supplies.
A French national who worked as an engineer in Saudi Arabia was ambushed and killed by gunmen as he drove through a Jeddah neighborhood early Sunday.
The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was kidnapped and beheaded in Saudi Arabia last month, has been found in a freezer, a Saudi Interior Ministry official said.
Another 27 wanted militants have surrendered to Saudi security officials over the last several days under a month-long leniency offer set to expire this week, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.
In a bold, chilling claim posted on an Islamist Web site, terrorists linked to al Qaeda say sympathizers within the Saudi security forces helped them kidnap American Paul Johnson.
Soon after a U.S. hostage was beheaded Friday in Saudi Arabia, a senior State Department official warned that further attacks are likely and urged Americans to leave the kingdom.
Britain's Foreign Office says non-essential staff and their relatives at the British embassy in Saudi Arabia can leave the kingdom "if they wish."
Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it will dissolve all Saudi international charities and fold them into a single government-sponsored entity, in an effort to stop the flow of money to terrorist organizations.
The United States and Saudi Arabia will ask the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to provide more help in blocking the assets of a Muslim charity accused of backing terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, a senior Saudi official told CNN Tuesday night.
The attack in Saudi Arabia on an oil workers' compound in Khobar last weekend, sent a shock wave through world oil markets. When U.S. traders hit the floor after the holiday weekend, the impact was immediate: Oil prices jumped almost two and a half dollars per barrel -- a new high.
Oil prices reached a record $42 a barrel on Tuesday, following a weekend terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia. Although the major indexes closed up, the S&P 500 dipped below its 50-day moving average during the day -- which some market watchers interpreted as a signal of a weaker market ahead.
Saudi Arabian authorities say security has been tightened around possible Western targets after a weekend attack left 22 people dead.
Oil prices soaring in the wake of the terrorist carnage in Saudi Arabia over the weekend are just another sign of how vulnerable we are to the geopolitics of petroleum and the madness of assassins.
Oil prices jumped by more than a dollar in the first main trading session since a weekend attack in Saudi Arabia by suspected al Qaeda militants left 22 people dead.
Oil prices are back above $40 a barrel Tuesday in the first trading since suspected al Qaeda militants killed 22 people in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
The "terrorist premium" on oil prices is expected to rise in coming weeks following the weekend attack by militants on foreign oil workers in Saudi Arabia.
U.S. stocks surged early Monday, led by gains in the technology sector, after Saudi Arabia agreed to boost oil output.
With OPEC planning to cut oil production, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States met Thursday with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and said Riyadh is committed to heading off problems in the world energy market.
Top U.S. counterterrorism officials told a congressional panel on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has demonstrated a turnaround in cooperating with U.S.-led efforts to stem the flow of financial support to terrorist organizations.
Amid accusations that a Saudi-based Islamic charity has financed terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the kingdom is moving to change the way it raises charity funds abroad.
The Saudi government has launched an investigation into why its tourism Web site posted a notice that travel visas to Saudi Arabia would not be issued to people of the Jewish faith, according to the spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington.
British nationals should forgo all but "essential" travel to Saudi Arabia because of possible terrorist attacks that "may be in the final stages of preparation," according to the British Foreign Office.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are asking for international help to block the assets of a Muslim charity accused of backing terrorist groups, including al Qaeda.
Muslims are converging on the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, Islam's annual pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Prophet Mohammad.
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