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  • Saudi Arabia’s Athir raises new investment round

    Athir, a Saudi-based health tech company, has announced the successful closure of its first investment funding round. The round saw participation from Wa’ed Ventures, SHARE Investment Co., and RZM Investment. The “Athir HIS” system is the first fully integrated Saudi system for healthcare facilities, applied in both public and private sectors. This system integrates with various platforms like Absher, Sehhaty, Wasfaty, in addition to hospital healthcare systems and medical insurance management systems.

  • Defense secretary orders submarine to Middle East

    US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East and accelerated the arrival of a carrier strike group to the region ahead of an anticipated Iranian attack against Israel, the Pentagon said in a statement Sunday evening. The USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles, was operating in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, according to the Navy, having just completed training near Italy.

  • Chinese Firms Deliver Massive Offshore Oil, Gas Rig to Saudi Aramco

    A ultra-large offshore oil and gas collection and transportation platform, which is the biggest of its kind built by Chinese companies for a foreign client, was successfully handed over to Saudi Arabian oil major Saudi Aramco today, marking a new chapter for the country’s giant offshore oil and gas platform construction industry.

  • Israel keeps up strikes in Gaza as fears of wider war grow

    Israeli forces pressed on with operations near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday amid an international push for a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and prevent a slide into a wider regional conflict with Iran and its proxies. Palestinian medics said Israeli military strikes on Khan Younis on Monday killed at least 18 people and wounded several. Meanwhile more families and displaced persons streamed out of areas threatened by new evacuation orders telling people to clear the area.

  • Sudan peace talks moving forward, says US envoy

    Talks to end Sudan's 16-month war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will move forward this week, the U.S.'s special envoy said, despite little sign from either party that they seek a peaceful resolution. The Sudanese army has all but rejected the invitation, while the RSF has continued its costly offensives in parts of the country, despite welcoming the U.S. and Saudi initiative.

  • Schindler wins The Avenues – Riyadh project, Saudi Arabia

    Schindler Olayan will provide a total of 293 elevators, escalators, and moving walks to the new multi-purpose project The Avenues – Riyadh in the Saudi Arabian capital, which will cover an area of over 1.8 million square meters. Situated in a prime location in the north of Riyadh, The Avenues – Riyadh will, once completed, be home to the largest commercial mall in the Middle East – which alone will cover an area of 388,000 square meters – and comprise five multi-purpose towers that will house hotels, residential apartments, and offices.

  • Saudi Crown Prince, South African President Discuss Bilateral Ties

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud held a phone call on Monday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to congratulate him for being re-elected, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The two sides also discussed relations and ways to strengthen and develop them in various fields, SPA said. They also reviewed a number of topics of mutual interest, it added.

  • US Lifts Ban on Offensive Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia

    Since the truce, “there has not been a single Saudi airstrike into Yemen and cross-border fire from Yemen into Saudi Arabia has largely stopped,” Patel said. “The Saudis since that time have met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours,” Patel said.

  • OPEC sees the world needing a little less oil than it thought

    Economic uncertainty in China is having a crude effect on the global energy outlook. OPEC’s latest monthly oil market report says that it now expects the world to use up 2.1 million barrels of oil a day more than it did last year, instead of the 2.2 million barrels per day it had forecasted.

  • French embrace of Moroccan autonomy plan underscores broader shift on Western Sahara dispute

    After decades of negotiating, under the aegis of the UN, a range of possible solutions to the territorial dispute — which pits Morocco against the Polisario Front, a liberation movement supported by Algeria — Morocco began pushing its own preferred outcome. Rabat’s plan for autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty surfaced in 2007, and absent other viable avenues to ensure self-determination, the autonomy plan had garnered support but not flat-out endorsement from the United States and Europe.