A Saudi court has jailed 45 people including government officials in connection with deadly flooding five years ago in Jeddah, reports said Monday.

The 2009 floods killed 123 people, left thousands homeless and provoked unprecedented outrage in the kingdom's second-largest city.

Investigators in Saudi Arabia were on Sunday probing the possible motives behind an attack on a Canadian citizen, which came one week after the shooting of a Dane.

"We're still trying to figure out what the motive is," a source familiar with the situation told Agence France Presse.

A Canadian citizen was in stable condition at a Saudi Arabian hospital on Saturday after being attacked in a shopping mall in the country's east, police said.

The attack came one week after a Danish citizen was shot and wounded in the kingdom's capital, a rare incident which has not been explained.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to nine the number of people from his country executed since mid-October.

Mohammed Rahman Mohammed Asghar had been "tried and found guilty of smuggling a large quantity of heroin into the kingdom," the official Saudi Press Agency said.

A French military delegation and officials at the Lebanese defense ministry reached a final agreement on the arms and ammunition that the army needs under the $3 billion Saudi grant announced last year, An Nahar daily reported on Thursday.

The newspaper said that the discussions between the Lebanese officials and the delegation, which includes military experts and representatives from French companies, settled the Lebanese army's request for aid to its ground, navy and air brigades.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri noted Wednesday that Riyadh's call for blacklisting Hizbullah as a “terrorist” organization must not have any impact on the domestic Lebanese affairs, voicing support for any dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement.

“We back any dialogue that gathers the Lebanese,” Asiri said in an interview with NBN television, revealing that during talks in Ain al-Tineh he sensed insistence by Speaker Nabih Berri to secure the success of dialogue between the two parties.

A French delegation arrived in Lebanon for a number of meetings with related officials to finalize the specific military needs of the Lebanese army under the Saudi grant.

The delegation comprises 30 representatives of the French state and the military industry and they are in Lebanon to finalize what kind of arms its army needs from the Saudi grant's remaining 150-300 million dollars, the An Nahar daily reported on Wednesday.

The Saudi Ambassador has informed Speaker Nabih Berri that a request made by Riyadh to the U.N. to blacklist Hizbullah and efforts to hold dialogue between al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah were separate issues.

Local dailies on Wednesday quoted Berri as telling his visitors that he inquired Ambassador Ali Awadh Asiri about the request made last week by the Saudi diplomat to add Hizbullah to the U.N.'s sanctions list.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri announced Tuesday that his country supports any dialogue initiative that could pave the way for electing a new Lebanese president, “regardless of the events in the region.”

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia believes that the priority that Lebanon needs at the moment is enhancing unity among its citizens,” Asiri said after meeting Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh.

A Pakistani on Tuesday became the eighth person from his country to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking since mid-October.

Seyfour al-Rahman Golajan is the latest of 73 people, foreigners and Saudis, to be executed in the kingdom this year, according to an Agence France Presse tally.