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  • Skipping school in Saudi Arabia? Parents could face jail

    Skipping school in Saudi Arabia? Parents could face jail

    Guardians in Saudi Arabia may before long face prison time in the event that their youngsters reliably play hooky, as per another order from the Service of Training. The move comes as a component of the Saudi government’s endeavors to battle delinquency and guarantee that youngsters get legitimate schooling.

    Saudi Arabia has been endeavoring to further develop its school system lately, perceiving that a knowledgeable populace is indispensable for the country’s future turn of events and worldwide intensity. Notwithstanding, delinquency stays a persevering issue, for certain understudies as often as possible missing from school.

    Under the new guidelines, guardians will be considered legitimately liable for their kids’ participation and reliability at school. On the off chance that an understudy collects countless unexpected no-shows, guardians could confront fines and even detainment. The seriousness of the punishments will rely upon the quantity of days a youngster is missing and the guardians’ past consistence with participation rules.

    Schooling Pastor, Dr. Ahmed Al-Issa, focused on the significance of these actions in a new press explanation. He expressed, “Training is the foundation of our general public’s advancement, and it is the obligation of the two guardians and the public authority to guarantee that youngsters go to class consistently. By considering guardians responsible, we desire to diminish delinquency rates and work on instructive results for our childhood.”

    The new mandate has earned blended responses from guardians and teachers in Saudi Arabia. While some acclaim the public authority’s endeavors to further develop school participation and instructive guidelines, others are worried about the likely ramifications for guardians.

    Mr. Abdullah Al-Mansoori, a parent of two school-going kids, communicated his reservations, saying, “I figure out the significance of training, yet some of the time youngsters might have legitimate explanations behind missing school, like sickness. I trust the public authority will think about such circumstances and not force cruel punishments on guardians without cause.”

    To address these worries, the Service of Schooling has explained that guardians will have the chance to give genuine motivations to their kids’ unlucky deficiencies. Pardoned nonappearances because of ailment or other legitimate reasons won’t prompt punishments for guardians.

    The Saudi Middle Eastern government has likewise sent off a public mindfulness mission to instruct guardians about the new guidelines and the significance of customary school participation. This mission incorporates educational materials appropriated in schools and through different media channels.

    Saudi Arabia’s endeavors to further develop its school system and diminish delinquency are essential for a more extensive methodology to put resources into human resources and set up the country’s labor force for the difficulties representing things to come. The public authority means to make an information based economy and increment the country’s worldwide seriousness by guaranteeing that all kids get excellent training.

    As the new guidelines produce results, guardians across the realm will be intently checking their youngsters’ participation at school, and teachers will be attempting to guarantee that understudies are available and participated in the growing experience. The progress of these actions will probably rely on how actually they are carried out and implemented, as well as how well they balance the requirement for responsibility with the acknowledgment of genuine purposes behind nonappearances.

  • Saudi Arabia: Six more airports to receive foreign Haj pilgrims

    Saudi Arabia: Six more airports to receive foreign Haj pilgrims

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    Jeddah: Saudi Arabia has been gearing up to receive foreign Haj pilgrims this year at different airports in the Kingdom.

    Apart from Jeddah and Madinah, now Riyadh, Dammam, Taif and Yanbu airports will also receive Haj pilgrims who are flying through Saudia.

    Saudia, the national flag carrier, has announced that it will be transporting pilgrims from more than 100 scheduled destinations and 14 seasonal destinations around the globe into the Kingdom.

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    Amer Al-Khushail, CEO of Hajj and Umrah of Saudia Airlines also revealed that Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah will receive the first flights arriving in the Kingdom on May 21.

    The Saudia will provide a smooth travel experience for pilgrims as it is pressing 176 aircraft to transport pilgrims and allocating more than 1.2 million seats.

    He said that 8000 cabin crew can speak 42 different languages. Added that Saudia also offers a unique collection of educational e-books on how to perform Hajj and Umrah in more than 14 languages.

    Saudia has updated its in-flight Islamic content, with more than 134 hours of various religious programs and 590 hours of Qur’an recitations, in addition to many other Islamic programs available in several languages.

    Saudia Group has also expanded its Hajj season plan activities to include sharing awareness messages to pilgrims in their languages through Hajj missions, Hajj organizations present in Makkah and Madinah, and across Hajj residences. In these messages, the company clarifies all matters related to the pilgrims’ journeys, including details related to baggage limits and requirements in order to facilitate an easy pilgrimage, media reports quoted him as saying.

