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  • HRS to open first hydrogen station in Saudi Arabia

    Hydrogen Refueling Solutions (HRS), European designer and manufacturer of hydrogen refueling stations, has announced the first order of a hydrogen station outside of Europe, from a Saudi Arabian developer. The site was ordered by a local national energy company and is set to supply a planned fleet of 20 buses and light vehicles, with construction starting in July. As its first station to be sold outside Europe, this marks a decisive step in HRS's strategy of international development.

  • Saudi Wants Family Offices to Help Build Americas Investment

    That figure jumped sevenfold to $4 billion through 2023, and should keep growing, said Abdulrahman Bakir, managing director of the Americas for the Saudi Investment Ministry. Key to increasing the two-way flows of money between Brazil and Saudi Arabia — as well as with the rest of Latin America — is connecting institutional investors, private companies and especially family offices, which are multiplying globally and becoming a bigger source of capital, Bakir said.

  • Hajj comes to an end officially as pilgrims leave Mina after 4th day’s stoning

    Pilgrims who stayed back in Mina on Tuesday night to perform the stoning ritual for the fourth consecutive day, threw pebbles at three Jamarat on Wednesday afternoon. Pilgrims hurled seven pebbles each, first at Jamarat Al-Sugra, then at Jamarat Al-Wusta, and finally at Jamarat Al-Aqaba in a calm and peaceful atmosphere inside the sprawling Jamarat Complex manned by a contingent of security forces, health workers and volunteers.

  • Saudi Arabia Inaugurates its Pavilion at Beijing International Book Fair

    The Saudi delegation, led by the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, includes representatives from various cultural entities, such as the Heritage Commission, the Culinary Arts Commission, the Ministry of Investment, the King Abdulaziz Foundation, the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language, the King Abdulaziz Public Library, and the Saudi Publishers Association.

  • Saudi Arabia: footballer Paul Pogba performs Hajj

    French footballer Paul Pogba has performed the Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia, accompanied by his wife, Bolivian model Maria Zulay Salaues, who posted pictures of the couple on Instagram “A very emotional and magical place,” wrote Salaues. “Eid Mubarak to all my brothers and sisters, and we ask God to bless us with peace and tranquillity.”

  • The US does security and China does the economy: another narrative that needs to go

    I know it’s counter-intuitive because we all see stories about China’s significance as an economic actor and this is always paired with the idea that the US only thinks about geopolitical competition. And of course I think that’s a misperception that has taken root in so many of the narratives about China in the Middle East. But if I were a US official working in the region, I’d be pushing back on this every chance I got.

  • Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says

    Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels' share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year, the industry's Statistical Review of World Energy report said on Thursday. Growing demand for fossil fuel despite the scaling up of renewables could be a sticking point for the transition to lower carbon energy as global temperature increases reach 1.5C (2.7F), the threshold beyond which scientists say impacts such as temperature rise, drought and flooding will become more extreme.

  • Climate change threat hangs over haj pilgrimage as hundreds perish in heat

    Nearly 2 million Muslims will reach the end of the haj pilgrimage this week, but extreme heat has proved fatal for hundreds who began the journey last Friday to the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. At least 562 people have died during the haj, according to a Reuters tally based on foreign ministry statements and sources. Egypt alone has registered 307 deaths and another 118 missing, medical and security sources told Reuters, as temperatures at times soared past 51 degrees Celsius (124 Fahrenheit).

  • Sudan’s cemeteries swell with fresh graves as hunger and disease spread

    Reuters identified 14 graveyards that are expanding fast in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. The analysis shows how starvation and disease are taking a mounting toll as combatants block food and medical aid. The cemeteries are “canaries in the coal mine” of a looming famine.

  • A US aircraft carrier and its crew have fought Houthi attacks for months. How long can it last?

    At the Pentagon, leaders are wrestling with what has become a thorny but familiar debate. Do they bow to Navy pressure to bring the Eisenhower and the other three warships in its strike group home or heed U.S. Central Command’s plea to keep them there longer? And if they bring them home — what can replace them?