Saudi Arabia
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Custom team recovers approx 32 kgs of gold worth over Rs 15 crores from Jaipur International airport
News | July 08, 2020 11:40 IST14 Indian national passengers coming from UAE and Saudi Arabia were intercepted by the custom team on July 07.
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Saudi Arabia announces Haj restrictions
World | July 06, 2020 16:27 ISTSaudi Arabia on Monday announced a series of measures to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the annual Haj pilgrimage scheduled to take place later this month.
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Saudi Arabia: Hajj will see at most ‘thousands’ due to coronavirus
World | June 23, 2020 20:28 ISTA Saudi official said Tuesday that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world, will only see at the most a few thousand pilgrims next month due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
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39 mosques shut again in Saudi Arabia
World | June 07, 2020 13:38 ISTSaudi authorities have closed down 39 mosques in the Kingdom after coronavirus infections were suspected among worshippers or those in charge of the sites, state-media reported.
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Nationwide lockdown eased in Saudi Arabia
World | May 28, 2020 15:33 ISTSaudi Arabia on Thursday started easing a five-day nationwide lockdown imposed during the festival of Eid amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Saudi Arabia to re-open all mosques for Friday prayers, except those in Mecca
World | May 26, 2020 22:27 ISTMosques in Saudi Arabia will re-open for Friday prayers this week as the country prepares to relax the lockdown measures in place to check the spread of COVID-19
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'We forgive those who killed our father', slain journalist's sons offer pardon to convicts
World | May 22, 2020 13:12 ISTThe family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced Friday they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents who'd been sentenced to death for an operation that cast a cloud of suspicion over the kingdom's crown prince.
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Saudi Arabia reports first COVID-19 death
World | March 25, 2020 14:22 ISTSaudi Arabia on Tuesday reported the first death in the country from coronavirus and a total of 205 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 767.
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Prayers outside Makkah's Grand Mosque, Prophet's Mosque suspended amid coronavirus threat
World | March 20, 2020 17:47 ISTSaudi Arabia on Thursday suspended their five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer outside the walls of the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madinah in a bid to curd the spreading of the novel coronavirus.
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Arrest of royals in Saudi Arabia: What we know so far
World | March 09, 2020 16:29 ISTTwo people close to the royal family said on Saturday that the two princes were under arrest for not supporting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia suspends travel to 9 countries, including UAE
World | March 09, 2020 11:08 ISTSaudi Arabia on Monday suspended travel to and from nine countries including the UAE .Travel is also suspended to and from Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Italy, South Korea and Syria.
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King Salman is not dead, Saudi releases photos after rumours of death
World | March 09, 2020 11:53 ISTSaudi Arabia has released photos of King Salman carrying out his royal duties after theories emerged on his death and a possible coup attempt. The speculation began after the arrest of two senior princes.
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Oil war triggered by Saudi price cuts to benefit India immensely
Business | March 08, 2020 20:52 ISTLarge energy consumers, including India and China, may head for an oil bonanza with the world's largest oil producer Saudi Arabia looking to ramp up production to well above 10 million barrels from next month
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King of Saudi Arabia most probably dead or on deathbed: Twitter activist
World | March 08, 2020 19:15 ISTTwitter activist and Saudi whisleblower Mujtahid has claimed that King Salman of Saudi Arabia is most probably dead or is currently on his deathbed, an Iranian media report said.
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Saudi Arabia confirms first coronavirus case
World | March 02, 2020 23:25 ISTFirst positive case of coronavirus has been reported from Saudi Arabia. As per state media, the infected person had arrived from Iran via Bahrain. Iran has reported a significant rise in the cases of coronavirus. Earlier on Monday, a close aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei died of coronavirus.
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Saudi Arabia bars foreign pilgrims from Mecca over Coronavirus fears
World | February 27, 2020 23:35 ISTSaudi Arabia on Thursday banned foreign pilgrims from entering the kingdom to visit Islam's holiest sites over the new coronavirus, potentially disrupting the plans of millions of faithful ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and as the annual hajj pilgrimage looms.
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Yediyurappa received threat calls from Saudi Arabia, Dubai following police firing in Mangaluru
India | February 19, 2020 22:46 ISTKarnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and he himself were among several politicians who received threat calls from Saudi Arabia and Dubai in the aftermath of two deaths in police firing during violent protests against the CAA and NRC in Mangaluru in December 2019, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Wednesday
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Saudi reluctant to accept Pakistan's request for immediate OIC meeting on Kashmir: report
World | February 06, 2020 15:26 ISTIn December, there were plans to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of the OIC on Kashmir by Saudi Arabia, in an apparent move by the kingdom to please Pakistan which skipped a recent summit of Muslim nations in Malaysia seen by Riyadh as an attempt to create a new bloc to replace the 57-member grouping led by it.
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Coronavirus: Confusion clears over 'infected' Indian nurse in Saudi Arabia
India | January 23, 2020 23:49 ISTConfusion prevailed on Thursday as to an 'infected' Indian nurse in a Saudi Arabian hospital. Minister of State (External Affairs) V Muraleedharan posted a tweet from his official Twitter handle saying that one of "About 100" nurses tested for Wuhan coronavirus was found to be infected. However, Indian Consulate General in Jeddah quoted chairman of Saudi Arabia's Scientific Regional Infection Control Committee to convey that the nurse did not suffer from 2019-NCoV (Wuhan) virus.
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US sends home nearly two dozen Saudi cadets after shooting
World | January 14, 2020 6:59 ISTThe U.S. sent home 21 Saudi military students following an investigation into a deadly shooting last month by one of their fellow trainees at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, an attack that Attorney General William Barr said was an act of terrorism driven by some of the same motivations of the Sept. 11 plot.
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