Reports said that Saudi Arabia has invited Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year’s hajj, a process that has been halted over the stampede which killed thousands of pilgrims in September 2015. The Al-Hayat daily reported that Riyadh’s pilgrims minister Mohammed Bentin had opened discussions with ...
Although the Saudi government canceled a quarter of a trillion dollars’ worth of projects back home as part of a fiscal austerity program, workers hustled to finish bright blue landing pads for helicopters at the vacation compound and to erect a tent the size of a circus big-top where the ...
