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• Calls for change mount as Saudi lady doctor dies in car crash post her 24-hour shift
  The Saudi medical community has mourned the loss of Dr. Aziza Fatani, a dedicated neonatal intensive care doctor who died in a car accident after completing a 24-hour shift at a hospital in Jeddah.
  The incident, which occurred last Sunday, has sparked widespread calls for reform in hospital work schedules.

• Satellite images show Gazans forced to cram into Al-Mawasi tent city

  Once a tiny fishing village, Al-Mawasi — a Heathrow airport-sized patch of coastal land on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast — is now the fetid, thirsty and disease-filled refuge of tens of thousands of Palestinians. As Israel pounds Rafah in the south of the enclave and re-engages with Hamas in the north, more people from around Gaza are streaming towards Al-Mawasi, hoping the bombing will not follow them. A densely packed tent city has spilled on to the sewage-tainted beach close to the border with Egypt.

• The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

  Such violence over the decades in places like Khirbet Zanuta is well documented. But protecting the people who carry out that violence is the dark secret of Israeli justice. The long arc of harassment, assault and murder of Palestinians by Jewish settlers is twinned with a shadow history, one of silence, avoidance and abetment by Israeli officials.

• Multilingual Saudi women welcoming Hajj pilgrims at Medina airport sparks social media buzz
  Saudi Arabia is set to welcome Hajj pilgrims with a multilingual team of women at Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz International Airport in Medina.
  A video clip showing young Saudi women practising welcome phrases in various languages, including English, French, Turkish, and Indonesian, among others, has gone viral

• HRH Minister of Energy meets with US Secretary of Energy and they sign a roadmap for cooperation in the field of energy

  Within the context of the Partnership for Advancing Clean Energy Agreement, signed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, in Jeddah on July 15, 2022, the Ministers discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries in various energy fields, including carbon management, clean hydrogen, nuclear energy, electricity and renewables, innovation, energy sector supply chain resilience, and energy efficiency.

• Saudi holdings of US Treasuries rose to $135.9B in March 2024

  Saudi Arabia’s holdings of US Treasuries reached $135.9 billion in March 2024, up $4.8 billion month-on-month (MoM), new data released by the US Treasury showed. The Kingdom maintained 17th place among the largest holders of US treasury securities for the month.   Saudi Arabia’s holdings of US Treasuries were distributed among long-term bonds worth $107.3 billion, representing 79% of the total, and short-term bonds worth $28.6 billion, accounting for 21%.

• Baker Hughes To Expand Saudi Arabia Facility

  Baker Hughes is expanding its Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) Damman Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Once completed, the expansion is expected to create 60 new jobs and will add capacity for the manufacturing and repair of compression trains and seal-gas and control panels. In addition, the expanded site will add capabilities for the manufacturing and testing of vibration monitoring systems and gears repairs.

• L&T arm opens new manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia

  Larsen & Toubro on Thursday said its wholly-owned arm L&T Valves Ltd has set up a new manufacturing unit in Saudi Arabia. The facility is strategically located at Al Jubail, off the Dammam-Abu Hadriyah Highway.

  L&T Valves is one of the largest suppliers of on-off valves to Saudi Arabia, the company said in a statement.

• Saudi Arabia offers to buy part of Sharm El Sheikh from Egypt

  Ras Ghamila, which lies at the northern end of Sharm El Sheikh, is one of the resort town’s more upmarket locations, around 15km north of the central district surrounding Na’ama Bay. The local reefs are considered some of the most beautiful of Sharm’s fringing coral reef, and recently made headlines as the site of a Libyan-flagged LPG tanker stranding.

• Saudi Arabia’s holdings in US treasuries rise to $135.9bn

  Saudi Arabia’s holdings in US treasuries increased for the eighth consecutive month in March, reaching $135.9 billion, a rise of 3.66 percent compared to the previous month. According to official data released by Washington, the Kingdom was ranked 17th among the largest investors in such financial instruments in March.

  The report noted that Saudi Arabia’s holdings of US Treasuries were distributed among long-term bonds worth $107.3 billion, representing 79 percent of the total. On the other hand, the Kingdom’s short-term bonds were worth $28.6 billion in March, accounting for 21 percent of the total value.

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