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Photos of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Top Saudi Leaders Visiting Remote Northwest Saudi Arabia Go Viral
Photographs of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and some of Saudi Arabia’s top officials visiting some of Saudi Arabia’s most famous mountains in the Northwest region of the country have gone viral on social media. The photos showing casually-dressed Saudi ministers and officials were taken last Summer by royal photographer Bandar Al-Jaloud at Jabal Al-Lawz (Almond Mountain) […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Collections from VAT Double Expectations in 2018; Foreign Investment Rebounds
Foreign investment into the Kingdom and VAT collections both more than doubled in 2018 over the previous year, government officials revealed this week as information regarding the Kingdom’s 2019 budget are published. Reuters reports that the Kingdom saw a rebound in foreign investment into Saudi Arabia in 2018 to 13 billion riyals ($3.5 billion), more than […]
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Looking toward Africa, Saudi Seeks Red Sea Political, Economic Bloc
Saudi Arabia is seeking a political and economic alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in a move aimed at strengthening its interests in the crucial waterway and in Africa, according to reports. Representatives from Egypt, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan gathered in Riyadh on Wednesday to discuss the initiative, […]
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Saudi Arabia Braces for More Dangerous Wet Weather
Authorities in Saudi Arabia’s are cautioning that more thunderstorms and wet weather is on its way to several areas across the Kingdom, as locals brace for the potential for additional flooding and other hazards. The country’s General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection warned that heavy winds along with thunder and rain would hit Jazan, […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty for 5 Khashoggi Murder Suspects
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five out of 11 suspects charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Arab News and other local media report. The public prosecutor, Saud al-Mojeb, has concluded that an intelligence officer ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Top aide to the Crown […]
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Oil Prices Rise as Saudi Signals 1m Barrel/Day Cuts to Curb Supply Glut
Oil prices rose on Monday after weeks of losses on oversupply and weak demand forecasts after Saudi Arabia signaled that it would cut supply in order to stabilize the markets. OPEC and its allies signaled a willingness to cut production next year by 1m barrels per day (bpd) on October 2018 levels, according to reports. That would […]
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Launches Project for First Nuclear Plant in Saudi Arabia
Saudi’s crown prince on Monday launched a project to build the first nuclear research reactor in the kingdom, Reuters reports, citing the Saudi Press Agency. The project is one of seven “cutting edge ventures” in the fields of renewable energy, atomic energy, water desalination, genetic medicine and aircraft design that were inaugurated by the crown […]
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Saudi Arabia Adjusts National Transformation Plan (NTP)
Saudi Arabia has adjusted some targets within its five-year National Transformation Plan (NTP), making changes to metrics on the official document that can be found on the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 website. Bloomberg first reported the changes on November 1, noting that the new document “doesn’t affect major fiscal or energy-related reforms” but nevertheless represents a scaling back of […]
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Pompeo Leaves Saudi Arabia, Arrives in Turkey
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concluded his visit to Saudi Arabia and is now in Turkey to meet with Turkish officials including President Erdogan, according to reports. Pompeo said the government pledged to hold anyone accountable in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “[The Saudi government] made a commitment to hold anyone connected […]
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Saudi, Kuwait, UAE Agree to Give Bahrain $10b
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to give Bahrain $10 billion to “support the country’s funding requirements,” Reuters reports, as Bahrain embarks on a fiscal program aimed at eliminating its budget deficit by 2022. The move by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE “makes sense economically” because “any collapse of Bahrain’s currency […]
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Can Saudi and Iran play ball in Lebanon?
In Lebanon, both Saudi and Iran agree on the need to avert a bigger crisis and are prioritizing stability over political gains in the interim. Maintaining cold peace in Beirut while securing their influence could drive both countries into accepting the deal.
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Commentary: Will Iranians watch Saudi-financed Persian TV?
This sense of indifference toward Saudi culture stems largely from the fact that the Saudis have never tried to promote their diverse cultural heritage — such as their music, poetry, artifacts and literature — to the world.
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ISIS In America: Who Is The Average Islamic State Sympathizer?
A new report analyzes the 56 people who were detained this year, of 71 charged since March 2014, and the results paint a rough sketch of the Islamic State’s adherents inside the U.S.
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Should Saudi Arabia see Putin as threat?
We had better take seriously the implicit Russian threats made in an article published by the Pravda website, which is supportive of President Vladimir Putin. It urged the sanction of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey due to what the writer claimed was the three countries' support of ISIS, something it said threatens to trigger World War III.
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Perspective: Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?
Having spent some time analysing the evidence, we believe there is good reason to doubt the veracity of these claims. First, most of the public and policy discourse on the conflict implications of climate change is driven by politics, not science.
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Saudi Arabia Is Sticking To Its Strategy, But For How Long?
It was OPEC's decision in November last year to maintain production that exacerbated the rout in the oil market. As the one-year price chart shows, Brent crude prices saw a steep decline between November 2014 and January 2015, dropping below $50 a barrel.
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Can contractors survive Saudi’s expat worker levy?
Saudi Arabia didn’t have an easy ride during the first nine months of 2015. Amidst the crane collapse at Makkah’s Grand Mosque, which killed 111 people, and global oil-price turbulence threatening a 21.6% budget deficit as per the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Kingdom’s construction sector has been inundated with challenges.
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Understanding the Paris Attacks: Is ISIS a Rational Actor?
In killing 130 civilians in Paris—the worst such attack in France since World War II—ISIS has forced us to contend, once again, with the question of the “rationality” of self-professed ideologues.
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Whatsapp to be blocked? Saudi Arabia refutes rumors
Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has refuted rumors to block social media applications including WhatsApp and Tango, the Arabic daily al-Watan reported on Monday.
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Commentary: Will Saudi Arabia’s shift on climate be a positive factor in Paris?
Under the heading of National Circumstances, the report said right off that Saudi Arabia “exhibits a significant vulnerability” to climate change.
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