Saudi Arabia

September 1, 2003

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Israel's Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon told the cabinet Monday that the army was prepared to launch a ground strike in the Gaza Strip if the firing of

August 31, 2003

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Saudi Arabia's King Fahd bin Abdulaziz has highlighted the need to combat "extremist ideologies" which led some Saudi youth into joining "terrorist" g

August 28, 2003

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A British soldier has been killed and another wounded in southern Iraq. The two troops came under fire from small arms fire while in Basra, a military

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Two major Saudi Aramco projects are under way to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel, an effort that will significantly cut emissions of toxic sulfur oxides from diesel-powered motor vehicles and industria

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Oracle Insurance Brokers, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) insurance brokerage firm and financial planning consultancy will be joining the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA) in a bi

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Saudi real estate developer Aqar Holdings says rapid population growth; increased spending power and rising living standards will continue to fuel the expansion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s

August 27, 2003

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Spain's King Juan Carlos received in Mallorca on Wednesday Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Riyadh region, SPA reported.   In the course o

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Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States met in Washington on Tuesday with the US Secretary of State, Collin Powell, accord

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A prisoner swap is "imminent" and will take place in the next few days, Beirut's <i>Daily Star</i> reported Wednesday, citing a Lebanese government so

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Iraq will need "several tens of billions" of dollars from overseas in the next year to rebuild its infrastructure and revive its economy, said top US civil administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer in an int

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Luxury hotel group Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts has announced two significant new properties in Saudi Arabia this month, bringing its portfolio in the Kingdom to five, three of which were added in the

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Middle East consumers are increasingly making the decision to switch to digital pay television. The trend is revealed in a new qualitative research study conducted by Feedback Market Research for Show

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Qatar Airways expects that it will now start commercial services to Basra, Iraq on September 6, after coalition authorities delayed the introduction of commercial services to the southern Iraqi city o

August 26, 2003

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Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Mohsen Aminzadeh concluded his three-day visit to Afghanistan and left Kabul for Tehran on Tue

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Pakistani national Zahir Khan Shah was beheaded in the Saudi Red Sea port city of Jeddah on Tuesday after being convicted of smuggling heroin into the