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• Saudi soccer club Al Hilal aims for world record wins streak after $380M transfer spend on players

  Saudi Arabian soccer club Al Hilal will target a 28th straight win in competitive games on Tuesday that could set a world record for a top-tier team. Fueled by Serbia forward Aleksandar Mitrovic's goals during Neymar's long-term injury, Al Hilal aims for the record in a second-leg game in the Asian Champions League quarterfinals against domestic rival Al Ittihad.

• Fourth Saudi charity campaign to launch Friday

  The fourth Saudi annual national campaign for charitable activities is set to launch on Friday, the Saudi Press Agency reported early Tuesday. Following King Salman‘s approval, the campaign will continue until the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Donations will be received through the secured Ehsan platform at Ehsan.sa or by calling 8001247000. Last year’s campaign in its third edition received more than 10.4 million donations of over SR760 million ($202 million), benefiting more than 398,000 people.

• A new exciting KAFD Ramadan tent is coming to Riyadh 2024

  Looking to dine with skyscraper views? The new KAFD Ramadan tent has you sorted. KAFD is bringing a unique Ramadan tent experience from Tuesday March 12 to Thursday April 11 – and everyone’s welcome to join. What’s more, all your favourite Ramadan highlights – other than iftar and suhoor – will be taking place at the tent, too. Here’s everything you need to know about the KAFD Ramadan nights.

• From Sumosan To Raoul’s, These 9 Restaurants In Riyadh Are Closing Their Doors For Ramadan

  As we embark on this sacred journey, fasting becomes a physical act and a spiritual exercise. It’s a chance to cleanse both body and soul. But wait, what’s that? The sound of restaurants closing their doors? Fear not, fellow foodies, for this is no cause for alarm. It’s simply a culinary pause or closure by the Riyadh Restaurants, a temporary hiatus to honour the traditions of Ramadan.

• Introducing Attaché: MDLBeast’s music hub is coming to Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia, get ready to turn up the volume. The team behind MDLBeast Soundstorm have announced that they are transforming an equestrian club into a music venue. Located in Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh, Attaché is scheduled to open in 2024.  Attaché by MDLBeast will be located between rows of embassies in the Diplomatic Quarter. The neighbourhood is popular with the international community and off-duty diplomats. Expect a creative hub that brings together local and regional artists.

• US leads global oil production for sixth straight year- EIA

  U.S. crude oil production lead global oil production for a sixth straight year, with a record breaking average production of 12.9 million barrels per day (bpd), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a release on Monday. In December, U.S. crude oil production hit a new monthly record high of over 13.3 million bpd, the agency said. "The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row," the EIA added. The EIA says it is unlikely that the record will be broken by another country in the near term.

• How Tony Douglas Is Building Riyadh Air To Be A Better Airline

  Despite many years in aviation and a high profile in the sector, Tony Douglas has never launched an airline before. While he did great things at Etihad, his remit there was very much to come in and deliver transformation in five years, which he successfully achieved. But the proposition of starting an airline from scratch, with no legacy hangovers, presented the perfect opportunity for the next step in his career.

• US-based CarbonCapture raises $80 mln from Saudi Aramco, others

  Los Angeles-based CarbonCapture, which aims to build machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the air to fight climate change, said it had raised $80 million from investors that include Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco (2223.SE), opens new tab. The money raised in CarbonCapture's latest major funding round represents one of the largest injections of private capital into direct air capture (DAC) – a technology that has yet to be proven at scale - over the last five years, according industry tracker PitchBook. "This is exactly what has to happen - this alignment with large industrial partners who have the capacity, the access to capital, the skills to actually scale DAC to a meaningful level," CarbonCapture CEO Adrian Corless said in an interview with Reuters.

• Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr exit Asian Champions League with shootout loss to Al-Ain

  Cristiano Ronaldo's Al-Nassr crashed out of the Asian Champions League in the quarter-finals after the Saudi Pro League side lost 3-1 on penalties to Al-Ain in a pulsating game on Monday. Al-Nassr overturned a 1-0 first leg deficit to win 4-3 on Monday but with the contest ending 4-4 on aggregate, the players headed into a shootout from which Al-Ain prevailed. Al-Nassr's foreign imports Miroslav Brozovic, Alex Telles and Otavio all failed to score from the spot as the side from the United Arab Emirates advanced to the semi-finals, where they will face either Al-Hilal or Al-Ittihad -- both from Saudi Arabia -- next month.

• US delegation leaves Saudi Arabia early over kippah row

  A US delegation on religious freedom said Monday it cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering, or kippah. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said its delegation was near Riyadh visiting Diriyah, a historic town and Unesco world heritage site, when the commission’s chair, the Orthodox rabbi Abraham Cooper, “refused their requests that he remove his religious head covering”. Cooper said in a statement: “No one should be denied access to a heritage site, especially one intended to highlight unity and progress, simply for existing as a Jew.”

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