JAZAN: The Kingdom is fully capable of defending its land, securing its borders and repelling intruders, said a high-ranking Saudi official during a visit to the border zone where Yemeni rebels attacked... Full Story
RIYADH: The Kingdom will not bar anyone considered a high risk for swine flu from performing the Haj this year, said Minister of Health Abdullah Al-Rabeeah. Al-Rabeeah said it is the responsibility... Full Story
JEDDAH: In a bizarre twist to the two-and-half-year public matrimonial dispute between Saudi national Saeed Al-Shahrani and his Canadian wife Nathalie Morin, Al-Shahrani is now reported to be willing... Full Story
MAKKAH: Thousands of foreign workers in villages and hamlets are complaining they cannot benefit from health insurance due to a lack of local hospitals and health facilities. Trading and industrial... Full Story
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will announce a new national unity government to include Hezbollah in the next few days, politicians said on Saturday. Lebanon has... Full Story
TEHRAN: Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the UN-backed plan... Full Story
According to Denmark’s finance minister meeting in Scotland yesterday with his counterparts from the G20, there is now no chance next month’s Copenhagen climate summit will produce a replacement... Full Story
WHEN Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul visits India early next year he will be representing a nation that has reinvented its geostrategic role through an independent foreign policy in barely eight... Full Story
