RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has approved awarding the King Abdulaziz Medal of the Third Class to 200 Saudi male and female citizens who have donated their organs. Each one of these citizens donated a major organ, whether (...)
JEDDAH — The Saudi Council of Ministers reiterated Saudi Arabia's call to the international community, especially the permanent members of the UN Security Council, to urgently intervene to end the famine in the Gaza Strip and halt the war of (...)
NEOM — The Saudi Council of Ministers called on the international community, especially the permanent members of the Security Council, to take immediate measures to compel the Israeli occupation authorities to stop their crimes against the (...)
RIYADH — Saudis under the age of 35 comprised 69.4 percent of the total Saudi population. This data was revealed by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) on the occasion of the International Youth Day, which falls on August 12.
The GASTAT (...)
RIYADH — The number of individual investment portfolios in Saudi Arabia's main stock market rose by 13.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, reaching 13,562,817 portfolios, an increase of 1,611,246 compared to 11,951,571 portfolios in Q1 (...)
Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve has launched the Middle East's first all-female sea ranger corps, just ahead of World Ranger Day on July 31.
The new female sea rangers will patrol the Reserve's 170-kilometer Red Sea coastline alongside male (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel's ground offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack.
The UN agency accused Israeli forces of attacking a building housing its (...)
MADINAH — The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque announced that 1,958,076 worshippers prayed in the Rawdah at the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah during the 1446 Hajj season.
The figure includes (...)
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country. The ICC warrants, issued on Tuesday, accuse the (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi National Center for Nonprofit Sector (NCNP) has referred 21 commercial entities, 26 websites, and three influencers to the relevant authorities to take regulatory measures. This move follows monitoring of violations of relevant (...)
Indonesian authorities suspended the search for 29 people still missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Bali, citing worsening weather and low visibility that hampered rescue operations.
The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry, carrying 53 passengers (...)
A judge has denied bail to Sean "Diddy" Combs after a jury convicted the hip-hop mogul of transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted him of the most serious charges: racketeering and sex-trafficking.
Lawyers for the recording artist had (...)
Two US firefighters have been killed and a third wounded after a man intentionally started a fire and began shooting at first responders in a "total ambush" which lasted several hours, authorities said.
A man found dead on Canfield Mountain in Idaho (...)
AL-BAHA — Emir of Al-Baha Prince Hussam bin Saud inaugurated on Sunday the Al-Baha Summer Festival 2025. The festival, with the theme of "Al Baha...Heritage and Tourism" will witness more than 500 events that set to draw 2.5 million (...)
Emir of the Eastern Province Prince Saud bin Nayef, sponsored the graduation ceremony of 99 male and female students from the sixth, seventh, and eighth cohorts of the Saudi Academy of Culinary Arts (ZADK).
The event was held at the Dammam Chamber (...)
RIYADH — The Music Commission (MOC) has announced the launch of the Kingdom's first summer piano program of its kind, in collaboration with renowned pianist Maestro Lang Lang. The month-long program, set to begin at the Saudi Music Hub in Riyadh on (...)
Fifty years ago, Martina Navratilova left everything she knew in communist Czechoslovakia to start a new life in the US.
Then an 18-year-old high school pupil, she was one of the Cold War's most high-profile defectors — and she would go on to become (...)
RIYADH — The General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) on Tuesday released its official Hajj 2025 Statistical Bulletin, revealing that 420,070 individuals from both the public and private sectors, including security agencies, served the 1,673,230 (...)
MADINAH — Government authorities in Madinah have finalized their preparations to receive the influx of pilgrims visiting the Prophet's Mosque following the completion of their Hajj rituals. The coordinated efforts reflect Madinah's commitment to (...)
Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 inmates under a new agreement being negotiated between the two countries. The draft legislation has been sent to the parliament.
Meanwhile, the Estonian Office of the Chancellor (...)
MINA — On behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman received Eid Al-Adha well-wishers at the Royal Court of Mina Palace on Friday.
The reception was attended by Pakistani Prime (...)
ARAFAT — Marking the climax of the annual pilgrimage of Hajj, over 1.67 million pilgrims started their main ritual of wuqoof (standing) at Arafat on Thursday afternoon after ascending the vast plains of Arafat earlier the day.
The Saudi authorities (...)
ARAFAT — The General Authority for Statistics announced on Thursday that the total number of pilgrims who perform Hajj this year reached 1,673,230 pilgrims. These include 1,506,576 foreign pilgrims, who arrived from outside the Kingdom through (...)
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Pakistan and confessed to the murder of 17-year-old social media influencer Sana Yousaf, according to police.
Authorities say they believe Umar Hayat murdered Ms Yousaf at her home in Islamabad on Monday after (...)
MAKKAH — The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance received the second batch of the guests of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' program from Palestine.
They included 500 male and female pilgrims from Gaza, bringing their number so far (...)
