RENEWABLE ENERGY

ACWA Power Wins First Utility-Scale Solar Energy Project in Saudi Arabia

In recent weeks, the Saudi Green Initiative and the Middle East Green Initiative have been announced.
Saudi Arabia has announced that ACWA Power, the Saudi power generation and desalination company, has won the contract for the first utility scale solar power project in Saudi Arabia with a record-breaking tariff of 2.34 US-cents per kilowatt-hour, according to reports.

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Mohammed bin Salman Visit

Saudi prince’s big challenge on US visit: Calming crackdown fears

Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince plans to travel to the United States in the coming weeks, where the 32-year-old economic reformer is expected to cement...

 

Saudi Nuclear Energy

Geostrategic Nuclear Exports: The Competition for Influence in Saudi Arabia

If Washington cedes the nuclear supply game at this early stage of development in Saudi Arabia, Moscow or Beijing will become the primary stewards of...

 

Youth

Commentary: Saudi youth not above starting from “zero”

A growing number of young Saudis are now publicly expressing their pride in starting from “zero” and paying their dues, saying it fills them with...

 

Saudi Women

Saudi women join the workforce

Ghazwan, 30, who has a master's degree in food safety management, is the manager of a Starbucks branch located in the Riyadh head office of...

 

Neom City

Will Saudi Arabia’s latest megacity venture deliver on the hype?

On 1 January 2018, the Saudi authorities converted the government-owned oil company Aramco into a joint-stock company, with plans to sell 5% of its shares...

 

ACWA Power

Record-Low Solar Bid From ACWA Power For 1st Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Project In Saudi Arabia

Leading Saudi developer and operator ACWA Power has announced it has won the right to develop the first utility-scale renewable energy project in Saudi Arabia,...

 

Saudi-Israel

Saudi grants airspace approval for flights to Israel

Saudi Arabia has granted for the first time permission for Air India flights headed to Israel to use its airspace, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported....

 

Yemen Civil War

Saudi Arabia spends almost a billion dollars in aid to Yemen

At a wind-swept camp for those displaced by Yemen’s war, a young Yemeni woman named Leemi, who supports her child and eight others, gratefully accepted...

 

Women in Sports

‘Fight like a girl’: Meet the female kickboxer empowering Saudi women

Despite its image, though, normal Saudis have always had more fun and enjoyed a more liberal lifestyle than outsiders assume....

 

Entertainment

New Saudi horse racing championship to have $17 million in prizes

Saudi Arabia has announced a new horse racing championship with prizes totalling more than $17 million that would make it one of the sport’s richest...

 

Capital Markets

Could the UAE and Saudi Arabia sign up for oil-backed cryptocurrency?

Maduro proposed the plan in a meeting with Mohammed Barkindo, secretary general of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), on Tuesday. “I will...

 

Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco and Petronas Are Close to Raising $8 Billion Loan

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and Malaysia’s state-owned oil firm are close to raising an $8 billion loan to partly finance the construction of a planned...

 

MBS UK Visit

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ‘due to visit UK in March’

The visit was previously set to take place in February, but now appears to have been pushed back amid fears it could be disrupted by...

 

Extremism

US arrests Saudi with Qaeda ties who sought pilot license

An immigrant from Saudi Arabia suspected of applying to join an al-Qaeda training camp has been arrested on a visa fraud charge in Oklahoma, according...

 

Saudi-Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia discuss prospects of military cooperation

Relations between Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia are successfully developing in different fields, Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov said on February 6....

 

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Inside The World’s Most Radical Experiment in Women’s Rights

The most radical experiment in women’s rights is now underway in what may be the world’s least likely place: northern Syria....

 

Afghanistan

Pentagon: Afghan war costing US $45 billion per year

Randall Schriver, the Defense Department’s top Asia official, said the $45 billion total for the year includes $5 billion for Afghan forces and $13 billion...

 

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ISIS Is Still in Business

For all of the victories that the Iraqi government and its international allies have won on the battlefield, they have so far been unable to...

 

Iran Nuclear Agreement

Perspective: What if the Iran deal was a mistake?

The concessions the U.S. had to make in order to get the agreement were judged at the time as necessary to prevent the worst-case scenario—an...

 

Gaza

IDF sounds alarm on Gaza

Eizenkot warned that Gaza is on the verge of collapse and susceptible to a severe humanitarian crisis. Any further deterioration would likely lead to a...

 

Yemen

US conducts 10 counter terrorism strikes in Yemen

US forces conducted 10 counterterrorism strikes in Yemen in January, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a press release today. The US military appears to...

 

Qatar Lobbying

Qatar’s Ramped-Up Lobbying Efforts Find Success in Washington

After Gulf nations began their campaign to isolate Qatar in June 2017, the beleaguered nation retained seven U.S. lobbying firms and dished out almost $5...

 

NATO

Facing Trump’s demands, NATO to consider larger Iraq training mission

After a three-year war with Islamic State, Washington wants to ensure the militants do not re-emerge. While NATO does have trainers in Iraq already, they...

 

Turkey

EU leaders to host Turkey’s Erdogan, the estranged uncle they can’t shut out

European Union leaders are so discomfited by their relationship with Turkey these days that they relegated their summit next month to Varna, a Bulgarian Black...

 

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