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  • Israel’s Cabinet ratifies Abraham Accords

    Shortly before the Cabinet approved the normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke over the phone and agreed to meet "soon."

  • ‘A slap in the face’: 9/11 families say US-Sudan deal would torpedo two-decade lawsuit

    In exchange for taking Sudan off the terror list — where it has sat since 1993 and remains alongside Iran, North Korea, and Syria — the State Department is requiring that Khartoum pay $335 million toward a court settlement reached in May with the victims of al-Qaeda’s embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

  • Perspective: On peace with Israel, Saudi Arabia media offers clues to kingdom’s thinking

    The new stance being advanced in the Saudi media is significant not just for what it signals about the kingdom’s position. In recent years, the Saudi media has become increasingly influential across the wider Arab world.

  • U.N. access to decaying Yemen tanker could take weeks, say sources

    A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating tanker off Yemen’s shore that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil in the Red Sea, two U.N. sources told Reuters. The United Nations has warned that the Safer, stranded since 2015, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster near Alaska, but access to the vessel has been complicated by the war in Yemen.

  • IMF revises down economic forecasts for most Gulf countries

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised down on Tuesday its 2020 real gross domestic product (GDP) projections for most Gulf countries, as it warned the economic outlook was worsening for many emerging markets amid the coronavirus crisis. The IMF forecast a 2020 global contraction of 4.4% in its latest World Economic Outlook, an improvement over a 5.2% contraction predicted in June, but said it was still the worst economic crisis since the 1930s Great Depression.

  • Saudi Arabia presides over G-20 interfaith forum

    Faisal bin Muaammar, who heads the Saudi-funded International Dialogue Center organizing the five-day forum, told The Associated Press the purpose of the event is to enhance relationships among different faiths. “We are talking about a relationship between religions, between Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus. The dialogue has no political agenda at all, or a political direction in terms of political conversations or negotiations,” he said.

  • Secretary Pompeo to Launch U.S.-Saudi Arabia Strategic Dialogue

    Secretary Michael R. Pompeo will welcome Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 14 for the inaugural U.S.-Saudi Strategic Dialogue. The dialogue will focus on our shared commitments to the furthering of regional security and prosperity, economic development, and the people-to-people exchanges that have underpinned our bilateral relationship since the seminal meeting between President Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz aboard the USS Quincy 75 years ago.

  • Football Saudi Arabian league set to kick-off behind closed doors

    The Saudi Arabian Football Federation announced that the Mohammed Bin Salman league competition will commence on 17 October while the first division competition is scheduled to get underway on 20 October.

  • Saudi Arabia hosts G20 talks on virus recovery, debt relief

    The virtual talks, hosted by current G20 president Saudi Arabia, come a day after the International Monetary Fund warned that global GDP would contract 4.4 percent in 2020 and the damage inflicted by the pandemic would be felt for years.

  • Saudi Telecom opens up to Rakuten

    “We are confident this [agreement] will bring tangible results in terms of developing a new advanced technology strategy and accelerating the early deployment of novel and sophisticated services,” said STC chief executive Nasser S. Al Nasser.