New apps help Palestinians navigate Israeli checkpoints
A pair of new mobile apps hopes to help Palestinians navigate their way around snarled traffic at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, offering...
UN study finds more women face genital mutilation than earlier estimated
More than 200 million girls and women globally have suffered genital mutilation, far higher than previously estimated, which highlighted the need to accelerate efforts...
“The Unknown Soldier” Iraqi architect died of COVID-19
The 93-year-old architect and photographer, Rifat Chadirji, also known as the father of modern Iraqi architecture, died late Friday in the United Kingdom of...
Donations for disabled children urged
More donations are needed to assist children with disabilities in the Kingdom because treatment costs for one child is about SR100,000 a year, said...
U.S. Air Force apologizes for Yanny/Laurel tweet about Afghan war
The U.S. Air Force apologized on Thursday and withdrew a tweet that sought to find humor in killing Taliban militants in Afghanistan by invoking...
Gulf states adopt common PR strategy 'to rectify image'
The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are to put in place a common media strategy to improve their image around the...
Saudi first Arab country to have over 10,000 stem cell donors
Saudi Arabia emerged as the first country in the Arab world to record more than 10,000 stem cell donors, a unique medical feat that...
Murderer who killed policeman executed in Mecca
Ayed al-Jahdali was convicted of shooting dead a policeman who was trying to arrest him for drug trafficking, the ministry said in a statement...
Camels reason for Mers-CoV spreading in the kingdom, WHO claims
The World Health Organization (WHO) has attributed the lack of control over the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronovirus (Mers-CoV) to camels, as compared to...
Merkel is healthy but working from home
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who on Sunday went into quarantine after coming into contact with a Coronavirus-infected doctor, is healthy but working from home, German...
