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A Saudi citizen was among several terror suspects who were arrested by authorities on British soil for his involvement in potential terror plots.
While the latest 25 percent slide in oil prices to below $90 a barrel is so far modest compared with the 1980s slump that took crude from $35 to below $10, many observers see similarities in a global market that is on the brink of a pivotal turn from an era of scarcity to one of abundance
According to the study, Saudi Arabia’s travel sector is also influenced by the ever-increasing number of seasonal travelers from across the globe during umrah and hajj. Apart from this, inflow of non-GCC nationals into Saudi Arabia is mostly restricted to business and family visits as there is no provision for tourism visas currently.
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the world's top oil exporter should start worrying about the recent slide in global oil prices and warned against the negative effect of such a drop on the state revenue.
Brokers and smugglers in Turkey continue to target Saudi youth who arrive in the country and convince them to fight in areas of conflict, according to the local Saudi ambassador.
The Defense Department spent $486 million to buy the fleet of 20 Italian-made G222 military transport planes for the Afghan Air Force, but the agency terminated the program in 2013 because of problems with performance, maintenance and spare parts that kept the aircraft grounded. The agency sold 16 of the planes as scrap for six cents per pound, recovering a tiny fraction of the price it paid for the them. Four of the aircraft remain intact at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has begun operating more than 1,600 Haj return flights to all destinations from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and Prince Mohammed International Airport in Madinah following the end of the annual pilgrimage.
“There are almost no Saudi teachers,” he says. “The vast majority of teachers in Saudi Arabia are not Western expats like me, they’re Egyptians or Jordanians or Syrians or from Yemen. “A lot of them are great teachers, but they haven’t had the sort of grounding that we would have for example in a Master of Teaching program. They need a lot of professional development.
Under the Oslo accords of the 1990s, Palestinian fishermen are supposed to be able to fish 37 kilometers (20 nautical miles) off the coast of Gaza, but Israel has tightened that limit to within 11 kilometers (six nautical miles) of the coast due to its security concerns. Israel’s blockade is affecting the already weak economy in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
Non-oil private business activity in Saudi Arabia grew at the fastest pace in over three years last month, buoyed by strong expansions in new orders and employment, a survey showed on Tuesday.
