Saudi Arabia

The Saudi government has launched an investigation into the deadliest disaster to strike the annual haj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 25 years. Audio

More than 700 people have been killed, and 800 hundred injured, in an horrific stampede at Mina near the Islamic holy city of Mecca. Kamahl Santa-maria from Al Jazeera is based in the Middle East. Audio

The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins on September 22, and for many Muslims, the journey to Mecca is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. More than a million faithful, have already flocked to Saudi Arabia in… Audio

Matthieu Aikins reports from the Middle East and South Asia for a number of magazines and his investigative work exposing war crimes in Afghanistan won him the George Polk Award and the Medill Medal… Audio

The Saudi Finance Minister says the country is cutting spending and delaying some state projects due to the decline in oil prices. Audio

Labour says Foreign Minister Murray McCully appears to have broken the law around public spending with a $4 million payment to the businesman at the centre of the Saudi sheep farm affair. Audio

The Green Party says it doesn't buy the government's official explanation of the Saudi sheep deal. Audio

We spoke to the Prime Minister John Key earlier and he says proper processes were followed in the saudi deal. Audio

Animal advocates and opposition MPs say they're appalled the Government pushed the country's animal welfare laws to the very limit in order to fly 900 heavily pregnant sheep to Saudi Arabia. Audio

The Green Party says the Government told a Saudi businessman to sue New Zealand over its ban on live sheep exports. Audio

The Government is facing fresh accusations that it has endangered New Zealand agriculture and the country's corruption-free reputation with its controversial Saudi farm deal. Audio

Trade and Enterprise is not saying what killed hundreds of lambs in the Saudi desert even though it knows what happened. Audio

Labour says blaming sand storms for the deaths of lambs on the government backed Saudi farm is another ludicrous attempt to disguise a bribe for a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman. Audio

Officials have confimed high numbers of New Zealand-bred lambs died shortly after being being born on the Government's controversial demonstration farm in the Saudi Arabian desert. Audio

Officials have confimed high numbers of New Zealand-bred lambs died shortly after being being born on the Government's controversial demonstration farm in the Saudi Arabian desert. Audio

The Labour MP and former Cabinet Minister, David Parker, has released Cabinet papers from 2007, in the latest twist in the controversy over sheep exports to Saudi Arabia. Audio

The Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has conceded that the Saudi businessman, Hamood Al Ali Al-Khalaf, was not impressed with the Government when it didn't lift the ban on live sheep exports in… Audio

Expert in kleptocracy, anti-corruption, and civil-military relations with ten years' experience in Afghanistan; currently a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia… Audio

Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington DC, discussing the international significance of the repositioning of power in Saudi Arabia. Audio