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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa invites Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to join the bloc, with membership taking effect next year.
2023-08-24

Saudi security forces shoot dead two alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants while two others blew themselves up near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
2016-05-5

The parliament of the Netherlands passes a resolution calling on the government to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia, citing ongoing "violations of humanitarian law" in Yemen.
2016-03-15

A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills fifteen Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
2014-02-8

France reports its first death from the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus as Saudi Arabia advises of five new cases.
2013-05-28

Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years.
2013-05-1

A protester is shot dead by security forces in Qatif, eastern Saudi Arabia, amid a demonstration calling for the release of Shia prisoners and democratic reforms.
2012-02-10

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration claim to have disrupted an alleged terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador and bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington DC with possible links to Iran.
2011-10-11

Some Saudi Arabian women challenge a ban on female drivers, posting accounts and pictures of themselves driving automobiles.
2011-06-18

French media reports that former President of Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia with a stroke.
2011-02-17