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  • Inaugural Esports World Cup signs off with historic closing ceremony

    Over the course of eight consecutive weeks, the EWC hosted 1,500 athletes and over 200 clubs, with a record-breaking $60m prize pool up for grabs across 22 tournaments and 21 titles. The ceremony concluded the biggest weekend in esports history, which also featured the 2024 Esports Awards and 2024 New Global Sport Conference.

  • Saudi Arabia launches Phase I of Riyadh Parking Project

    Phase I of the project is to create and manage over 24,000 public parking spaces in public and commercial streets, in addition to the management of more than 140,000 parking spaces in nearby residential neighborhoods. The phase will cover 12 areas distributed across the Al-Wurud, Ar Rahmaniyyah, West Olaya, Al-Murooj, King Fahd, and Al-Sulaimaniyah districts, in addition to four other areas in the southern neighborhoods of Riyadh.

  • All proposed Iranian ministers approved, but at what cost?

    All ministerial nominees of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian have been approved by the parliament—a first in 23 years. The vote of confidence has stirred controversy as Pezeshkian prior to the ballot told lawmakers that Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had pre-approved all picks. The assertion has sparked pushback from both critics and supporters of the political establishment.

  • Saudi Ambassador to Yemen meets UN Special Envoy

    Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al-Jaber met with UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg in Riyadh on Thursday. They discussed the latest developments with regard to the Yemeni crisis. Al-Jaber is also serving as the executive director of Yemen Comprehensive Humanitarian Operations and general supervisor of the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen.

  • Israel’s evacuation orders have displaced 90% of Gaza residents, UN says

    Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90% of its 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the top U.N. humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory says. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she and President Joe Biden are working to end the war in Gaza, where the International Rescue Committee says the polio virus has been circulating for the first time in a quarter-century because of the destruction of hospitals and water infrastructure, along with overcrowded living conditions.

  • Saudi: Tadawul witnesses 22 private deals worth $104.26mln on Thursday

    Investors in the Saudi stock market Tadawul witnessed execution of 22 private deals on Thursday, with a total value of SR391 million. Most of these deals were pertaining to the Saudi local banks. The highest executed value was in Alinma Bank with SR132 million distributed over six deals with about 4 million shares executed at a price of SR32.25.

  • Saudi Ministry unveils $26.65 million initiative to transform Najran into mining hub

    At a recent investor meeting in Najran, Minister Bandar Alkhorayef emphasized the ministry’s dedication to supporting investors and tackling sector challenges. The Industrial Fund, offering up to 75% financing, specifically targets support for the Najran region, recognized as a promising peripheral area.

  • Questions mount over six hostages’ fate in Gaza after IDF finds gunshot wounds

    Fury was palpable at the end of a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Thursday, as protesters demanded a deal to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and grieved this week’s news that the bodies of six captives had been retrieved. Their tragic fate has raised fears that more Israeli hostages will not be retrieved alive either, said one protester. “We need to bring back those that we know were alive,” Daniel told CNN. Continuing war as negotiations for a ceasefire-hostage deal falter “will only bring more coffins to them and to us,” the 48-year-old added.

  • Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces, men to grow beards

    Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said. The rules, promoted as in line with Islamic sharia law and to be enforced by the morality ministry, were based on a decree by the Taliban's supreme spiritual leader in 2022 and were now officially published as law, a Justice Ministry spokesman said.

  • Commentary: Newcastle’s Saudi future may not be what many imagined as pressure hits

    Newcastle will always have the memories of the night when they welcomed Paris Saint-Germain to St James’ Park – Kylian Mbappé, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ousmane Dembélé et al – and beat them 4-1, but the European adventures perhaps took the edge off league form and the result was a seventh-placed finish. There’s no shame in that: other than the previous season, it was their best finish since 2011-12. But expectations have been raised. One season’s exceptional achievement rapidly becomes the following season’s par.