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  • UAE, Qatar and FIFA
    Sponsorship of FIFA: a new front in Gulf political rivalry

    FIFA’s tarnished image is without doubt a major reason why Emirates alongside Sony is seeking to disassociate itself from the soccer body. Yet, it is hard to disassociate state-owned Emirates’ decision from the UAE’s deteriorating relations with Qatar that has led to the incarceration in the UAE of Qatari nationals on charges of spying, an environment in which Emiratis are more reluctant to visit Qatar, and UAE’s investment of millions of dollars in efforts to undermine its Gulf rival’s image and credibility.

  • U.S.-Iran Hostage Aftermath
    Opinion: Thirty-five years after Iranian hostage crisis, the aftershocks remain

    Carter decided to admit the shah under heavy pressure from three of the shah’s most powerful American allies: David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and John McCloy. He rejected pleas from American diplomats in Tehran, who sent him a cable warning that admitting the shah “would almost certainly meet with immediate and violent reaction.” When those diplomats were told that their appeal had been ignored, one of them later recalled, “faces literally went white.” Eerily, Carter himself seemed to have some idea of what might lie ahead. At one White House meeting, he rhetorically asked his aides, “What are you guys going to advise me to do if they overrun our embassy and take our people hostage?”

  • Sectarian Violence
    Saudi Forces Killed Arresting Suspects in Attack on Shiites

    Arrests took place in six cities yesterday, and the security force members were killed while detaining suspects in Buraidah in the central Qassim region, the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman it didn’t identify. Two suspects were also killed, and a total of 20 are being held, according to Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television.

  • U.S. Defense Policy
    John McCain Poised to Control Senate’s Defense Policy

    As committee chairman, McCain would have an influential role in spearheading defense policy from Capitol Hill. That includes the Senate's version of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill that outlines defense policy and tells the Pentagon what it can and can't spend money on. He'll also gain a megaphone to voice his frequent opposition to the Obama administration on military and national security issues. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby downplayed any concerns over McCain gaining the top spot, but, at least publicly, the senator's relationship with the Pentagon has been rocky.

  • Aerospace and Aviation
    Indonesian jets intercept Saudi aircraft

    Indonesian fighter planes on Monday intercepted a Saudi civilian plane for entering the country’s airspace without permit, news reports said.

  • Kingdom Tower Jeddah
    Work at world’s tallest tower picks up pace

    Earlier this year, JEC announced the arrival of the biggest and tallest custom-made cranes supplied by Germany’s Liebherr & WolffKran. The enormous yellow lifting devices, known as “climbing cranes,” are designed to accompany the Kingdom Tower’s growth both externally and internally, in the latter case utilizing any of the building’s 65 interior elevator shafts to make the climb. The Kingdom Tower will have 58 high-speed elevators and the world’s fastest double-decker elevators that travel at 12 meters a second. The elevators are designed to produce electricity while moving, which contributes to energy conservation and environment protection.

  • MERS
    WHO MERS update for Saudi Arabia

    Globally, WHO has been notified of 897 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including at least 325 related deaths.

  • Sports Venues
    Aramco gets bids for 11 stadiums

    The new stadiums each with a capacity to accommodate 45,000 spectators, will be built in much the same way the state-of-the-art King Abdullah Sports City located about 50 km from Jeddah was built. A pre-bid meeting was held with selected groups in Bahrain on September 26. The bidders have been asked to submit their unit rates for work as Aramco has fast-tracked the scheme and the final designs have yet to be completed.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem train line destined to connect Jews and Arabs has widened bitter divide

    When it opened three years ago, the Jerusalem Light Rail was hailed by city boosters as a symbol of coexistence, a whispery smooth ride across some of the most bitterly fought real estate in history.

  • NCB
    Fatwa No Barrier to Saudi Arabia’s $6 Billion Bank IPO

    Saudi Arabia’s largest bank said in a statement yesterday it attracted 215.8 billion riyals ($58 billion) of bids from about 1.2 million investors as of 8 p.m. in Riyadh. While that pales by comparison with the almost 9 million who subscribed for Alinma Bank’s IPO in 2008, NCB’s offering to sell 300 million shares was almost 16-times oversubscribed, signaling investors pitched for larger blocs of shares.