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  • Abdullah Qandeel
    The Saudi artist jailed for vandalizing a New York hotel is at it again

    Meet the newest art-world bad boy — a jet-setting Saudi playboy jailed for vandalizing a New York hotel and whose work is selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Abdullah Qandeel (above) turned his room at Midtown’s Chatwal hotel into an art studio Tuesday — even taking a hotel picture off the wall and using it as a canvas. Last year, he was arrested for painting a mural inside his suite at the 6 Columbus hotel.

  • Saudi - Turkey
    Erdogan tests waters in Riyadh

    Following Erdogan’s 35-minute meeting with Salman on March 2, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported, “The sides had agreed to boost support to the Syrian opposition and to boost bilateral ties.” This is all that could be announced after Erdogan’s visit, and the scanty information is being taken as a sign that no major breakthroughs were achieved in Riyadh. Erdogan can, however, point to this visit in trying to convince his domestic supporters that he is not as isolated in the region as his opponents say. But that is domestic, not foreign policy.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Saudi Arabia: Don’t blame us for oil’s big plunge

    Too much oil: Eight months after the oil price began falling, the supply glut still exists. Oil dropped back below $50 a barrel on Wednesday after new data revealed a huge increase in U.S. crude supplies over the past week to all-time record highs.

  • Global Energy Markiets
    US Will Never Gain Oil Market Crown Says IEA Head

    No matter how much oil the United States produces over the next few years, it will never become the next Saudi Arabia in the global oil market, according to Fatih Birol, the incoming executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). What's especially interesting about this forecast is that it directly contradicts what Birol said only three months ago, and he gave no explanation for his change of mind.

  • Global Energy Markiets
    U.S. oil rises, Brent pares losses on Iran news

    U.S. oil futures rose on Wednesday and benchmark Brent pared losses as OPEC member Iran stressed that it opposed a timeline for a freeze on nuclear activities, news that helped crude rebound from an early slide tied to swelling U.S. stockpiles.

  • King Abdullah 1924-2015
    The Legacy of King Abdullah: A Conversation with Amb Chas Freeman

    Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was in effect the ruler of Saudi Arabia for 20 years — ten years as de facto regent during the illness of King Fahd and ten years as King in his own right. His impact on the Kingdom was enormous. However, in the case of Saudi Arabia you only see change in the rear view mirror. You don’t notice it as it is happening but he transformed the Kingdom in a number of important ways.

  • Saudi - Pakistan
    PM arrives on a three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia

    Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif arrived here Wednesday for a three-day official visit on the special invitation of Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Prime Minister received a very warm welcome as he alighted from his special aircraft at King Khalid Airport.

  • Pakistan: Finding Binladin
    He Led the CIA to bin Laden—and Unwittingly Fueled a Vaccine Backlash

    More than three years after U.S. Navy SEALs raided bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it remains unclear whether Afridi knew he was working for the CIA when he led a hepatitis B vaccination campaign that helped U.S. agents learn where bin Laden was hiding.

  • Al-Qaeda in Syria
    Syria’s Nusra Front may leave Qaeda to form new entity

    Sources within and close to Nusra said that Qatar, which enjoys good relations with the group, is encouraging the group to go ahead with the move, which would give Nusra a boost in funding. The exercise could transform Nusra from a weakened militia group into a force capable of taking on Islamic State at a time when it is under pressure from bombing raids and advances by Kurdish and Iraqi military forces.

  • Cybersecurity
    Cyberspace Conflict Growing More Destructive, NSA’s Chief Says

    “I liken our historical moment to the situation that confronted the U.S. early in the Cold War, when it became obvious that the Soviet Union and others could build hydrogen bombs and the superpower competition showed worrying signs of instability,” Rogers said in his testimony.