Saudi King Abdullah was hospitalised for a new back surgery in Riyadh, following two similar operations last year in the United States, the SPA news agency early on Monday.

The 87-year-old was operat

Two Saudi women and two Yemeni men were executed by the sword on Wednesday for separate murders, the interior ministry said, bringing the number of executions there to at least 62 this year.

Suad bi

Eight Bangladeshi migrants were beheaded in public in the Saudi Arabian capital after they were convicted of killing an Egyptian security guard four years ago, a media report said.

They were charged

Two Saudi men convicted of murder were executed by the sword on Friday in the northern city of Tabuk, the interior ministry said.

Karim bin Farhan al-Messeyden al-Atawi was found guilty of stabbing

Saudi activists say a court has sentenced a Saudi woman with 10 lashes for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving.

Activist Samar Badawi says Shaima Ghassaniya was found guilty on Tuesday of dri

Fourteen US women senators pressed Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in a letter on Tuesday to lift his country's unique ban on women drivers, calling it a big step forward on human rights.

"We strongly b

Indonesia criticised Saudi Arabia on Sunday for executing an Indonesian maid without notifying officials from her home country.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene expressed regret that Saudi Ar

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