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RIYADH – The Saudi health ministry on Saturday announced five new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking the country’s death toll to 92. A statement released overnight added that 14 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were detected in the kingdom, bringing the total to 313 since the virus …

Jazan police arrested two Saudi women from Qassim and three Yemenis for allegedly trying to cross the border into Yemen to join Al-Qaeda last Thursday. The women, Mai Al-Talq and Aminah Al-Rashid, were traveling with their four children and two other boys they had allegedly duped into going along with …

Construction of what will become the next world’s tallest building is set to begin next week in Saudi Arabia. Once finished, the Kingdom Tower will stand a staggering 1km (3280 feet) high – four times taller than The Shard and over 500 feet taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the current …

The first Saudi lady joined the “ID Revolution” in which a number of Saudi citizens posted separately posts in YouTube attacking the regime. The following is a translation of the clip posted on Youtube by a lady calling herself Ali’niziyah (From the tribe of ‘): In the name of God. …

A training barracks used by Roman gladiators and the 2,000-year-old mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus could be restored with money from the Saudi royal family, in the latest effort by Italy to secure funding for its crumbling cultural heritage. In a deal brokered by Ignazio Marino, the mayor of Rome, …

“He should be ashamed to meet a leader that has four grown women locked up” – the message from two Saudi princesses to President Obama as he meets with their father, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. In an exclusive on-camera interview with Channel 4 News, we talk to Princesses Sahar and …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — MIKHLIF AL-SHAMMARI has been jailed repeatedly, declared an infidel, ruined financially and shot four times — by his own son — all for this: He believes his fellow Sunni Muslims should treat Shiites as equals. In a Middle East torn by deepening sectarian hatred, that is …

Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry has banned 50 given names including “foreign” names, names related to royalty and those it considers to be blasphemous. Saudis will no longer be able to give their children names such as Amir (prince), Linda or Abdul Nabi (Slave of the Prophet) after the civil …

For over a decade, Mecca – the holiest city in Islam – has been undergoing an unprecedented level of reconstruction to accommodate millions of pilgrims arriving year round. However, critics argue the massive expansion efforts have mercilessly destroyed invaluable historical and cultural sites, substituting them for crass commercialization and symbols …

Saudi Arabia has called on its citizens waging insurgency wars abroad to return back to the kingdom within 15 days or face imprisonment. The Friday ultimatum was an extension of a month-long deadline given to Saudis fighting outside the country to return home, the interior ministry said. Those failing to …