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Syrian refugees invent app for Germany’s bureaucracy maze
Interminable queues, impenetrable paperwork, unpronounceable German words -- the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe's top economy can be daunting but now there's an app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian refugees.
It's...
Saudi Princess Reema vows to involve women in sport
A U.S.-raised Saudi Arabian princess freshly appointed to increase female participation in sport plans to help licence gyms and modify outdoor spaces for women in the Gulf Kingdom, she said in an interview on...
49,000 children dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram
The U.N. children's agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria's Islamic extremist uprising if they don't get treatment.
UNICEF is calling for charities and...
Saudi stops 31 African refugees in Red Sea
Saudi maritime patrols have intercepted 31 illegal migrants, mostly from Sudan, trying to reach the kingdom by sea, official media said on Tuesday, the latest case in recent weeks.
The Saudi Press Agency has reported...
Muslims around the world celebrate Eid
Muslims around the world celebrated the Eid-al-Fitr religious holiday on Wednesday, marking the end of Islam's holy month of Ramadan.
Like the start of Ramadan, during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight...
Mother killed in Saudi Arabia by twin sons fleeing to Syria, sparks debate
Driven by radical beliefs, twin brothers allegedly killed their mother in Saudi Arabia after she tried to stop them from joining Islamic State in Syria in a case that outraged Saudi Arabians worried about...
Saudi prince seeks to assure Saudis after triple bombings
Saudi Arabia's crown prince and anti-terror tsar sought on Tuesday to reassure Saudis of the country's security after suicide attacks targeting the holy city of Medina, the U.S. consulate in Jeddah and Shi'ites in...
UAE protests US arrest, calls citizens to avoid national dress abroad
The United Arab Emirates summoned on Sunday a senior US diplomat to protest the "abusive treatment" of a UAE citizen as it advised citizens to avoid wearing national attire abroad.
The foreign ministry expressed "discontent"...
Bomber killed, 2 police wounded in blast outside U.S. consulate in Jeddah
A suicide bomber was killed and two people were wounded in a blast near the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia's second city of Jeddah early on Monday, state TV said, the first bombing in...
WHO says misdiagnosis in Saudi caused MERS outbreak
The wrong diagnosis of a woman suffering from the MERS coronavirus led to more than 49 other patients and medical staff being exposed to the disease in a Saudi hospital, the World Health Organization...
