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  • Saudi Arabia: Women’s fashion projected to become $53bn market by 2030

    Rising female workforce participation, coupled with increasing westernisation of clothing, besides rising social media influence and mushrooming of online shopping platforms are the driving forces for the unprecedented growth in the fashion wear segment in Saudi Arabia, the research by global advisory firm RedSeer said.

  • First Iraqi car enters Kuwait after 33 years

    Iraqi Ambassador to Kuwait, Al-Manhal Al-Safi, announced yesterday the entry of the first Iraqi car into Kuwait in more than 33 years. This came ahead of the football match between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti national teams in the Asian qualifiers for the 2030 World Cup, scheduled to be held tomorrow. Al-Safi said on his account on X that the car belongs to an Iraqi citizen who came to attend the match, and thanked Kuwait for the warm reception.

  • UAE completes Arab world’s first nuclear plant

    Abu Dhabi's Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant will produce 40 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity annually after its fourth and final reactor entered commercial operation, the state-owned Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said in a statement. It will generate 25% of the electricity needs of the hot, desert Gulf state, where air-conditioning is ubiquitous – nearly the equivalent of New Zealand's annual consumption, ENEC said.

  • Dr. Basma AlBuhairan: A Story of Cross-Sector Leadership

    The Kingdom’s ranking in global innovation and technology indices is continuously improving. Saudi Arabia jumped 10 ranks to achieve 2nd place among the G20 countries according to ITU’s ICT Development Index (IDI) 2023

  • How a Saudi university’s AI solution is revolutionizing Red Sea coral conservation

    The groundbreaking technology, Coral-AI, combines real-time environmental monitoring with automated delivery of beneficial microorganisms, offering a proactive approach to preserving coral health not just in the Red Sea, but potentially across the world’s oceans. The Red Sea, the world’s northernmost tropical sea, is a semi-enclosed body of water connected to the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea through the narrow Suez Canal and Bab Al-Mandab Strait.

  • Iran’s president visits Iraq amid Middle East tensions

    Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Iraq on Wednesday on his first foreign trip, signalling the clerical establishment's intention to strengthen ties with a strategic ally of both Tehran and Washington as regional tensions rise. Pezeshkian, a relative moderate who was elected in July, met Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at the start of a three-day visit that Tehran and Baghdad said would include the signing of a number of agreements and discussion of the Gaza war and the situation in the Middle East.

  • 23 years later, September 11 families continue quest for accountability from Saudi Arabia through civil lawsuit

    Now, as survivors and the victims’ families commemorate another anniversary, they await a federal judge’s pivotal decision in their yearslong legal battle with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over their claim of KSA’s role in backing an extremist support network that assisted the hijackers in the US leading up to the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Kingdom denies the allegations.

  • Saudi FM discuss Palestine, Syria and Somalia crises with counterparts in Cairo meeting

    Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with his counterparts at the sidelines of the Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Tuesday. During the meeting, ministers discussed joint Arab action to intensify coordination on the Palestinian issue and other matters of concern. Regional and international developments were also discussed at the meeting that was attended by a Turkish foreign minister for the first time in 13 years.

  • Saudi Arabia says Israel humanitarian aid blockade in Gaza amounts to ‘war crime’

    Saudi Arabia said, Tuesday, that Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is a “war crime” and a “humanitarian catastrophe”, according to Saudi state channel, Al-Ikhbariya. The failure to reach a ceasefire in Gaza for nearly a year is evidence of the “repeated failure of the international security system,” Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, said at a news conference in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, Anadolu Agency reports. Bin Farhan criticised Israel’s intransigence and refusal to agree to a ceasefire.

  • Saudi Arabia reopens embassy in Syria, completing reconciliation with Assad regime

    At a reception held at Damascus’s Four Seasons Hotel on Monday, Saudi Chargé d’Affaires, Abdullah Al-Harith, stated that the reopening of the Kingdom’s diplomatic mission in Syria “represents an important moment in the history of relations between our two brotherly countries”. He also emphasised Riyadh’s commitment to developing bilateral relations with Damascus.