Saudi Arabia made a rare comment on the nature of its security operations, confirming it was working with German investigators to track Islamist militants behind bomb and axe attacks in July.
Iran has executed a nuclear scientist convicted of handing over "top secret" information to the United States, a judicial spokesman said on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia took steps on Wednesday to help some 2,500 Indian workers stranded without money in the kingdom after a plunge in oil prices sparked construction layoffs.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen must do more to address "very serious concerns" about the killing of children, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, as he weighs whether to return the alliance to a blacklist of child rights violators.
Cross-border shelling from war-torn Yemen killed four people in Saudi Arabia on Monday, authorities in the kingdom said.
Seven Saudi troops and dozens of Houthi fighters were killed in heavy fighting on the border with Yemen, SPA reported, as the main combatants in Yemen's war prepared for a further week of peace talks in Kuwait.
India said on Sunday it would send a government minister to Saudi Arabia to try to bring back workers who have been laid off from their jobs, as the foreign minister said more than 10,000 Indians in the country were facing a "food crisis".
Three prisoners including two Saudi Arabian nationals were killed in a fight in a jail in India's remote northeastern state of Manipur, officials said.
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed two convicted murderers, the interior ministry said, raising to 107 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year.
Saudi authorities executed four citizens on Sunday convicted of killing six members of their tribe, the interior ministry said.
Saudi authorities on Friday executed a national convicted of murdering a compatriot, in the 101st execution of the year in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Arabia's top clerical body has revived a 2001 religious edict prohibiting Pokemon in response to public calls for guidance on the newly launched smartphone version of the game.
