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By BRIAN STELTERThe New York TimesAugust 30, 2009 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When the heiress Paris Hilton traveled here in June and July to audition female friends for her show “My New BFF,” her producers had access to state-of-the-art stu...
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By PETER SPIEGEL The Wall Street JournalAUGUST 31, 2009WASHINGTON -- The chief executive of the Italian firm named by the United Arab Emirates as having delivered containers with weapons from North Korea to an Iran-bound ship said his company receiv...
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The Wall Street JournalAUGUST 30, 2009Conflict is inevitable unless the West moves quickly to stop a nuclear Tehran....
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By Doug Beattie The GuardianSunday 30 August 2009 We must finish the job in Afghanistan – the geopolitical alternative is too terrible to consider....
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By Rob Evans The GuardianMonday 31 August 2009 Ambassadors' indiscreet reports to Washington reveal the lighter side to royals' 'pomp-filled' state visits....
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By Richard Spencer The Telegraph30 Aug 2009Dubai's "build it and they'll come" philosophy is famously eye-popping. You have the symbols of excess: the palm-shaped villa compounds in the sea, or the planet's tallest skyscraper. But those are as ...
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Oil and Gas OnlineAugust 31, 2009Mustang Al-Hejailan Engineering to provide international engineering capability to Saudi oil & gas industry....
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By DONNA ABU-NASR The Associated PressRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as "the rose-red city, 'half as old as time,'" and which provided the climactic backdrop...
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By Shahid Ali KhanSaudi GazetteMonday, 31 August 2009RIYADH – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, Chairman Kingdom Holding Company, announced here Sunday the inauguration of Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, a charitable and philanthropic organ...
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By Abdul Hadi Al-Sama’eil Saudi GazetteMonday, 31 August 2009DAMMAM – Worshippers in the Eastern Province have been warned they could be arrested by officials if they conduct prayers in mosques sporting “unsuitable” fashions....
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By Majid Al-MaimouniSaudi GazetteMonday, 31 August 2009RIYADH – Faults in the communications system between the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and some brokerage firms caused investors estimated losses of over SR100 million Sunday. ...
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By Alison WeirArab NewsMonday 31 August 2009 Last week Sweden's largest daily newspaper published an article containing shocking material: Testimony and circumstantial evidence indicating that Israelis may have been harvesting internal organs...
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By Ali Al-Zahrani Arab NewsMonday 31 August 2009 RIYADH: The sight of a hemiplegic person sitting in a wheelchair on a street corner in south Riyadh collecting donations from passersby makes people wonder what charity organizations are doing...
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By Galal Fakkar Arab News Monday 31 August 2009JEDDAH: During an event congratulating Second Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Prince Naif on his recent ascension, members of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) discussed with the p...
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By Samir Al-Saadi & Muhammad Al-Humaidan Arab NewsMonday 31 August 2009 JEDDAH: Second Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Prince Naif has emphasized that the Kingdom’s policy of enticing “repentant” extremists will not change in reactio...
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Reuters Aug 31, 2009 CANBERRA (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government must fight corruption and quickly deliver services to Afghans, because Taliban militants are filling gaps and winning support to their cause, a top counter-insurgency expert sa...
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upi.com Aug. 27, 2009 SANAA, Yemen, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- As fighting escalates in Yemen between the army and Shiite rebels in the northwestern mountains along the border with Saudi Arabia, Riyadh is becoming increasingly alarmed that Iran is armin...
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By Maamoun Youssef Associated Press Aug. 31, 2009 CAIRO - Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility yesterday for a suicide attack that wounded a Saudi prince and said the bomber - a wanted militant who had fled to Yemen - arrived on a royal jet after c...
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By: Observer staff Yemen ObserverAug 29, 2009The Studies and Economic Media Center (SEMC) has uncovered an organized means of smuggling livestock to neighboring Saudi Arabia. Payments between $10-50 are made at checkpoints to get travel permits...
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ReutersSun Aug 30, 2009 KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has tightened security at oil facilities after the country's anti-terror chief escaped a suicide attack, guards at Abqaiq, the world's biggest oil processing plant, said on Sund...
