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• ‘The sword has a history among the Arabs’: Inside Saudi Arabia’s fencing scene

  Alhasna Al-Hammad, 20, is on the Saudi fencing national team and trains six times a week with her saber sword, balancing her dedication to the sport with the industrial engineering degree she is pursuing at Al-Faisal University. In 2019, Al-Hammad became the first Saudi female fencer in the country’s history to win a gold medal, achieving the feat at the 6th GCC Women’s Games in Kuwait City. A mont later she would become the first Saudi to win a gold Since then, she has participated in a number of world championships and added a bronze medal to her cabinet most recently from the 2023 Arab Games.

• US has agreed to send more bombs and warplanes to Israel, sources say
  The U.S. in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel, two sources familiar with the effort said on Friday, even as Washington publicly expresses concerns about an anticipated Israeli military offensive in Rafah.
  The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, said the sources, who confirmed a report in the Washington Post.

• Self-Checkout Revolutionizing Fast Fashion In The Middle East

  Consumers access the latest trends at an affordable price point. When the trend is over, they don’t feel bad about discarding these clothes, as they were inexpensive to begin with. It’s greatly boosted the already robust $1.7 trillion fashion industry. The experience of snapping up those on-trend pieces is now being redefined by a technological revolution that is taking the Middle East by storm – self-checkout

• Perspective: The U.S. and Israel’s relationship is at a contentious balancing point

  The relationship between the U.S. and Israel has become touchy at this point during the war in Gaza following the Hamas attacks on October 7. The U.S. has openly urged restraint on Israel's military response. Israel's Netanyahu government was upset the U.S. did not veto a U.N. Security Council vote for a temporary cease-fire in Gaza. We're joined now by Princeton professor Daniel Kurtzer. He served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. And before that, he was U.S. ambassador to Egypt and worked in the State Department in the 1980s and '90s.

• Top companies in Saudi Arabia by dividend yield

  Top companies in Saudi Arabia by dividend yield. Companies Market Cap lists top 155 companies.

• Turkey’s resurgent opposition trounces Erdogan in pivotal local elections
  Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president's chief rival.
  With most of the votes counted, Imamoglu led by 10 percentage points in the mayoral race in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, while his Republican People's Party (CHP) retained Ankara and gained 15 other mayoral seats in cities nationwide.

• Oil stays near five-month highs as tighter supply looms
  Oil prices were steady on Monday near five-month highs as markets expect tighter supply from OPEC+ cuts and attacks on Russian refineries while upbeat Chinese manufacturing data supported an improving demand outlook.
  Brent crude was 10 cents lower at $86.90 a barrel by 1115 GMT after rising 2.4% last week. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $83.14 a barrel, down 3 cents following a 3.2% gain last week.

• Israeli troops leave Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a wreck in sea of rubble
  Israeli forces have withdrawn from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the Israeli military said on Monday, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian bodies scattered in the dirt of the complex.
  Hundreds of residents rushed to the area around the Gaza Strip's largest hospital to check on damage to surrounding residential districts after fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group that administers Gaza.

• Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack
  Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major "terrorist operation" on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said.
  In the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall, killing at least 144 people in violence claimed by the Islamic State militant group.

• From palm to pipeline: how Saudi Arabia’s date industry waste is boosting our drilling operations

  For thousands of years, people in the Middle East have made a living from date palms, harvesting the fruit, and turning the leaves into baskets and mats. But, what connects Saudi Arabia’s ancient date plantations to Aramco’s oil and gas operations, which are less than 100 years old? The answer is date palm seeds, which it turns out could be an ideal material for increasing the efficiency of drilling oil and gas wells.

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