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  • Ukraine’s Zelenskiy has ‘productive’ talks with Saudi crown prince

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held "productive and energetic" talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman focusing on this week's "Peace Summit" in Switzerland and improving bilateral ties.
    Kyiv aims to build international support for a peace plan proposed by Zelenskiy that includes a full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and return to its 1991 post-Soviet borders.

  • Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power Spearheads Energy Transition

    ACWA Power, a leading private developer, investor and operator with 77 power generation and water desalination projects to its name across Saudi Arabia, is driving sustainability and continues to be one of the Middle East’s energy transition leaders.

  • Saudi Women in the Spotlight of the Makkah Route Initiative at Casablanca Airport

    Saudi women have proudly represented themselves in various initiatives and at international forums. During the Hajj season of 1445 AH, many Saudi women from the General Directorate of Passports played a crucial role in serving pilgrims and streamlining procedures, ensuring quick completion of their travel procedures.

  • OPEC sticks to 2024 oil demand growth forecast but trims Q1 view

    OPEC on Tuesday stuck to its forecast for relatively strong growth in global oil demand in 2024, despite lower-than-expected use in the first quarter, saying travel and tourism would support consumption in the second half of the year.
    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, in a monthly report, said world oil demand will rise by 2.25 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2024 and by 1.85 million bpd in 2025. Both forecasts were unchanged from last month.

  • Over 1.5 million pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia for annual pilgrimage

    Over 1.5 million pilgrims have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj season, the Kingdom’s General Directorate of Passports announced on Tuesday. The directorate said that up until Monday, June 10, the number of pilgrims that entered the Kingdom through the air, land and sea ports reached 1,547,295.

  • Jonathan Rynhold: Israel’s Divided Politics

    At the beginning of this war, there was a very strong, unified sense of purpose. It was very clear to all Israelis, not only Israeli Jews, but also Israel's Arab citizens, what Israel needed to do. It needed to defeat Hamas and it needed to use a lot of military force to do that. That kind of bound the country together. The horizon of what you do afterwards was a long, long way off. Over the last few months, we have approached the critical elements where there is more disagreement.

  • Opinion: The US-Saudi Nuclear Agreement: Regional Implications

    Saudi Arabia’s nuclear energy ambitions have been relatively slow compared to the UAE. After establishing the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy in Riyadh in 2010, Saudi officials announced plans to construct 16 nuclear reactors to generate 20 percent of the kingdom’s electricity by 2032. By 2017, the Saudi National Atomic Energy Project outlined a civil nuclear program featuring large nuclear power plants, small modular reactors, and fuel cycle activities. Despite this ambitious vision, progress on small modular reactor projects has been slow, with plans now including just two large nuclear power reactors.

  • Tiger Woods on state of PGA Tour-Saudi negotiations: “We all want the same thing”

    In a wide-ranging if brief media session on Tuesday morning, Tiger Woods touched on a range of topics, and Woods’ prevailing emotion was optimism … whether or not it’s grounded in reality. Woods is attempting two distinct, extraordinarily difficult feats: returning to major-winning ways after catastrophic injury at age 48, and trying to hold together a professional game that appears in danger of fracturing completely in two.

  • Hajj 2024: Saudi Arabia braces for extreme heat

    This year's Islamic Hajj pilgrimage — which starts on June 14 — will not only be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for some 2 million Muslims from around 180 countries who travel to Saudi Arabia, it will also be a physical challenge as temperatures will be above average. "The expected climate for Hajj this year will witness an increase in average temperatures of 1.5 to 2 degrees [Celsius] above normal in Mecca and Medina," national meteorology center chief Ayman Ghulam said last week. For Mecca, which is at the heart of the five-day Hajj pilgrimage, the increase likely spells an average temperature of around 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit).

  • Saudi Arabia plans to upgrade 113 water projects

    The Saudi government-backed National Water Company (NWC) is seeking private investment this year to upgrade 113 existing water and sewage treatment plants, which will have a total capacity of 2.4 million cubic meters per day.
    As part of its long-term operation and maintenance programs, NWC signed a 15-year contract worth $148 million (Dh543 million) with Spain’s Aguas de Valencia Company to rehabilitate, operate, and maintain sewage treatment plants in the Taif region.