Saudi Arabia
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All of these efforts resulted in massive urban sprawl and the domination of commercial uses alongside these highways, which significantly impacted life in the various...
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Saudi Arabia is ready to boost oil production in response to tighter U.S. sanctions on Iran, but doesn’t plan any radical moves. The world’s largest...
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Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. decision to end all Iran sanction waivers by May, saying it was a necessary step to...
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Mohamed Jafar and Hany Osman, cabin crew with Saudi Arabian Airlines, were in transit and staying at one of the three hotels targeted...
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WISeKey International Holding, a cyber-security, IoT and blockchain group of companies, and Saudi Advanced Technologies have announced a joint venture to expand WISeKey’s offerings in...
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A rapid process of social and economic transformation is unfolding in a deeply traditional society, where it is inevitably causing some disquiet....
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Saudi Real Estate Refinance Co (SRC), modelled on U.S. mortgage finance firm Fannie Mae, aims to issue up to 4 billion riyals ($1.07 billion) of...
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King Salman on Monday received regional secretaries, mayors, heads of municipal councils and senior officials of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs at Al-Yamamah...
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Saudi Arabia executed 37 citizens found guilty of various terrorism-related charges, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
The executed were accused of adopting extremist ideology, forming...
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Saudi Arabia’s largest travel company, which has re-branded itself as Seera, aims to more than double the gross value of its bookings in the next...
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Saudi Arabia’s Alinma Bank would be open to a merger if a deal adds value for shareholders, its chief executive officer said.
“Mergers and acquisitions are...
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Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA) approved Saudi British Bank’s (SABB) request for raising its capital to SAR 20.55 billion from SAR 15 billion.
SABB will...
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Gulf International Bank (GIB) has completed the conversion of its Saudi Arabia branches into a locally incorporated bank, the first time that a foreign bank...
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Regional and related topics
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A Sri Lankan defense official said Tuesday that an initial investigation has determined the Easter bombings were carried out in retaliation for the shooting attacks...
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World Oil
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Javier Blas, Salma El-Wardany, Nayla Razzouk, Rachel Adams-Heard and Stephen Cunningham |
4.23.2019
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Drillers based in places like Texas, Oklahoma and California added billions of dollars in market value on Monday after the Trump administration announced it’ll no...
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Reuters
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Lisa Barrington |
4.23.2019
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Yemen’s Houthi forces have missiles that could be fired at Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi should violence escalate in the main Yemeni port city of...
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Foreign Policy
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Keith Johnson and Robbie Gramer |
4.23.2019
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Coming just two weeks after President Donald Trump said he would designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, Monday’s decision represents Washington’s...
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Bloomberg
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Ladane Nasseri |
4.23.2019
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed General Hossein Salami, 58, to replace General Mohammad Ali Jafari, according to a decree. Salami’s fiery speeches during Friday...
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Al-Monitor
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Simon Speakman Cordall |
4.22.2019
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Caught up within the bulging birth rates that have subsumed the region, 54% of Algeria’s current population are under 30 years of age. Significantly, unemployment stands at 26.4% within that same...
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Newsmax
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John Gizzi |
4.23.2019
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Bolton’s vision, one source told us, is “in a Libyan landscape besotted with radical militias and anti-American Islamists, an aspiring strongman like Haftar with past...
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The officials said they are specifically looking for information on Mohammad Bazzi, Adham Tabaja and Ali Charara - three international businessmen and supposed Hezbollah financiers....
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Bloomberg
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Zainab Fattah |
4.23.2019
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Rated A by S&P as recently as four years ago, the company put the sultanate on notice on Friday by cutting the outlook to negative...
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Indians are voting in the third phase of the general elections with campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and the opposition marred...
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In Netanyahu’s future coalition, made up of right-wing parties and the ultra-Orthodox, it looks like almost any potential partner can challenge Netanyahu’s narrow majority and...
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