MBS IN THE UK

Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Pledge Billions in Bilateral Trade and Investments

MBS in the UK
Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom re-affirmed bi-lateral trade and investment ties on the second day of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit in London with billions in deals eyed in the coming years.

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MBS UK Visit

Saudi crown prince and UK eye billion-dollar deals

Saudi Arabia's crown prince and the U.K.'s prime minister launched an economic and investment partnership worth billions of dollars on Wednesday, amid human rights protests...

 

Shale Oil

Saudis Seek to Tap Shale Gas Basin Rivaling Texas’ Eagle Ford

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil exporter, is set to join the shale revolution with plans to start producing unconventional natural gas this month and...

 

Technology

Magic Leap raises $461 million from Saudi Arabia investors

About $400 million comes from The Public Investment Fund, an investment arm of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia....

 

Mohammed Bin Salman

Saudi crown prince sees a new axis of ‘evil’ in the Middle East

In remarks reportedly made this week in a meeting with Egyptian newspaper editors, he pointed to a “triangle of evil” in the Middle East made up...

 

Women Drivers

Uber reveals campaign to get more Saudi women behind the wheel

Uber on Thursday announced Masaruky - Arabic for "your path" - a two-year initiative that aims to increase women’s participation in the workforce in Saudi...

 

Mohammed Bin Salman

Forget the naysayers. Saudi’s crown prince is the real deal

With Bin Salman, though, things are different. For a start, he is not spouting reform rhetoric by sucking up to critics in the West, who...

 

Saudi Nuclear Energy

Does Saudi Arabia Intend to Develop a Nuclear Weapons Capability?

A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security....

 

Saudi Women

Will Saudi Arabia Free Its Women?

Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, is in the United Kingdom this week to meet two female leaders: Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister...

 

Saudi Tourism

Going to Saudi Arabia? How to visit this desert kingdom

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Saudi-Israel

Air India’s flight to Israel will be first to use Saudi airspace

For the first time ever, an international airline can use Saudi airspace to fly to Israel....

 

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Syria

Ghouta aid postponed as Syria regime presses assault

Aid agencies postponed a convoy of vital food and health supplies to Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, as the Syrian regime pressed a relentless ground and...

 

Russia in the Region

Russia Can’t Solve Israel’s Security Dilemma

Israel lost its first aircraft in combat since the early 1980s last month. Syrian air defenses shot down an Israeli F-16I, leaving the airmen inside...

 

Iranian Missile Defense

Iran’s Russian Anti-Aircraft Missile Now Operational, U.S. Says

Iran tested and deployed a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile system last year that has long worried U.S. and Israeli military officials because it gives the Islamic...

 

China in the Region

‘Significant’ consequences if China takes over Djibouti port, says US general

Marine General Thomas Waldhauser said in his remarks to lawmakers that China could theoretically cut off supplies to a US base in the northeast African...

 

War in Yemen

Yemen officials say UAE barring ships with government cash

Like most other southern ports, Aden is under the control of the UAE, a key partner in the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Shiite Houthi rebels,...

 

Iranian Wrestling Federation

Wrestling Chief Joins Others Refusing to Play Iran’s Game

Re-elected to this position just two months ago, he quit this week to protest the government’s requirement that Iranian wrestlers deliberately lose matches to avoid having to...

 

oreign Sovereign Immunities Act

U.S. top court turns away dispute involving Iran’s Bank Melli

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Iranian government-owned Bank Melli’s appeal of a lower court ruling that allowed victims of militant...

 

Hariri Assassination

Lebanon tribunal rules to proceed on Rafik Hariri assassination

Presiding Judge David Re said the attack was an "act of terrorism" intended to sow fear among the Lebanese people, and could only have been...

 

Mueller Investigation

Businessman with ties to United Arab Emirates is cooperating with Mueller probe

Investigators are interested in Nader’s role at a January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles between Erik Prince, a supporter of President Trump, and a Russian...

 

Iran

Iran’s missile production has increased three-fold: Guards commander

Iran has increased its missile production three-fold, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said Wednesday, according to the Fars news service....

 

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