AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers, here to hold a joint meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, denounced the recent brutal Israeli attacks on Gaza, killing a number of people, injuring others and demolishing homes and properties.
In a (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Tunisian Premier Hammadi Jebali met here today with David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Attended by Tunisian Central Bank Governor, Chadli Ayari, the meeting discussed aspects of financial cooperation between (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Germany unveiled plans Wednesday to speed the
withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, pulling out 30 per cent of
the force, which currently numbers 4,760, by February 2014, dpa reported.
The numbers were revealed by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle
and (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, November 14, 2012, SPA -- Rector of King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Dr. Osama Sadeg Tayyeb received here today an academic delegation from South Korean universities headed by Director of Kai-Ming University, currently on a visit to Saudi Arabia.
During the visit, the South (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah approved turning two limited liability companies to closed joint stock companies with a capital of SR 550 million.
This came in a statement issued here today by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki by telephone, the White House said.
"Prime Minister Maliki congratulated the Vice President and President (Barack) Obama on their re-election," the White House said in a (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulations to King Albert II of Belgium on the anniversary of King's Day.
In his own name and on behalf of the people and government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Wholesale inflation fell in October as a big decline in gasoline and other energy prices offset an increase in food costs, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.
The Labor Department said its producer price index (PPI), which measures price pressures before (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of congratulations to King Albert II of Belgium on the anniversary of King's Day.
In his cable, the Crown Prince wished the King permanent good health and (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- The German news agency dpa and the American news agency Associated Press (AP) have signed a long-term content sharing agreement, including text and photography, the two companies announced Wednesday in Hamburg and New York.
Stories and photos produced by AP (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- The United Nations admitted Wednesday that it failed to protect civilians during the final days in Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 resulting in the slaughter of thousands of civilians, according to dpa.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the report on the UN (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA - South Korean Airways has resumed its direct flights between Riyadh - Incheon after a hiatus of more than 15 years, and the first flight arrived here yesterday.
The Director General of King Khalid International Airport Eng. Abdullah bin Mohammed Hamad Al-Tassan (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA - A helicopter carrying victims of a car accident to a hospital in northeastern Iran crashed on Wednesday and all 10 people on board died, state TV said.
The helicopter was en route to the northeastern city of Mashhad when it went down, according to Mohammad (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA - Japan will hold a general election on December 16 after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolves the lower house, the
Kyodo News agency reported Wednesday, citing a ruling Democratic Party of Japan official.
"I think I could dissolve the lower house Friday" if (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- The 2nd foreign-ministers-level for strategic dialogue between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Russia started here this evening.
Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Federal (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- President Barack Obama said the U.S. economy cannot afford a tax increase on all Americans and is calling on congressional Republicans to support an extension of existing tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less.
Obama said he is confident that he (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Libya's new government took the oath of office
before the National Congress on Wednesday with 24 ministers including the premier, dpa quoted the official Libyan News
Agency (LANA) as reporting.
The government formed by Prime Minister Ali Zidan officially (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Members of the African Union announced support for a regional force to restore security in north Mali, UPI cited an AU security commissioner as saying.
Members of the Economic Community of West African States were called on by the U.N. Security Council to (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- The Joint Action Egyptian-European Union (EU) Team held a closed political dialogue session here today, co-chaired by the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Kamil Amr and EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- U.S. stocks briefly trimmed losses on Wednesday as President Barack Obama pushed for his proposal to have the wealthy pay more in taxes as a way to tame the federal deficit, Reuters reported.
Taking a hard line in his opening bid before he begins fiscal talks (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Saudi ambassador to Niger, Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Dayel, met here yesterday with Deputy Mayor of Niamey, Mawiya Kaza.
During the meeting, the Saudi ambassador congratulated the Deputy Mayor on the occasion of choosing Niamey as the Capital of Islamic Culture (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Member States arrived here this evening to discuss the Syrian crisis and its developments.
They were Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for the Foreign Affairs of Oman; Sheikh Hamad bin (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- Prophet Mohammed's Higra "Flight" to Madina from Makkah, was indeed, the first practical step that laid ground to build the entity of Islam and civilization, Organization of Islamic Cooperation chief said.
Prof. Akmaluddin Ihsanoglu pointed out in a speech to (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA -- In the worst single incident for Kenyan police in living memory, 38 officers were killed in northern Kenya over the weekend by heavily armed cattle rustlers, according to injured police reservists who were on the scene.
Local media reports put the number at (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1433, Nov 14, 2012, SPA - At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday in a series of explosions in Iraq, police said.
Nine of the victims died in the northern city of Kirkuk, where bombs hit a group of construction workers, the offices of a Kurdish political party and (...)