Riyadh is in central Saudi Arabia and Jeddah is approximately 500 miles west on the Red Sea.
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He points to a Chinese railway being built from Djibouti, on the Red Sea, to Addis Ababa.
But the north has the pipeline, refinery and the export terminal at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
The abduction took place Thursday in Hodeida on the Red Sea coast of the impoverished and restive Arab nation.
Most oilfields are in the landlocked south, which needs northern pipelines to Port Sudan on the Red Sea to export the stuff.
On Thursday, tribesmen demanding the release of prisoners kidnapped a female Swiss teacher in Hodeida on the Red Sea coast, officials said.
Iran, they say, has secretly landed arms on the Red Sea coast.
Eilat, a popular tourist destination on the Red Sea, has previously been hit by rockets fired by militants in neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.
The Orascom family group has gone one better, creating a whole town on the Red Sea, complete with hospital, school and several luxury hotels.
Israel is particularly worried by Iran's eagerness to warm relations with Sudan and Eritrea, a strategic spot on the Red Sea that could threaten Israeli shipping.
By Friday, this rumor had given way to the real news that the now former president would head to his resort home at the seaside resort city of Sharm el Sheikh on the Red Sea.
As jubilant crowds erupted into joy, reports that two military helicopters leaving the presidential palace lead to the assumption that Mubarak is now in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea, where he owns a palace.
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Some of the drones are launched from Djibouti, on the other side of the Red Sea, where the Americans have a base.
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The British and French government, as the protectors of the Arab state, shall agree that they will not themselves acquire and will not consent to a third power acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third power installing a naval base either on the east coast, or on the islands, of the red sea.
The United States has a drone base in Djibouti, at the southern tip of the Red Sea -- on the opposite side of the continent from Mali.
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The vessel was seized by Israeli forces in international waters in the Red Sea early on Thursday and is being held in the port of Eilat.
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- On the day suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Dahab, I switched the TV in the Atlanta anchor office to Egyptian television.
In the third terrorist attack in 18 months on Egypt 's Red Sea coast, three suicide-bombers attacked the quiet resort of Dahab, killing at least 24 people, most of them Egyptians.
Nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse and perched on dry land in the French Quarter, comfortably above sea level, the school now brims with energy, ambition and rising test scores among its 420 students, more than 90% of them from low-income African-American families.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were in Egypt on Tuesday to meet with Arab leaders at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.
Last year, the company stopped selling seven other species on the Greenpeace red list including Atlantic cod, Chilean sea bass and orange roughy, says Jeff Lyons, Costco's senior vice president of fresh foods.
On the other side of the north Pacific, temperatures are warm (shown in red and white) and sea levels remain high at four to 13 inches above normal.
But because the ship was likely to eventually make its way to the Red Sea area, a number of weapons systems are thought to have been stored on the ship.
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Israel says the boat it seized in the Red Sea last Thursday was carrying 50 tonnes of Iranian-supplied munitions to Gaza on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, and has invited the world's press to view the weapons.
During the court proceeding, Mr. Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were acquitted of corruption charges related to the controversial purchase of seaside villas on Egypt's Red Sea Coast.
The bright red PlugBug World is easy to spot in a sea of white adapters in your bag or on the wall at the airport.
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - As many as seven explosions struck the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, targeting several hotels and killing at least 36 people, witnesses and police said.
The first car that officially rolled off the assembly line in Chongqing with a big bow on the hood and under a sea of confetti was a red Focus, which competes with a slew of inexpensive domestic models, such as those from Geely.
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He'd rather just eat his beef-tongue tacos or sea-urchin sushi than treat them like starlets on the red carpet.
On Sunday, the priest Miklos Mold mentioned Moses in his sermon, parting the Red Sea to take his people to the promised land.
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