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  • Israeli Politics
    Benjamin Netanyahu ridiculed over appearance at Paris solidarity march

    Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a storm of criticism because of his "embarrassing" behaviour at Sunday's mass solidarity march in Paris and his calls for French Jews to emigrate to Israel following last week's deadly attack on a Jewish supermarket.

  • Jarir Marketing
    Saudi retail major posts 25% rise in Q4 net profit

    Jarir Marketing, Saudi Arabia's second-largest listed retailer by market value, beat analysts' estimates as it posted a 25.5 percent increase in fourth-quarter net profit on Wednesday on the back of higher turnover.

  • U.S. - Turkey
    U.S., Turkey agree to Syrian rebel training, but not whom they’ll fight

    Turkey has been adamant that any force deployed in Syria must have as a goal defeating the Assad government, but the Obama administration has insisted it is interested only in battling the Islamic State. There is no need to define the ultimate target now, the Turkish official said, because rebel forces already are fighting a two-front war, against both the Syrian government and the Islamic State.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Iran says Saudi Arabia should move to curb oil price fall

    Falling world oil prices will hurt countries across the Middle East unless Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, takes action to reverse the slump, Iran's deputy foreign minister told Reuters. Hossein Amir Abdollahian described Saudi Arabia's inaction in the face of a six-month slide in oil prices as a strategic mistake and said he still hoped the kingdom, Tehran's main rival in the Gulf, would respond.

  • Shoura and Women
    Move to impose abayas for TV presenters in Saudi

    Although Noora Al Adwan has succeeded in convincing the Council’s culture and information committee of the significance of her proposal, she is likely to face a formidable struggle with women who do not support her motion. The Shura member had earlier this year come under fire after she accused Saudi women working for national television channels of not complying with the traditional Saudi attire and exaggerating their makeup, local daily Al Watan reported on Monday.

  • Islam
    Jihad is not terrorism. Terrorism is not Jihad.

    Using the religion to justify mass murders like the one in Peshawar is even more cruel and heinous than the act itself. That’s because two sins are committed—the murders themselves, and then defamation of Islam by using the religion to justify them.

  • Pakistan: Terrorism
    The Dramatic Rise of Terrorism in Pakistan

    From less than 50 incidents of terrorism in 2002, according to Global Terrorism Index, Pakistan has now become one of the worst victims of terror attacks anywhere in the world with almost 2,000 incidents last year. It was the third-worst terrorism-affected country in 2013 (pdf), with the number of fatalities rising by 20% in the last two years.

  • Capital Markets
    All Eyes Are on the Saudi Stock Market

    The opening of the market to direct foreign investment may be months away, but Middle East asset managers are already gearing up to capture the investment flows expected to pour into the Arab world’s biggest bourse. Their plans — from creating new Saudi-focused funds to establishing or expanding offices in the country’s capital, Riyadh — show they don’t want to miss any opportunities in the soon-to-open $543 billion emerging market.

  • Alarab Channel
    Saudi Prince Alwaleed’s Alarab channel to go live in February

    Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's pan-Arab news channel Alarab will take to the airwaves early next year, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

  • IDB
    Saudi Pledges $35 Million for Fight Against Ebola

    The Islamic Development Bank says the Saudi king has pledged $35 million to help fight Ebola in hard-hit West African countries.