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Saudi Arabia suspends umrah over COVID-19
RIYADH: The Saudi Interior Ministry announced yesterday the temporary suspension of Umrah for citizens and residents as part of preventative measures against novel coronavirus outbreak, reported Xinhua news agency. The ministry, in a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency,
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Donation was applied by Najib, not offered by Saudi Arabia – Jamil
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court was told today that the Malaysian Government, through former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, had actually applied for a donation from Saudi Arabia and that it was never an offer made by the
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Saudi Arabia gives compensation to Makkah crane collapse victims’ kin
PUTRAJAYA: Saudi Arabia yesterday presented compensation to the families of seven Malaysian pilgrims who were killed when a crane collapsed onto the Grand Mosque in Makkah during the 2015 haj season. The compensation of SAR 1 million (equivalent to RM1.17
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Turkey, rights groups decry Saudi verdict on Khashoggi murder
Turkey and international rights groups have led condemnation of a Saudi court verdict over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying it failed to deliver justice. Five people were sentenced to death yesterday over the brutal killing of the writer by
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Five put to death for Khashoggi’s murder, UN rep calls it ‘mockery’
RIYADH/WASHINGTON: Yesterday, Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a UN investigator accused it of making a “mockery” of justice by allowing the masterminds of last year’s
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PM Imran Khan cancels Malaysia trip to appease Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has cancelled his scheduled visit to Malaysia and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will be representing Pakistan in his place at the Kuala Lumpur Summit scheduled for December 18-20. Among the most notable Muslim leaders
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U.S. grounds Saudi pilots, halts military training after base shooting
WASHINGTON: Pentagon yesterday announced it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.
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Saudi airman for training suspected in fatal shooting at Florida naval base
PENSACOLA: A Saudi Air Force second lieutenant killed four people and wounded eight others yesterday in an unexplained shooting rampage at a US Navy base in Florida where he was training, US officials told Reuters. Sheriff’s deputies responding to the
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‘Time to take out our swords’: Inside Iran’s plot to attack Saudi Arabia
Four months before a swarm of drones and missiles crippled the world’s biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, Iranian security officials gathered at a heavily fortified compound in Tehran. The group included the top echelons of the Islamic Revolutionary
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Two former Twitter employees accused of spying for Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON: Two former employees of Twitter Inc and a third man from Saudi Arabia face US charges of spying for the kingdom by digging up private user data and giving it to Saudi officials in exchange for payment, according to
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