A giant clock on a skyscraper in Islam’s holiest city Mecca began ticking on Wednesday at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, amid hopes by Saudi Arabia it will become the Muslim world’s official timekeeper.

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The Mecca Clock, which Riyadh says is the world’s largest, has four faces Continue Reading

Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal on Tuesday led the ceremonial washing of the Holy Kaaba in the presence of Chechen President Ramzan A. Kadyrov, Muslim diplomats and senior Saudi officials.

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Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who embraced Islam while serving a prison sentence in the 1990s, is on his first visit to the Kingdom to perform Umrah. He arrived in the holy city of Madinah on Friday to perform prayers at the Prophet’s Mosque.

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Saudi Arabia has signed a deal to acquire the Storm Shadow cruise missile from European weapons builder MBDA as part of a Tornado strike aircraft update package, said industry sources here.

The weapons package also includes the Brimstone anti-armor missile, they said.

Earlier plans to include

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One of my friends living in  Saudi Arabia has send me this picture he took using his mobile phone camera while traveling through the Tahlia Street street of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  He didn’t no what this bicycle is all about. What he told me is “Must be bicycle used and left behind by the religious Continue Reading