PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Petrochemical giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) said it is halting plans to develop a $5.3 billion methanol complex in the energy-rich Caribbean nation of Trinidad ...

JEDDAH— The first law office to be run by a Saudi female opened in Jeddah on Wednesday. Bayan Zahran, the first Saudi woman to be issued a license to practice law in the Kingdom, said she had already ...

CARACAS — At one of Caracas’ biggest public hospitals, most bathrooms are closed. Patients fill jugs from a tiny tap on the ground floor that sometimes has a trickle of water. Operations are postponed ...

SHADI KHAN, Pakistan — A suicide bomber on Sunday killed a Pakistani provincial minister and at least nine other people at a building where the minister was holding a meeting, officials said. “Punjab ...

MANAMA — Authorities in Bahrain announced on Thursday the arrest of seven people suspected of carrying out or plotting attacks in the country. Five of those detained were believed to have formed a ...

RIYADH — The Ramadan floodlights cricket tournament, organized by Royal Academy of Cricket, began here last week. Seven teams taking part in the tournament are Fuchs, AXA Insurance, Sanad Aster, Royal ...

ARBIL — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, his office said on Wednesday. "The time has come and the ...

AL-DARB — Eight people were sentenced to 10 days in prison for joyriding near Rijal Alma’a bridge, Jazan Province. They were among 24 others who were joyriding and referred to Al-Darb Police. Jazan ...

TAIF — A Saudi woman has established, with the help of a number of female Shariah and law students, a judicial club to follow up issues facing women, including house workers, housewives or children at ...

Mina — Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, deputy premier and interior minister who is also the Head of the Supreme Haj Committee, praised the security forces and the personnel of various military sectors ...

RIYADH — Wasta (nepotism) has topped all other forms of corruption in the Kingdom, according to a study conducted by the Center of Studies and Research at the Prince Naif Arabic University for ...

Jeddah — Security Patrols in Jeddah arrested an Ethiopian who snatched $10,000 from a Saudi as he was leaving a money exchanger in downtown Jeddah. A team of undercover policemen chased the thief and ...