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  • Saudi health minister: ‘COVID-19 numbers can rise unexpectedly, we must adhere to safety measures’

    Saudi Arabia recorded just 421 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday as a result of a months-long lockdown and strict adherence to precautionary measures. There have been 338,132 cases in the Kingdom since the COVID-19 pandemic began, 9,391 of those are currently active, with 879 patients in critical care units. A further 25 deaths were announced on Thursday, bringing the total number of COVID-related deaths in Saudi Arabia to 4,972.

  • Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Dismisses ”Speculation” About Peak Demand

    Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Aramco doesn’t fear peak oil demand as it doubles down on boosting oil production in the long term to beat its competitors, many of which are pledging significant investments in low-carbon energy. Aramco is set on increasing its production capacity, and by extension, the production capacity of the world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, to squeeze out as much oil as possible, analysts and sources in the industry told Reuters this week.

  • Saudi Arabia May Face Budget Squeeze After 2021, Moody’s Says

    Saudi Arabia may not be able to rely on annual dividends of almost $75 billion from state oil company Saudi Aramco beyond next year unless crude prices increase, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The government, which owns 98% of Aramco, has depended on the dividend to help plug its budget deficit. “The government is unlikely to be able to repeat the maneuver beyond 2021,” Moody’s said in a report. This is the case “particularly when taking into account Saudi Aramco’s own capital expenditure needs and its commitment” to buying Saudi Basic Industries Corp.

  • A Saudi Prince Ends Era Of Blanket Palestinian Support

    This week, in a three-part series on government-controlled Al Arabiya television, Saudi Arabia served the Palestinian leadership with a writ of divorce and a stinging bill of particulars that explained the break-up. Delivered by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the country’s leading elder statesman, it brutally laid out the failures of Palestinian leaders going back more than 70 years. It also suggests the futility of present Palestinian policies and the grim future it will bring the people it is supposed to represent.

  • Saudis Consider Canceling OPEC Plans to Boost Output

    Saudi Arabia is considering canceling OPEC plans for an oil output hike early next year, senior Saudi oil advisers said, as Covid-19 cases in many parts of the world rise and the expected return of Libyan crude threatens to swell global supplies. In April, the 13-member, Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and 10 Russia-led producers agreed to carry out record production cuts of 9.7 million barrels a day, as the initial flare-up of the new coronavirus shuttered economies around the world, grounding flights and public transportation and closing offices and factories.

  • All US Troops In Afghanistan To Withdraw By Christmas, Confused Trump Tweet

    All U.S. troops currently serving in Afghanistan will return to the United States by Christmas, President Donald Trump said in a shocking tweet Wednesday night just hours after his national security advisor said that the United States would draw down its forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 by early next year.

  • Trump administration to impose crushing sanctions on Iran in defiance of European humanitarian concerns

    The measures will target the few remaining banks not currently subject to secondary sanctions in a move European governments say is likely to diminish channels Iran uses to import humanitarian goods, such as food and medicine, officials said.

  • ‘Treated like slaves’, migrant workers bear brunt of Lebanon crisis

    Chanting their national anthem in the departure hall of Beirut airport, a group of migrant workers prepared to return home and close a chapter on their time in Lebanon which drove some to despair,

  • Lebanon’s ‘boat people’: Desperate Tripoli residents attempt sea crossing to Europe

    Hundreds of impoverished Lebanese people have recently tried to make the sea crossing from the northern port city of Tripoli to Cyprus in order to escape the country's financial meltdown. FRANCE 24 met three of them in Tripoli after they were sent back by Cypriot authorities. The "Lady Rayan" was ready to leave Lebanon for good. The unsophisticated 20-metre wooden boat had seen better days, back when it was used to ferry tourists from Tripoli's El Mina harbour to the nearby Palm Islands Nature Reserve.

  • Saudi Arabia announces pro e-sports league

    The Saudi Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports has launched the Saudi Electronic League 2020. It will bring together some of The Kingdom’s finest gamers for a tournaments worth more than two million Saudi riyals (just over US$500,000). It is thought the league will involve three tournaments across three different games. The first, the Saudi Dota 2 league, will involve eight of Saudi Arabia’s professional e-sports teams playing the strategy game Defence Of The Ancients 2.