Orders for Saudi Aramco’s debut international bond topped $100 billion on Tuesday, Reuters reports, in what amounts to a "record breaking vote of market confidence" for Aramco after facing investor concerns about government influence over the company.
Saudi Arabia welcomes the U.S. decision to designate Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organisation, Saudi state media said on Tuesday....
“In cases where the Secretary of State has credible information that officials of foreign governments have been involved in significant corruption or gross violations of...
Development of the Red Sea Project, an initiative by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to diversify the kingdom's oil-dominated economy, officially began last month with...
Saudi Arabia’s first reactor will not instantly propel Riyadh to the rank of major nuclear power, experts have cautioned.
“It’s a small reactor that is essentially...
Power efficiency is one of the central themes of Saudi Vision 2030. Thirty-eight percent of the Saudi production of oil and gas is locally consumed,...
The escalation of US–China trade tensions, needed credit tightening in China, macroeconomic stress in Argentina and Turkey, disruptions to the auto sector in Germany, and...
The Revolutionary Guard was created in parallel to the country’s existing armed forces to consolidate power under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1979 Islamic Revolution....
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Dan Williams and Ari Rabinovitch |
4.9.2019
Israelis began voting on Tuesday in an election that could hand right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a record fifth term or see him dethroned by...
Turkish electoral authorities on Tuesday rejected a request by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party for a full recount of ballots cast in...
Afghanistan will send a government delegation for talks with the Taliban in Qatar, in a potential breakthrough in efforts to end the nearly 18-year war,...
The National Vulnerability Analysis Report of Afghanistan states that Kuchi communities (both nomadic and semi-sedentary) have limited access to health, education, and livelihood standards since...
Drip by drip, the oil-producing countries of the Middle East are watching their share of the global crude market drain away. U.S. production is soaring...
Over the weekend, crowds converged on the heart of Bashir's rule -- Sudan's presidential palace and the nation's military headquarters -- responding to a renewed...
While Trump is expected to embrace the Egyptian leader, members of Congress in particular are increasingly vocal in their opposition to Sisi's seizure of power...
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Aziz El Yaakoubi and Tom Miles |
4.9.2019
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which head an Arab coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen, will provide $200 million in aid to...
