Saudi Arabia's King Salman openes an Arab League summit by criticising US President Donald Trump's decision to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Saudi Arabia's attorney-general says that 208 people have been called in for questioning in a sweeping anti-corruption investigation, and seven of them have been released without charge.

A Bangladesh national is shot dead by miscreants in Saudi Arabia, Bangladeshi embassy in Riyadh says.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her entourage departs from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Saudi Arabia on a five-day visit to the kingdom at the invitation of the Saudi King.

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Sheikh Abdullah al-Sheikh says in a television program that playing chess is forbidden in Islam.

The Arab Spring had deeply destabilised the Middle East. A new dimension was added to the existing instability on January 4, 2016, when the (Sunni) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) severed diplomatic ties with (Shia) Iran.