    The senior official of Saudia also said that flyadeal would be involved for the first time in operations to transport pilgrims.

    Al Khushail highlighted that Saudia Group aims to achieve operational efficiency while fully complying with safety standards, providing pilgrims with many further services including arranging the dispatch of zamzam water bottles to various destinations and providing additional flights for pilgrims wishing to travel to Madinah by air.

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  • Sudan army sends envoys to Saudi Arabia for truce talks

    Sudan army sends envoys to Saudi Arabia for truce talks

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    Khartoum: The Sudanese Army said that it has sent negotiators to the Saudi port city of Jeddah to discuss the humanitarian truce as part of a Saudi-American initiative to end the conflict in the African country.

    As part of the Saudi-American initiative, a delegation of the Sudanese Armed Forces left for Jeddah to discuss the details relating to the truce, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement issued on Friday by the Sudanese army.

    “This tends to secure and prepare the suitable circumstances to deal with the humanitarian aspects for our citizens under the current conditions,” the statement added.

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    Earlier this week, both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to extend the truce for seven days.

    The RSF has not officially confirmed that it had sent negotiators to Jeddah, though local media reports said so.

    Sudan has been witnessing deadly armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the RSF in the capital city of Khartoum and other areas since April 15, with the two sides accusing each other of initiating the conflict.

    According to UN statistics, thousands of Sudanese citizens have been displaced or forced to seek refuge in safe areas in Sudan and neighboring countries, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Chad.

    So far, the deadly clashes have left 550 people dead and 4,926 others wounded, according to the Sudanese health ministry.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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  • Saudi Arabia launches e-visas in seven countries including India

    Saudi Arabia launches e-visas in seven countries including India

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    Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has launched new initiative to issue electronic visas, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

    Starting in seven countries, e-Visas will replace visa stickers on passports and make it possible to retrieve visitor data using a QR code.

    The initiative is part of the process to automate and improve the quality of consular services.

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    The new initiative went into effect in seven countries on May 1, 2023.

    As the first phase, the new procedure was activated at the Kingdom’s diplomatic missions in

    The country is seeking to diversify its oil-dependent economy and attract more foreign visitors.

    Tourism Minister Ahmed Al-Khatib said in March 2023 that the number of visitors to Saudi Arabia reached 2.4 million in January and rose to 2.5 million in February.

    The Kingdom aims to receive 25 million foreign tourists this year.

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  • Saudi Arabia extends deadline for Makkah Haj housing

    Saudi Arabia extends deadline for Makkah Haj housing

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    Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Haj Pilgrims Housing Committee in Makkah has extended the deadline for issuing housing permits until May 20.

    The committee said that the relevant requests will continue until the end of the current month of Shawwal, which is expected to end on May 20.

    The committee urged real estate owners interested in renting their homes for this purpose to review approved engineering offices to finalize the permits, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

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    Applications are submitted by engineering offices accredited by Makkah Municipality and Civil Defence, who will examine those buildings to ensure they meet the required safety and health conditions.

    As part of this process, the committee asked the owners who are interested in renting out their houses to accommodate pilgrims to comply with all safety requirements and apply for permits as soon as possible.

    In December 2022, the committee began receiving applications for permits for buildings to be approved to house pilgrims for the upcoming Haj season and has since extended the deadline several times.

    Haj pilgrimage to Makkah is a mandatory religious duty that must be performed by those Muslims who are physically and financially able to perform it at least once in a lifetime.

    Saudi Arabia has announced that the minimum age for this year’s Haj is 12-year-old as the number of pilgrims returns to pre-pandemic levels.

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  • Saudi Arabia grants free visas to evacuated nationals from Sudan

    Saudi Arabia grants free visas to evacuated nationals from Sudan

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    Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has announced that it will grant free visas to all Sudanese nationals who have been evacuated from Sudan, local media reported.

    In an interview with Al-Ekhbariya TV, Lt. Gen. Sulaiman Al Yahya, director general of Passports (Jawazat), confirmed this development and said that this initiative comes under the directives of the wise leadership of Saudi Arabia.

    Accordingly, those who have been evacuated from Sudan can enter the Kingdom as any member of the Saudi society and as any person visiting the Kingdom, and move freely. 

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    However, they must have scheduled departure plans.

    The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported that 5013 people from 100 countries have been evacuated from Sudan since military operations began between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces.

