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Hofuf

(hʊˈfuːf)
n
(Placename) another name for Al Hufuf
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Ho•fuf

(hʊˈfuf)

n.
a city in E Saudi Arabia. 100,000.
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An additional daily flight to Riyadh Airport (RUH) and five flights a week to Hofuf Airport (HOF) will start from March 16.
Saudi Cement has signed an agreement with GE Power for the upgrade of three GE 6B gas turbines at its Hofuf plant to increase power output and efficiency.
Iftar meal boxes are available on flights to Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Basra, Dammam, Dubai, Gassim, Kuwait Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Abha, Alexandria, Amman, Bagdad, Khartoum, Medina, Najaf, Salalah, Sulaymaniyah, Taif, Hofuf, Shiraz, Luxor and Mashad.
However, their father's body is still trapped amidst legal formalities and is being kept in a hospital in the Hofuf district of the eastern province of Saudi Arabia.
LuLu Group chairman Yusuffali MA said plans include the launch of more hypermarkets this year, including one more in Jeddah and one each in Hail and Hofuf.
Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki will participate in the conference of "terrorism and sectarian extremism in Africa" to be held next Wednesday and Thursday in Khartoum, and in the a symposium titled "the danger of terrorism and extremism" at King Faisal University in Hofuf on 27 of this month.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry identified one of the attackers in al-Ahsa as 22-year-old Abdulrahman al-Tuwaijri, a Saudi citizen, who detonated an explosive vest outside the Imam Rida mosque in the Mahasen district of Hofuf.
The service will be a replica of the Haramain high-speed train, and will go through Hofuf in its first phase with a goal to establish another electric line between Riyadh and Al-Kharj, he added.
The existing Riyadh-Dammam passenger line is also being upgraded, with the 214km first phase of a $100m-plus project to double the track lines between Hofuf and Harad likely to complete by the middle of this year.
Qatar Airways currently operates 86 flights per week to seven destinations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, namely, Dammam, Riyadh, Jeddah, Madinah, Gassmin, Ta'if and Al Hofuf.
Earlier this year, flydubai began flights to Hofuf in Saudi Arabia and Emirates started services to Boston in the United States, Taipei in Taiwan and Kiev in Ukraine.
The urban population of the city, also known as Hofuf, is just under