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Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. The current form of the metropolis emerged as an offshoot of the eponymous walled town following the dismantling of its defensive fortifications in the 1950s, after which the city underwent several phases of expansion and urbanization.
Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda, is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region. Jeddah is the commercial center of the country. It is not known when Jeddah was founded, but Jeddah's prominence grew in 647 when the Caliph Uthman made it a travel hub serving Muslim travelers going to the holy city of Mecca for Islamic pilgrimage. Since those times, Jeddah has served as the gateway for millions of pilgrims who have arrived in Saudi Arabia, traditionally by sea and recently by air.
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Weam Al Dakheel, also Aldakeel, is a Saudi Arabian journalist and television presenter. After Jumanah Al Shami became the first woman to present the morning television news in Saudi Arabia in 2016, in September 2018 Al Dakheel featured on Saudi TV's Channel 1 as the first woman to act as an anchor for the main evening news broadcast, appearing side-by-side with Omas Al Nashwan. Since January 2018, her official job title at the Saudi Broadcasting Authority has been operations manager.
Channel 3, formerly known as H2ZZ-TV and corporately known as Saudi Aramco Television or just Aramco TV was a Saudi terrestrial television station owned by ARAMCO, which in its later years broadcast entirely in English. The station broadcast from the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran.
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