RIYADH/DAMMAM (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, may finally be getting serious about overcoming the technical and financial hurdles for tapping its other main resource: sunshine. Thousands of solar power panels have sprung up across Europe over the past few years, thanks to generous subsidies that make the technology an attractive alternative to conventional energy. Saudi ...
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Western and Gulf states pledged more than $4 billion in aid to Yemen at a Riyadh conference two days after more than 90 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, deepening concerns about al Qaeda's presence in the country. In a statement issued in London, seven aid agencies called for urgent food and other aid to head off a humanitarian disaster. They ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) The two leading members of Saudi Arabia's Olympic equestrian team will miss the London Games after they were banned for eight months on Wednesday.
