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UPI - Wed Dec 2, 3:59 pm ET
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The condition of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'adua is improving as the official was moved from intensive care at a Saudi Arabian hospital, officials said.
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Florida Today - Thu Dec 3, 7:02 am ET
CAPE CANAVERAL — Five days after Iraq attacked Kuwait in 1990, John Kutz flew to Saudi Arabia to set up a tactical communications network that linked coalition forces through U.S. military satellites, a capability key to winning the first Persian Gulf War.
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Bluffton Today - Thu Dec 3, 7:26 am ET
SPICE WORLD The authors, Drs. Barry and Barre Wright, live on Callawassie Island and recently traveled to Saudi Arabia. The couple visited the archeological site of Mada’in Salih, once home to the Nabataeans about 2,000 years ago. The Wrights regularly contribute travel pieces to BT.
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UPI - Wed Dec 2, 11:14 am ET
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia's offensive against Yemeni rebels is driven by its fear of what it views as a far greater threat -- al-Qaida.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 12:11 pm ET
TANAJIB, Saudi Arabia----The Northern Area Oil Operations, Production Engineering and Well Services Department of Saudi Aramco have awarded the Artificial Lift Company, an innovative design, engineering and manufacturing solutions provider, the “Outstanding Innovative Idea Award,” during the 2009 “ESP Future Outlook” workshop.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 11:07 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest state-owned oil company, said the Dubai debt crisis won’t affect Saudi Arabia because the nation’s financial and property markets are “strong.”
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Daily Princetonian - Thu Dec 3, 12:06 am ET
Forty minutes outside Jeddah, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia, lies a new urban and educational center, supported by Princeton’s own president. President Tilghman sits on the board of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a secular, coeducational graduate-level research school that opened in September.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 6:52 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest state-owned oil company, said the Dubai debt crisis won’t affect Saudi Arabia as the nation’s financial and property markets are “strong.”
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 1:59 pm ET
Saudi Arabia appears to be taking the lead in Yemen's effort to crush Huthi rebels, despite Riyadh's insistence that it only aims to secure its porous border, security analysts say.
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Sun-Sentinel - Fri Nov 27, 5:34 am ET
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The chief physician for Nigeria's president says the leader is undergoing treatment for a heart condition at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
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The Huffington Post - Wed Dec 2, 10:00 am ET
It probably wouldn't come as any surprise that men in Saudi Arabia are permitted to take as many as four wives. But did you know...
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Hospitality Net - Fri Nov 27, 9:52 am ET
Hilton Worldwide today announced the signing of a management agreement with Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Almousa Trading Group for the first Doubletree by Hilton in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Al Khobar.
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The Washington Times - Wed Dec 2, 6:47 am ET
MECCA, Saudi Arabia One of the main rites at Islam's annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort of the patriarch Abraham, ran between two hills searching for water for her dying young son after they were abandoned in the desert here. Then God brought forth a spring that still runs to this day. Every year, pilgrims at hajj re ...
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UPI - Tue Dec 1, 5:14 pm ET
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia's escalating war against rebels in neighboring Yemen elevates what had been a local insurrection against Sanaa into a conflict with regional dimensions that could ignite bigger fires in a part of the world that is already staring into the abyss.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Sun Nov 29, 11:58 am ET
The rebels, called Houthis, are followers of the Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam, and the Saudis believe both that they have ties to Shiite-dominated Iran and have Al Qaeda members within their ranks.