“The cheetah was spotted moving toward the bank’s gate by the bank’s outer cameras at about 4:15 a.m. on Monday, prompting the security guards to raise alarm,” bank representative Salem Al-Onaizi told Arab News on Tuesday. Al-Onaizi said the panic-stricken guards saw the cheetah darting around the bank, which led them to close the entrance gate and inform the authorities about the animal freely roaming near Dabbab Street.
“The website was hacked a few weeks back, but has now been fully restored, and is safe and functional,” said Mohammed Al-Dukhainy, a spokesman for the ministry. The website was taken offline after being hacked, he added, while expressing concerns over such incidents. Hackers replaced the front page of the ministry’s website early November with a photo of a syringe-wielding young man, the cache of which can be accessed through Google.
“The website was hacked a few weeks back, but has now been fully restored, and is safe and functional,” said Mohammed Al-Dukhainy, a spokesman for the ministry. The website was taken offline after being hacked, he added, while expressing concerns over such incidents. Hackers replaced the front page of the ministry’s website early November with a photo of a syringe-wielding young man, the cache of which can be accessed through Google.
“We thank Saudi officials, owners and top executives of the Jeddah-based International Bunkering Company (IBCO), which owns and operates the tanker, for securing the release of the vessel and its Sri Lankan crew,” Sri Lankan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ahmed A. Jawad said on Wednesday. “We are very pleased that this ugly incident came to a happy ending.”
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.