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Opposition to boycott swearing-in of Chavez VP
Venezuela's opposition says it will not attend the swearing-in of Hugo Chavez's anointed successor Nicolas Maduro as interim president. Opposition spokesman Angel Medina says Maduro's ascension is "a violation of the constitutional order." Critics believe Venezuela's 1999 charter stipulates that (...)

08 - 03 - 2013
Arab Contractors To Deliver Saudi's Ring Road Phase 1 With SR 470 Million
The Egyptian Giant Real Estate Developer, Arab Contractors Company, announced the opening of Saudi's ring road Phase 1 established in the central area around the Holy Mosque in Medina next year, with investments of SR 470 million while Phase 2 to be finalized by 2014. The announcement came during (...)

30 - 05 - 2012
Rights group says Saudi sorcery beheading “shocking”
International human rights organization Amnesty International has said the beheading of a Saudi Arabian woman over “sorcery” and “witchcraft” is “shocking,” and called on the ultra-conservative gulf kingdom to end the continued use of the death penalty. Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar became the (...)

13 - 12 - 2011
18 killed, 22 injured in road accident in Saudi Arabia
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia: There were 18 people killed and 22 injured in a road accident in Quraeda, eastern Medina. The passenger bus crashed into another vehicle after the end of their workday heading home. Six Egyptians were killed and two injured, one of them in severe condition. The bus is (...)

08 - 12 - 2011
Al-Azhar scholars support call to delay noon prayer
A Saudi cleric has issued a religious edict allowing Muslim worshipers in areas of Saudi Arabia that experience unusually high temperatures to delay performance of the duhr--or noon--prayer. The cleric, Abdel Muhsen el-Abiki, who also serves as a counselor in the Saudi Royal Court and the Ministry (...)

23 - 06 - 2010
Tennis: Serena Williams squeaks into Madrid semifinals
Top-ranked Serena Williams overcame Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 on Friday to reach the Madrid Open semifinals. Williams looked in trouble after failing to win a game in the second set and going 4-2 down in the third. But the defending champion broke the Spaniard's serve twice to pull out (...)

10 - 05 - 2013
At least 50 dead in Venezuela prison riot
At least 50 people were killed and 90 others wounded Friday in clashes at a prison in northwest Venezuela, a hospital director who was at the scene said. Most of those injured at the Uribana prison in Lara state suffered gunshot wounds, said the hospital official, Ruy Medina. He called the death (...)

26 - 01 - 2013
Man gets 4 months jail, 70 lashes for indecency in Prophet's Mosque
The appeals court in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia approved the verdict of a lower court in the Qatif province in the case of a 52-year-old man caught engaged in an indecent act with a 24-year-old girl in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. The man was sentenced to four months in jail, 70 whip (...)

16 - 12 - 2012
Prophet's wife Aisha was 19-years-old when married, not 9, says scholar
CAIRO: One of the most often criticisms and attacks on Islam is that the Prophet Mohamed married Aisha and began sexual relations with her when she was only 9-years-old. However, a Pakistani Islamic scholar has apparently debunked the myth, arguing that the evidence points to the fact that Aisha (...)

08 - 12 - 2012
Two Saudis arrested for shooting Egyptian, says Foreign Ministry
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Amr Roshdy said Sunday that two Saudis have been arrested for allegedly shooting an Egyptian citizen in Saudi Arabia following an argument. He said the Egyptian Consulate in Jeddah is following up on the case. Doctors at Medina al-Monawarah hospital in Saudi Arabia (...)

11 - 11 - 2012
EgyptAir To Organize 263 Flights Tomorrow
EgyptAir will organize tomorrow 263 international and interior flights; 132 travel flights, 95 international and 37 interior flights, at once, 131 arrival flights, 40 interior flights and 91 international ones. About 24 Umrah flights will come from Jeddah and 3 ones from Medina Munawara. Pilot (...)

22 - 08 - 2012
Disaster averted at Jeddah airport
CAIRO: An air disaster was averted yesterday when a Saudi Arabian Airlines Airbus 300 crash-landed at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport after developing a technical glitch, Saudi aviation officials said in a statement. Khaled Al-Khaibary, spokesman for the General Authority for Civil (...)

