How To Use Riyadh In A Sentence
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RIYADH/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite rebels are expected to hand over five captive Saudi soldiers in less than a week, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported on Sunday, following a 48-hour ultimatum set by Riyadh.
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The telegrams tell a different story of intimate and co-dependent relationships with unpleasant and repressive regimes in Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat.
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In the air in Riyadh and Jidda is the conviction that oil money has corrupted the ruling family beyond redemption, even as the general population has grown and gotten poorer; that the country's leaders have failed to protect fellow Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere; and that the House of Saud has let Islam be humiliated — that, in short, the country needs a radical "purification.
The Fall of the House of Saud
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RIYADH: On the sideline of the Global Competitiveness Forum taking place in Riyadh, Al-Olayan Financing Company which manages the Middle East operation of Arabia, a core partner nation in laying the foundation for a strong and modernized global economy, is on the verge of meeting a goal ... diseases.
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DAMMAM: International Indian schools in Dammam, Riyadh and Jubail have signed up for a new international student curriculum recommended by India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
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Vibrant communities of men who enjoy sex with other men can be found in cosmopolitan cities like Jeddah and Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia is spending billions on new super - cities to ease the growth of Jeddah and Riyadh.
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RIYADH: A number of expatriate women teachers in Riyadh, many of them from Western countries, are complaining the company that employed them has violated their employment contracts, not kept promises and has been burdening them with extra work.
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Prince Salman, who has been governor of Riyadh province since 1962, has played an increasingly prominent role in Saudi politics in recent years and is considered by observers as next in line to the throne after Prince Nayef, another half-brother of King Abdullah who was named crown prince soon after Prince Sultan's death.
Saudi King Names Prince Salman Defense Minister
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If you Google “Hani Hanjour” you will find a spiderwork of conspiracy theories speculating that he is still alive—a demonic Elvis who has recently been seen walking the streets of Riyadh.
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Navy might no longer be able to protect the oil tankers traveling from the Persian Gulf to fuel East Asia, a coalition of Tehran, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi form an unexpected new Gulf alliance and affirm that China's new fleet of swift aircraft carriers will henceforth patrol the Persian Gulf from a base on the Gulf of Oman.
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A video posted on YouTube appeared to show several hundred protesters gathering in Riyadh, outside the capital's al-Rajhi mosque, and activists said a demonstration also took place in the coastal city of Jiddah.
Protesters killed in Libya, Yemen as wave of Arab unrest continues
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These 30-second spots were so beguiling that it's easy to imagine that alcohol-free Riyadh will soon rival Disney World as a family-friendly vacation paradise.
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The demand, which Iran swiftly rejected, came during the U.N. February 15th, 2010 RIYADH - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Riyadh Monday, where she will likely seek to shore up Saudi support for tougher sanctions on Iran and for renewed Mideast peace talks.
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RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - Illegal stunts in cars, joyriding, bullying and political dissent -- video-sharing Web site YouTube has taken off in Saudi Arabia.
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In places like Riyadh and Moscow and Oslo and Mexico City and Vienna - where OPEC and other oil producers are meeting to set oil prices - the very notion of U.S. antitrust principles must be good for a horse laugh.
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RIYADH - A cargo plane belonging to the German carrier Lufthansa crashed on landing at Riyadh airport on Tuesday, Saudi television reported.
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The swearing-in took place in Riyadh.
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Last year, 12 Filipinos and a priest were arrested for "proselytism", after they held a secret mass in Riyadh.
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RIYADH: A pair of conjoined Palestinian twins who came to the Kingdom from the Gaza Strip to undergo separation surgery died in Riyadh on Saturday, said Saudi Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah.
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Students from Trinity College in Connecticut arrived today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a missionary trip to proselytize Arabic people and Muslim devotees to the ways of Irish-themed merrymaking.
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RIYADH - A Lufthansa official says one of the airline's cargo planes has crashed in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz mourns the death of his brother and his Crown Prince Sultan who died at dawn this morning Saturday outside the kingdom following an illness," the royal court said in a statement released a few hours later in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Dies
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The world champion, who ends his two-week show jumping tour of the Gulf tomorrow, will travel to Saudi capital Riyadh early next month to assess the royal family's equine facilities.
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Fahd, the eldest, was made second deputy prime minister and eventually became king, while Prince Nayef was made Interior Minister and Prince Salman became governor of Riyadh Province.
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Camel beauty contests have become so popular in Saudi Arabia, that a popular cleric had to issue a decree against them (reason to follow) "It's just like judging a beautiful girl," said Fowzan al-Madr, a camel breeder from the Kharj region southeast of Riyadh.
Camel Beauty Contests Are All The Rage In Saudi
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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia's stock market closed deeply in the red Saturday as policymakers from the Gulf Cooperation Council met in the capital Riyadh to discuss the threat posed to the region's economies by the global financial crisis.
Saudi Stocks Join Global Rout
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He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
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The stop reality in Riyadh was a late edition addition to an itinerary.
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Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
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So there's this Wahhabi sect, very hard liners, I say, and then you have the House of Saud, which is essentially a nomad tribe from the Riyadh vicinity or Najd.
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