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• Saudi Culture
  Saudi Arabia’s historic Souq Okaz to kick off Thursday

  Saudi Arabia's Souq Okaz festival will start Thursday with different activities including presentations on old Arab poets, folklore theater and exhibitions.

• Paris Attack
  Saudi Arabia condemns ‘cowardly terrorist’ shooting in Paris

  Saudi Arabia condemned on Wednesday the shooting at a French newspaper in Paris that killed at least a dozen people, including 10 journalists, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

• Egypt
  New York Times Editorial: Egypt’s Appalling Crackdown on Gays

  Even if they were acquitted on the ludicrous charge of “debauchery,” the 26 Egyptian men on trial in the government’s latest crackdown on gays are likely to suffer a lifetime of public scorn.

• Media
  Saudi TV anchors begin donning hijab

  The Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has begun implementing a new dress code for its women TV anchors effective from Thursday, say sources.

• Islamic State
  Dozens of Saudis who join IS ‘die at Kurdish hands’

  Scores of Saudi citizens who joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State have been killed in fights with Kurdish forces, Al-Hayat daily reported.

• Christians in Iraq
  As Christmas approaches, Baghdad Christians lament empty pews

  Ringed by concrete blast walls and police checkpoints, St. George’s has seen its congregation shrink for the past decade. The instability and violence following the U.S. invasion in 2003 have driven many Christians out of the country. The nation’s Christian population has plummeted from more than a million to what community leaders estimate as less than 400,000 today.Now the conquests by extremists from the Islamic State, known for their cutthroat brutality and intolerance for other religions, have delivered another blow to Christians in their historic heartland.

• Saudi - Egypt Power Grid
  KSA – Egypt Power Grid costing US$ 1.5 billion to kick off in 2015

  The Saudi-Egyptian Electricity Grid project will start next year at a cost of at least US$ 1.5 billion, according to officials, said news reports in AMEinfo. Fourteen Arab states will join the power linkage system between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, says Saleh al-Awaji, an undersecretary in the kingdom’s Ministry of Water and Electricity. The project will be awarded mid-2015, and take three years to complete,” AFP quotes Awaji as saying.

• Awaser
  7,532: No. of wives, children left abroad by Saudis

  A charity cares for 7,532 Saudis abandoned by their fathers and husbands in 31 countries around the world, an official from the organization has revealed.

• Security
  Yemeni army kills five Al-Qaeda suspects near Saudi border

  Five suspected members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group were killed near the Yemeni-Saudi border on Saturday in a gun battle with Yemeni troops. The shootout began when one suspect opened fire after a Yemeni soldier attempted to search the bus the suspects were travelling on in the city of Harad, 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the Saudi border.

• Alwaleed Bin Talal
  Kingdom Holding, Qatar own Savoy Hotel equally

  Katara Hospitality Company owned by the government of Qatar acquired a 50 percent stake in the London landmark Fairmont Hotel the Savoy from Lloyds Banking Group, making the famous London hotel equally owned by Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) chaired by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the government of Qatar.

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