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  • Saudi Executions
    Amnesty slams Saudi Arabia over 2015 executions spike

    Saudi Arabia is well on track to far surpass its previous annual execution records, Amnesty International has warned. The human rights group issued a statement after three more men were put to death this week, bringing the total number of executions in the country to 44 so far this year.

  • Inflation in Saudi Arabia
    Saudi inflation at lowest level in nine years

    Saudi inflation last month dropped to its lowest level in nine years, driven by the strengthening riyal and a global dip in food prices, according to data from the kingdom’s Central Department of Statistics.

  • Saudi Aramco
    Saudi Aramco nears $10 bln loan deal at tight pricing

    Saudi Aramco, the kingdom's state oil giant, is close to completing a $10 billion tightly-priced loan, banking sources said on Thursday, part of which could be used to back the purchase of a stake in German synthetic rubber firm Lanxess.

  • Saudi Stock Market
    Tadawul: Housing hopes boost Saudi; Egypt rises before investment summit

    Stronger oil and hopes that the government will speed up its housing programme lifted Saudi Arabia's stock market to a four-month high on Thursday, while Egypt rebounded ahead of a long-awaited conference to attract investment. Most Gulf markets were soft.

  • Saudi
    Saudi push to boost Egyptian economy

    World leaders have started arriving in Sharm El-Sheikh to attend a major economic conference that opens on Friday to mobilize $12 billion in foreign investment to jump-start Egypt’s battered economy.

  • Saudi-Pakistan
    Why Saudi Arabia Needs Pakistan

    As the likelihood of a rapprochement between Iran and the West grows, Saudi Arabia is quietly shoring up its relationship with Pakistan.

  • Iran Negotiations
    Europeans worry Senate letter gives Iran edge in nuclear talks

    Congressional interference could give Iran leverage to demand more upfront sanctions relief or resist demands for additional reductions in its nuclear capacity. Iran is also seeking speedy action on a UN Security Council resolution that would give a deal the force of international law and thus make it harder for the Obama administration’s successor to disavow it.

  • Saudi Oil
    Saudi Arabia and Oil: What You Need to Know

    Saudi Aramco, has no royalties to pay out, low exploration costs, and access to a wide variety of crudes, from light sweet to heavy sour. They handle their own transportation, processing and refining which means profits are assessed over the whole enterprise, not each point in the chain. Labor costs and transportation costs within the Kingdom are inexpensive, and the land under which the oil fields sit is not really in competition for other resources.

  • Morocco
    Morocco’s Gradual Political and Economic Transition

    There are three main, interrelated factors that allowed Morocco to avoid the dramatic political and economic fallout of the Arab Spring.

  • Extremism
    There Is No Global Jihadist ‘Movement’

    What’s sometimes referred to as the global jihadist “movement” is actually extremely fractured. It’s united by a general set of shared ideological beliefs, but divided organizationally and sometimes doctrinally. Whether to fight the “near enemy” (local regimes) or the “far enemy” (such as the United States and the West), for example, has been contentious since the 1990s, when Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States.