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  Temperature Trend on Makkah, Saudi Arabia

  The main objective of this study is to investigate temperature trend and distribution over 29 years period (1985 to 2013) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for all Muslims.

• Takaful
  Value of Saudi Arabia’s Islamic banking assets reaches $285bn

  The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry based on a recent study by Ernst and Young stated that global Islamic banking assets have registered cumulative annual growth rate of about 16 percent during 2008-2012, reflecting the radical shift from conventional financial system in favour of Islamic finance.

• Saudi Arabia | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

• How to welcome the holy month | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  God says in the Qur’an: “O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint. “(Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number (should be made up) from days later.

• Libya’s El Feel oil field reopens after protest ends | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Libya’s El Feel oil field reopens after protest ends

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  • Customer satisfaction in auto sector reaches 76%
• MERS
  Saudi Arabia sacks minister criticized over handling of MERS

  Saudi Arabia has sacked Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish who has been criticized by some international scientists over his handling of the deadly MERS virus that has infected 575 people in the kingdom and spread around the world.

• InSight: Some gender issues are pretty complicated | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  A discussion on gender issues can become complicated in a conservative society, especially if talk shifts to the seemingly growing subculture of girls and women behaving like men and having intimate relations.

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  UK terror convict used ‘sacrifice72’ e-mail id | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamist cleric facing U.S. terrorism charges, sits while a picture of shoe bomber Richard Reid is seen on a computer screen (L) and Saajid Badat is questioned via teleconference in Manhattan federal court in New York in this artist's sketch on Monday. (Reuters)

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  Iraqis brave blasts to vote for ‘change’ | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  An Iraqi woman casts her vote in Iraq's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew at a polling station in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday. (AFP)

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  Middle-East | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas gestures as he gives a speech during a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)'s Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday. (AFP)

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