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CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Tuesday cleared three ministers from former President Hosni Mubarak’s administration of graft, the first ruling to exonerate former ministers since Egypt’s popular uprising.

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JEDDAH: The Kingdom’s bilateral dialogue with Iran will continue, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said at a joint press conference with his British counterpart William Hague in Jeddah on Tuesday.

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RIYADH: On day five of the trial against the first group of 85 terror suspects, the prosecution provided a glimpse of the methods allegedly used by the accused to blow up three residential compounds in Riyadh in 2003.

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DUBAI: Oversupply continues to hurt the UAE's property market with 18,000 new homes expected to hit Dubai's market by year end and rents in Abu Dhabi dropping 9 percent in the second quarter, reports showed.

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MAKKAH: The money exchange operators in Makkah have urged the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to reconsider its new regulations to impose a new ceiling of minimum SR2 million capital for each firm. They called on the central bank to exempt them from the purview of the new condition, which is difficult to meet for many of the firms which have been operating for decades.

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RIYADH: The special court trying the Saudi militants accused of terror attacks in Riyadh in 2003 ordered Sunday all members of the media to leave the courtroom in compliance with the wish of a defendant, who also charged that the trial was a sham.

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MANILA, Philippines The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will stop hiring domestic workers from the Philippines, according to the country's Ministry of Labor.

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Image 1 of 8: Juhayman Al Otaibi was a tribal Wahhabi--a form of Salafism in Arabia--who led the siege of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in 1979.