Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the United Nations General Assembly to “immediately suspend” Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council because of numerous serious human rights violations. “Saudi Arabia has committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its time as a Council member,[…]
Intensified fighting and air strikes over the past 24 hours in Yemen have left 80 people dead, including 37 civilians, as lengthy peace talks in Kuwait made no headway, officials said. In the largest death toll, jets from the pro-government Saudi-led coalition killed 34 people, including 19 civilians when they[…]
As many as 5,047,088 Umrah pilgrims have so far arrived in the Kingdom since the start of the season early November, local daily Al-Madina reported on Wednesday quoting official data. According to the data, the number of Umrah pilgrims is five percent more than their number in the same period[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet of Ministers Monday reaffirmed its committed to ensuring Muslims from around the world can perform the pilgrimage. The Saudi Press Agency reported that the kingdom ‘welcomes and is honored in serving pilgrims, Umrah performers and visitors of all nationalities and it does not prevent any Muslim from[…]
Muslims in Iran could miss out on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year as Tehran and Riyadh trade blame over a failure to agree organisational details, according to media reports. A delegation from Tehran held four days of talks in Saudi Arabia last month, aimed at reaching[…]
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has agreed a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Monday that the country was building up the its Public Investment Fund to become a[…]
So far about 3.7 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia since the Umrah season started late October 2015 until April 2, 2016. According to the statistics, 2.6 million pilgrims have arrived via King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, about 740,000 through Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah and[…]
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela are ready to freeze oil production at January’s level if other producers do the same. The agreement came after a meeting in Doha on Tuesday. Oil prices have dropped below $30 a barrel in recent months, a fall of 70 percent since 2014. Counting[…]
The fourth stage of the Haj Transportation Project, which is expected to be completed soon, will reduce the travel time between Arafat and Muzdalifah to about 45 minutes, as compared to up to eight hours in the past. Implementation of this phase includes preparing routes allocated for movement and transport of[…]
“It is obvious that these remarks are more of propaganda slogans. The means and capabilities of countries are completely clear and with these propagandist bluffs, none of their problems will get resolved,” Zarif said upon his arrival in Brussels early on Monday to discuss key regional issues with European Union[…]
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