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• Housing
  Saudis second-biggest investors in Dubai real estate sector

  DLD’s report revealed that citizens of Saudi Arabia were ranked in second place on the list of GCC real estate investment after making 1,121 transactions worth AED3,371 billion in the first half of 2014.

• Infrastructure
  GCC to spend $86bn on infrastructure projects

  Infrastructure project awards across the GCC are forecast to exceed $86billion in 2014, an increase of 77.8 percent over 2013. New figures released by construction intelligence firm Ventures Onsites how a dramatic increase in contract awards across the region, in every country except Saudi Arabia.

• Tadawul Opening
  Saudi Stock Market Foreign Opening: A Conversation with John Sfakianakis

  Last week the Saudi Capital Markets Authority announced the stock market, the Tadawul All Shares Index TASI, with a $530 billion capitalization, will open to foreign investment in less than 12 months. The announcement last week came as the Saudi economy continues to demonstrate strong performance with a recent IMF assessment noting it was one of the “best performing G-20 economies.”

• Questions of Weapons and Warnings in Past Barrage on a Gaza Shelter

• MH17
  U.S. discloses intelligence on downing of Malaysian jet

  Senior U.S. intelligence officials cited sensors that traced the path of the missile, shrapnel markings on the downed aircraft, voiceprint analysis of separatists claiming credit for the strike, and a flood of photos and other data from social-media sites.

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• Islam
  Turkey’s Culture Wars

  Turkey is replete with political confrontations and cultural clashes, and way too often, unfortunately, the battleground is women’s bodies. Men of all political persuasions feel free to lecture women on how to dress and how to live.

• Energy
  Kurdish Oil Gambit Hits Troubled Waters

  Shortly before midnight, an oil tanker set sail from Turkey's Ceyhan port one day in late May with a historic, $100 million cargo. The tanker, United Leadership, ferried the first major consignment of Kurdish crude into the Mediterranean that night, a million-barrel payload with the potential to shift oil markets and transform the geopolitics of the Middle East. The oil, pumped to Turkey through a newly built...

• GAZA
  Hamas, Israel signal unwillingness to compromise

  The Islamist militant organization Hamas said Monday that it would not agree to a cease-fire with Israel until its demands were met, as Israel warned that its incursion into the Gaza Strip could continue for days or even weeks.

• soudi pt2
  73 accidents in Jeddah in a single day | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  73 accidents in Jeddah in a single day

• Health Ministry needs overhaul | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Health Ministry needs overhaul

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