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Some foreigners often live in compounds or gated communities, [24] such as the Saudi Aramco compound at Dhahran Camp. However, many Westerners left the country in 2003 and 2004 following the terrorist attacks in Riyadh, Khobar and Yanbu. [30] A significant number of U.S. workers are English teachers. [citation needed]
Malayalam News [3] Dammam edition; Jeddah edition - launched in 1999; Riyadh edition; Madhyamam. Abha edition - 1 January 2011 [4] Dammam edition - 24 May 2008; Jeddah edition - 16 January 2006; Riyadh edition - 10 December 2007; Gulf Thejas. Dammam edition - March 2011; Jeddah edition - March 2011 [5] Riyadh edition - March 2011; Chandrika
The Central Department of Statistics & Information estimated the foreign population at the end of 2014 at 33% (10.1 million). [447] The CIA Factbook estimated that as of 2013 foreign nationals living in Saudi Arabia made up about 21% of the population. [8] Other sources report differing estimates. [448]
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While about one million foreign workers left voluntarily, reports estimate that between November 2013 and March 2014 around 370,000 migrant workers were forcibly deported from Saudi Arabia. [154] It was reported that crimes were committed by the Saudi police against these migrants, including extreme violence, torture, rape and killing. [154]
Facebook and WhatsApp are the popular social networking sites used in Saudi Arabia. 97% of the users who live in Saudi Arabia use Facebook as 81% of them use WhatsApp. The Facebook and the WhatsApp provide the platform through which the users can express their ideas and thoughts, and people of Saudi Arabia use these platforms to communicate and ...
However, amid conflicting reports, Syrian state television says that President Bashar al-Assad remains in Damascus. (The Telegraph via Yahoo! News) United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Otto Pedersen calls for an "orderly political transition" from the collapsing Syrian government to the Syrian opposition in order to end the conflict.
University/College Foundation City Website: Riyadh Region; King Saud University: 1957: Riyadh: www.ksu.edu.sa: Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University: 1970