RIYADH: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose achievements have set an example of judicious leadership in the Islamic world, on Monday won the 2010 King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Service to Islam. Two internationally acclaimed mathematicians — professor Enrico Bombieri from the US and professor Terence Chi-Shen Tao from Australia — were declared co-winners of the prize in science (mathematics).
“The tanker, with a dead weight of 5,136 tons, and its crew — one Greek and 13 Sri Lankans — were all safe,” Paddy O’Kennedy, a spokesman of the European Union Naval Force, said by telephone on Thursday. Arab News contacted some officials of the Jeddah-based International Bunkering Company (IBCO), which owns the tanker, but they declined to comment. IBCO has been working with their insurer, Saudi IACI Cooperative Insurance Company (SALAMA), to secure an early release of the bunker barge.
The new legislation, which will replace the present 34-year-old election laws, will offer a broad regulatory framework for municipal elections and explain the extent of power, jurisdiction, rights and duties of councilors.
Riyadh: Several institutions from Saudi Arabia, Austria, other Arab countries and Europe have teamed together to organize a high-profile “Arab-European Young Leaders Forum.” Several institutions from Saudi Arabia, Austria, other Arab countries and Europe have teamed together to organize a high-profile “Arab-European Young Leaders Forum.”
Didi Wahyudi , chief of the citizen service and protection task force at the Indonesian Consulate in Jeddah , said on Wednesday police in Madinah have yet to react to a complaint against a Saudi employer accused of toturing 23 year old Indonesian maid Sumiati binti Salan Mustapa.
RIYADH: A team of 30 doctors and para medical staff toiled for 10 hours yesterday to separate a pair of Iraqi conjoined twins who were joined at the lower thorax. “The twins, who also shared a liver, were successfully separated this evening, and they are responding well to the post-operation treatment,” Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, who led the team at the King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), said yesterday.
RIYADH: Finance ministers and governors of central banks from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) pledged here yesterday to unify their position against the global financial crisis that is hampering the smooth operation of banks and stock markets in the region. The ministerial-level meeting called for coordinated efforts to shore up confidence of Gulf institutions and individuals. “The finance ministers discussed the mechanisms of coordination to protect the economies of the Gulf states,” said GCC Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Al-Attiyah. The emergency meeting’s main agenda was to discuss coordination of GCC states’ responses to a global downturn that threatens to stop the region’s six-year economic boom.
They include a GCC infection control conference and an infection control course designed and conducted by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). The five-day events, to be opened in Riyadh on Oct. 17, will be attended by a panel of international experts as well as delegates from the Kingdom’s medical world.
The Luxembourg-based EU’s General Court struck down an order freezing the funds of Al-Qadi, suspected of links with Al-Qaeda, saying that his rights had been violated.
RIYADH: Facing the high cost of fuel, low-fare Saudi carrier Sama is considering the prospects of shutting down all of its domestic flights until situation in the aviation market of the Kingdom improves and a reasonable return can be ensured.