Author: Editorial Team
RIYADH — Students in public schools across Saudi Arabia will enjoy their first extra school holiday of the current academic year next Sunday, Oct. 25. This holiday was approved by the education departments across the Kingdom but is not included in the academic calendar issued by the Ministry of Education. These include six extended school holidays during the current academic year. The departments have designated Sunday, October 25, and Sunday, November 29 of 2026, and Thursday, January 7 and Sunday, April 11of 2027 as additional holidays within the academic calendar. Meanwhile, the education departments in the regions of Makkah, Madinah,…
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has ranked first globally in the activation of Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation (RPKI RoV), a technology that helps verify that an internet router is sending network traffic through the correct and authorized networks and reduces the risk of traffic being directed to untrusted websites or online services. The Kingdom achieved an activation rate of 99.8 percent, according to the latest measurements by APNIC, the regional internet registry administering IP addresses for the Asia Pacific. The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) stated that the Kingdom’s leading position in this indicator emphasizes the effectiveness…
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has pumped 12,600 liters of drinking water for displaced and affected people in the Old Al-Ba’ararah area of Al-Muzaffar District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen, benefiting 840 individuals from 120 families. The assistance, delivered as part of the emergency response project to provide drinking water for displaced people in Taiz, reflects Saudi Arabia’s efforts, through KSrelief, to improve living conditions, provide safe drinking water, strengthen community resilience, and support recovery in Yemen. Source: Riyadh Daily
OTTAWA — Four people were killed and dozens seriously injured after a fast-moving fire swept through a Canadian military base in Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Sunday, describing the incident as one of the country’s worst peacetime military tragedies. The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, approximately 200 kilometers southeast of Edmonton, spreading beyond a military training area as strong winds complicated firefighting operations. “Yesterday afternoon, a violent, fast-moving fire swept through Canadian Armed Forces base in Wainwright, Alberta,” Carney told reporters. “What followed was one of the worst tragedies for the forces on Canadian…
MANAMA — Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan attended the 168th session of the Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Manama on Sunday. The meeting was chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain and Chair of the current session of the GCC Ministerial Council Dr. Abdullatif Al Zayani. It was attended by the foreign ministers of the GCC member states and the GCC Secretary General Jasem Albudaiwi. In his specch, Al-Zayani stated that an attack on one Gulf state is an attack on all. He condemned the Houthi militias’ terrorist attacks against civilians. He…
MANAMA — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Manama on Sunday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the ninth Gulf Cooperation Council—Russia Joint Ministerial Meeting for Strategic Dialogue. Prince Faisal and Lavrov reviewed bilateral relations between the two friendly countries. The ministers discussed regional developments, notably the escalation in Yemen, ongoing threats to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, and efforts to maintain regional security and stability. Source: Saudi Gazette
Official Spokesperson for the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen Major General Turki Al-Malki stated that a UAV was intercepted and destroyed in the Riyadh Region. Source: Riyadh Daily
RIYADH — Minister of Justice Dr. Walid Al-Samaani affirmed that the rules governing the work of technical offices, recently approved by the Supreme Judicial Council, will enhance institutional maturity and quality of judicial work. The minister noted that the development of judicial work is founded on establishing quality standards, integrating roles, and leveraging data and indicators to improve performance, thereby enhancing the quality of judgments and ensuring the consistent application of judicial regulations and principles. Al-Samaani expressed his appreciation for the unlimited support of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and the support and follow-up of Crown Prince…
CAIRO — Egypt’s National Defense Council on Sunday pledged to provide Saudi Arabia with “all necessary and possible forms of support” to defend its security, sovereignty and stability amid escalating missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militia against the Kingdom. The decision came during a meeting chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the presidential palace in Cairo, where senior political, military and security officials reviewed dangerous regional developments, particularly the escalating Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. According to a statement issued by Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS), the council declared Egypt’s “full solidarity” with Saudi Arabia, emphasizing…
TOKYO — Japan is set to launch a landmark space mission Tuesday aimed at becoming the first country to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, and return them to Earth, according to state broadcaster NHK. The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is scheduled to lift off aboard an H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The mission aims to achieve the world’s first landing on Phobos to collect surface samples and transport them back to Earth for scientific analysis. JAXA has developed the spacecraft…