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• Saudi Arabia to hold national finals of world’s biggest start-up pitch competition

  Start-ups from Saudi Arabia will this week compete in the national finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) 2020, the world's biggest pitch competition for entrepreneurs, as they vie to win six cash prizes of $50,000 (Dh183,625) and a place in the Misk Global Forum finals. The event, which will be held virtually on September 7 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will see 15 of the kingdom's most promising start-ups give three-minute pitches, followed by two minutes of judges’ questions.

  • Arab News - Saudi Entrepreneurship World Cup contenders fight for $1m prize
• Saudi Arabia provides free extension of visas, residency permits

  Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) on Monday extended the validity of re-entry visas of expats stranded abroad due to the suspension of international flights announced in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. No fee will be charged for the month-long extension, which is also applicable to all expats who are in the Kingdom but whose exit/entry visas have expired due to the closure of borders.

• Houthis say Saudi’s Abha airport targeted with drones, disabled for hours

  A military spokesman for Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said that the group targeted Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport with a number of drones. Yahya Sarea wrote on Twitter “the continuous attack of the drones on Abha International Airport led to disabling it for several hours”.

• Libya Political Talks in Morocco Appear Bumpy Despite Some Measure of Goodwill

  As political talks wound down on the second and final day of negotiations in the town of Bouznika, Libya's two rival camps issued a statement saying that they were "intent on reaching an agreement." Libya's Tobruk-based parliament spokesman Abdallah Bilhaq told journalists Monday that "the objective of the talks is to decide how to apportion posts and not to select any names for those posts."

• Syria’s Assad says he wants to expand Russian investments to help offset U.S. sanctions

  Assad, who gave the comments during a meeting in Damascus with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said he wanted to see Russian investments in key areas of the economy that had been agreed in the past succeed.

• Saudi GDP fell in Q2 and economic recovery will be slow -report

  The recovery in the kingdom's non-oil economy from the sharp downturn between March and May has stuttered. After jumping by 15 percent year-o-year (y-o-y) in June, point of sale transactions and ATM withdrawals – proxies for consumer spending – rose by a more modest 2.9 percent (y-o-y) in July, the research firm said.

  • Arabian Business - Saudi economy 'recovering' after coronavirus, oil price double shock
  • Zawya - Saudi economy returning to pre-crisis level: Finance Minister
• Russia’s Putin, Saudi king discuss OPEC+ oil deal, COVID vaccine in call – Kremlin

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman spoke by telephone on Monday and said they were satisfied with how the deal between OPEC and non-OPEC producers to limit oil output was being implemented, the Kremlin said in a statement.

  • Arab News - King Salman and Putin discuss oil partnership, vaccine production
• New book features landscapes, ancient sites, illustrations of Saudi Arabia’s AlUla

  “AlUla is just amazing and unparalleled,” said Polidori. “I try to render what I call an emblematic image usually showing its entirety through its details and vice versa. I tried to give a timeless image.”

• Saudi court issues final verdicts for 8 people in death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

  Five people were given 20 years in prison, another person received a 10-year sentence, and the two remaining people were ordered to serve seven years in prison, a spokesperson for Saudi Arabia's public prosecution bureau announced.

• Inside world’s largest camel hospital in Saudi [Video]

  The world's biggest hospital for treating camels opened its doors in Saudi Arabia's central Qassim region to provide medical services and conduct research on the Kingdom's beloved desert animal.

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