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WHO commends measures against swine flu
Filed under NewsJul 3JEDDAH: The World Health Organization commended Saudi Arabia's elaborate preparations to prevent the spread of various infectious diseases, particularly swine flu, during the current Umrah season and upcoming Haj season.
A statement issued by WHO's regional office in the Middle East yesterday, described the Saudi preparations comprehensive, methodical and transparent. The statement also lauded the willingness of the Saudi Ministry of Health to pass accurate information to international organizations.
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Swine flu toll rises to 98
Filed under NewsJul 3RIYADH: The Ministry of Health announced yesterday nine more people tested positive for the swine flu virus, bringing the total number of people infected in the Kingdom to 98, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Eighty of the swine flu patients have recovered and are leading normal lives while all remaining cases are stable and expected to fully recover after treatment, the statement said.
Mild tremors jolt Al-Ais
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Jul 3
RIYADH: The Shoura Council has called on the Ministry of Culture and Information to provide it with the precise details of FM broadcasts from the precincts of the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh.
The call was made last Sunday when the council discussed a report submitted by the Culture and Information Committee.
The Shoura members wanted to know if the FM stations were being operated with licenses issued by the ministry. They also demanded an explanation from the Ministry of Culture and Information for delays in responding to applications for licenses to launch new publications or in making appropriate decisions on the matter.
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Jul 3
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will be a partner of a major European initiative called Green Public Diplomacy, which calls for intensified efforts to create green environment, control pollution on a global level, adopt environmental-friendly technology and encourage journalists to write more on environmental issues, according to Swedish Ambassador Jan Thesleff.
Thesleff said Sweden has teamed up with the King Saud University and Saudi Research and Publication Company to hold a major seminar on climate change and the environment later this year as part of the initiative.
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Coping with culture shock
Filed under NewsJul 3JEDDAH: A 26-year-old Japanese exchange student was assaulted in February inside a YMCA co-ed student-housing complex in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A man donning a mask turned out the lights of the laundry room and grabbed the woman from behind. She screamed and broke free. Other students came to the rescue and, according to local news reports, detained 19-year-old Khaled Al-Harbi. The student, who was in Canada on a Saudi government scholarship, was diagnosed with psychological problems and has been seeking counseling.
In another case in Bournemouth, UK, earlier this month, another Saudi student was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail. His identity has been registered for seven years on a local law-enforcement list of sexual harassers, according to the Daily Echo newspaper. In that case, the student, 23, was found guilty of public intoxication, stripping naked and chasing a 36-year-old woman through the streets. The woman punched the man and fled.
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Oil over 100 would hurt global economy
Filed under NewsJul 3KUWAIT: An oil price above $100 a barrel would hurt the global economy, Kuwaits oil minister said yesterday.
Optimism on global economic recovery drove a more than 40 percent rally in oil prices in the second quarter, the highest quarterly percentage gain since 1990.
Hopefully in the third quarter and fourth quarter, it wont surpass $100 as this will fuel recession again, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah told reporters in parliament.
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Jul 3
The IEA and OPEC are different organizations. Their briefs are different. They represent two worlds, two distinct interest groups and two schools of thought. They diverge rather than concur on major issues, but professionals run them; they may agree to differ yet both have no constraints in concurring, either. Despite all the odds, this industry, so very crucial to civilization, is maturing.
OPEC has been emphasizing for a long time now, that fundamentals demand and supply no more control the oil markets. Non-fundamentals speculation to be specific are now in full control and the world needs to rein them in.
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Hike in fuel prices mars Indian budget session
Filed under NewsJul 3NEW DELHI: The Indian governments monthlong budget session began on a stormy note yesterday with legislators belonging to opposition parties shouting slogans against the hike in petrol and diesel prices that came into effect at 12 a.m.
The agitated legislators have demanded the hike be withdrawn and called it parliamentary impropriety on it being announced on the eve of the budget session without sanction from the Cabinet.
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Sidelights Stressed out? Throw tomatoes
Filed under NewsJul 2TURBA: Talk about letting off some final-exam steam! A group of unruly students in this town near Taif decided to rent a van and purchase a great number of eggs and tomatoes, which they proceeded to toss at anyone and everyone they came across as they drove through the town. According to a report in yesterdays Al-Madinah newspaper, the egg-and-tomato wasters decided this was the best way to release the stress of sitting exams.
Phone bill shuts up Saudi man
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Two killed in road crash
Filed under NewsJul 2MADINAH: Two people were killed and four others injured yesterday when a GMC van carrying a group of women teachers rammed into a truck, a Civil Defense source said.
He said the accident occurred around 9 a.m. and the fatalities were a woman teacher and the vans driver.
Civil Defense officers rushed to the accident site and rescued the women teachers trapped inside the mangled vehicle, the spokesman said.
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