    The Saudi government is making efforts to evacuate its citizens and nationals of friendly countries from Sudan to the Kingdom.

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  • Iranian diplomatic missions resume operations in Saudi Arabia

    Iranian diplomatic missions resume operations in Saudi Arabia

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    Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said that three Iranian diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia have resumed operations.

    Nasser Kanaani made the remarks on Monday at a weekly press conference when asked to comment on the progress by Iran and Saudi Arabia to reopen their diplomatic missions following an agreement that was reached between the two countries in March on the normalisation of their bilateral ties, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a report by Mehr news agency.

    The three diplomatic missions are Iran’s embassy in Riyadh, a consulate general in Jeddah and a representative office to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, Kanaani was quoted as saying.

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    Kanaani stressed that the two countries are in the early stages of resuming their bilateral relations and reopening their embassies, adding that Iran’s technical team is currently based in Saudi Arabia and laying the groundwork.

    He said he is optimistic that the two countries’ embassies will start their full operations as planned in accordance with their agreement.

    The two countries had carried out good coordination in a humanitarian issue in their first steps toward the resumption of the bilateral diplomatic activities, said Kanaani, adding that the evacuation of 65 Iranian nationals from Sudan and their transfer to Iran via the Saudi port city of Jeddah was a positive development.

    Regarding an upcoming visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia, Kanaani said Tehran has received an official invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and has responded to it officially.

    At a press conference held in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Friday, Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian confirmed that he and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud have also invited each other for official visits.

    Saudi Arabia and Iran reached a deal in March to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies and missions in the two countries within two months.

    On April 6, the two countries announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with immediate effect.

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  • Saudi Arabia Relaxes Rules For Umrah Pilgrimage

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    SRINAGAR: In response to an inquiry on the expiration of Umrah visas after the Haj season, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah clarified that the 90-day visa period starts from the pilgrim’s entry into Saudi Arabia and must be adhered to.

    The Ministry also stated that the length of stay for those with Umrah visas is 90 days.

    Reservations for performing Umrah at the Grand Mosque in Makkah during the current Islamic month of Shawwal can be made through the Nusuk application, which also provides visas, permits, and packages for visiting holy places in Saudi Arabia.

    Electronic permits for Umrah remain mandatory, and the Kingdom has recently unveiled several facilities for Muslims to perform Umrah.

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  • Sau­di Ara­bia, Iran to re­open em­bassies ‘with­in days’

    Sau­di Ara­bia, Iran to re­open em­bassies ‘with­in days’

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    Beirut: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Saudi Arabia and Iran will reopen their embassies in both countries within days.

    This comes after the two countries agreed to restore relations in March after a series of events in 2016 led to the severing of diplomatic relations.

    Amir-Abdollahian made the statement during a press conference in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

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    Abdollahian added that his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, would accept his invitation to visit Tehran pointing out that he had received a similar invitation to visit the Kingdom.

    He indicated that the date of the two visits would be agreed upon “through diplomatic channels.” 

    Earlier this April, the Saudi newspaper “Okaz” revealed the Iranian embassy in Riyadh opened its doors for the first time in seven years.

    On April 6 in Beijing, the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia signed a joint statement to begin arrangements to reopen embassies and consulates, expand bilateral relations and cooperation, and resume flights.

    These steps come after Saudi Arabia and Iran announced on March 10 the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and the reopening of their embassies, following Chinese mediation, after seven years of tensions.

    The relationship began to deteriorate in 2015 after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intervened in the Yemen war after the Iran-aligned Houthi group overthrew the Riyadh-backed government and took control of the capital, Sanaa.

    Tensions between the two countries have led to conflicts across the region, including the Syrian Civil War.

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  • India planning power grid with Saudi Arabia, UAE via undersea cable

    India planning power grid with Saudi Arabia, UAE via undersea cable

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    India is planning to link its power grid through undersea cables to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), local media reported.

    India’s Ministry of Energy has circulated ministerial notes for inter-ministerial consultation to expand access to reliable energy and improve energy security in the country.

    The bilateral agreements will be signed with Saudi Arabia and the UAE for the mega projects, once the Cabinet approves the decision, Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh told Mint.

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    “The India-UAE agreement is in its final stages,” said the minister.

    In January 2023, India and the UAE announced plans to conduct a feasibility study for connecting their power grids via undersea cables as part of the One Sun, One World, One Grid initiative.

    On the other hand, the interconnection with Saudi Arabia is currently being reviewed, Singh stated.

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