02 - 05 - 2012
Tunisian Govt to face Question after Crackdown
Tunisia's interior minister is to face questions in parliament after Monday's police crackdown on protesters prompted a public outcry and raised pressure on the Islamist-led government. Police used tear gas and batons to disperse stone-throwing protesters who stormed Tunis' Habib Bourguiba Avenue (...)

11 - 04 - 2012
Muslim scholar: Prophet Mohamed established first civil state
Egyptian Muslim scholar Mustafa Wahba argued that the prophet Mohamed was the first to establish a civil state at a seminar at El-Sawy Culture Wheel celebrating the Islamic New Year. When the Prophet Mohamed emigrated from Mecca to Medina, he established the pillars of the modern state on three (...)

27 - 11 - 2011
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha, also known as the ‘Feast of Sacrifice' or the ‘Greater Eid,' is a four-day Islamic feast that takes place during the Islamic month of Thul Hajj and commemorates Abraham's commitment to God. During the Islamic month of Thul Hajj, Muslims across the world celebrate the first day of (...)

06 - 11 - 2011
Iranians on Hajj sent home by Saudi for “forged visas”
At least 150 Iranians traveling to Saudi Arabia to attend the annual Hajj pilgrimage have been deported from the country after allegedly entering the country with forged visas, the Iranian foreign ministry reported on Thursday. According to the ministry's reports, the pilgrims were arrested on (...)

04 - 11 - 2011
Sudanese man beheaded for “witchcraft”
A Sudanese man has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia after being accused of sorcery and witchcraft, the country's interior ministry confirmed on Monday. The man, Abdul Hamid bin Hussein Mostafa al-Fakki, had been arrested in 2005 and charged with “witchcraft” two years later. He was sentenced to (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Sharaf to inaugurate new ‘seasons hall'
CAIRO – The new 'seasons hall' at Cairo International Airport will be inaugurated next Tuesday, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. The Omrah and Hajj seasons, as well as teachers returning at the end of the school year from Arab countries, usually overwhelm airport operations. (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
Death toll rises to 53 in attack on Mexico casino
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The death toll climbed as workers continued to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread gasoline and ignited a fire that trapped and killed at least 53 gamblers and employees. Family members gathered at the caution tape outside the (...)

26 - 08 - 2011
Taraweh prayers from Mecca to be interpreted in English, French
The Taraweh prayers from the mosques in Mecca and Medina will be broadcast in both French and English, said the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and the interpretations will be aired both on the Holy Quran channel and the Prophet Sunna channel. The simultaneous interpretations of the Taraweh (...)

30 - 07 - 2011
Ali's goal inspired us to win Crown Prince Cup: Al Hilal president
Al Hilal president Prince Abdul-Rahman Bin Musaid has hailed Egypt's striker Ahmed Ali for inspiring the club to win the Saudi Crown Prince Cup title after thrashing Al Wehda 5-0 on Friday. The Egyptian international scored the opener for Al Hilal and set up two other goals to bask in the praise (...)

16 - 04 - 2011
Journey to a rosy eternity
Fragile papyrus scrolls known collectively as the Book of the Dead ; a glossy hardback entitled Life in Paradise ; and archaeologists and epigraphers at work on the Theban necropolis spark the interest of Jill Kamil The British Museum's current exhibition The Book of the Dead shows papyri (...)

27 - 01 - 2011
Saudi Shi'ites and Sunnis scuffle on Shi'ite feast
Saudi security forces dispersed crowds of Shiite and Sunni Muslims after scuffles broke out in the city of Medina during the Shiite mourning holiday of Ashoura late on Thursday, Shi'ite sources and a local journalist said. Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia applies Sunni Islam , and minority Shi'ites (...)

18 - 12 - 2010
Collapse of a low-cost carrier
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia's low-cost carrier Sama Airlines announced that it would discontinue all flight operations as of August 23, thus declaring bankruptcy and its departure from the international air transportation market. The news came as no surprise to civil aviation experts since, according to (...)

30 - 08 - 2010
No war of words with Saudi aviation
Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday that it would not be dragged into a war of words with its Saudi counterpart over the suspension of flights to and from Cairo and the holy city of Medina. "We will not reply to the Saudi statement, simply because we believe that the strong (...)

14 - 04 - 2010
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