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Tax sugar to combathealth crisis: Experts

JEDDAH – Experts have urged governments to tax sugar and sweetened drinks and food to protect public health ...Read More

News Basket

Egypt on the boil; many dead in clashes

CAIRO – Police in Cairo set off salvos of tear gas and fired birdshot at protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot as fresh clashes on Egyptian streets killed three people Friday ...Read More

Freezingweathersees millionsseek updateson Internet

Saudi GazetteJEDDAH – With concerns about the freezing weather gripping the city and region, millions in the Kingdom have been turning to the Internet to keep up-to-date on sites providing information on climatic changes and forecasts ...Read More

Other News Today

Opinion

No need for a summit

Some people want to revive the idea of holding a new Arab summit and this time they want to hold it in Baghdad and not in any other Arab country. ...Read more

Israeli position on the Arab Spring

Editorial

Their Say

VOICES AROUND THE WORLD

Your Say

VOICES FROM OUR READERS

Business

Global traders nervous as Sudan oil spat drags

KHARTOUM – Global oil traders are nervously watching a dragging dispute over compensation between Sudan and breakaway South Sudan, whose impact reaches beyond major buyer China, analysts say. ...Read more

Gulf stocks rally on recovery prospects

Gulf eyes repos to raise capital

Gold declines after 5th winning week

Lockheed Martin strengthens tieswith Saudi Arabia

World

India telecom sector in turmoil after court ruling

NEW DELHI— When Norwegian telecom giant Telenor entered India’s overcrowded and fiercely competitive mobile market in 2009, the Scandinavian firm insisted it would be one of the survivors. ...Read more

UK minister quits over criminal charge

NATO mulls paying for Afghan forces after 2014

Romney leads big in Nevada

Malaria toll far higher than thought: Study

Nation