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  • Global Oil Markets
    Oil prices and Saudi diplomacy: Kemp

    Conspiracy theories are neither necessary nor helpful in trying to understand recent events in the oil market. Not necessary, because they add nothing to explanations for why prices have fallen. And not helpful, because they imply Saudi Arabia could rationally have pursued a different policy.

  • Energy Policy
    Natural Gas: Abundance of Supply and Debate

    Natural gas is the Rorschach test of energy policy. Depending on one’s point of view, it can be either an essential tool for meeting the challenge of climate change or another dirty fossil fuel that will speed the planet down the path to calamitous warming.

  • Healthcare
    Officials: Shortage of qualified Saudi doctors ails health sector

    With the implementation of various expansion projects in the health sector, the Ministry of Health’s 2012-2013 report shows that there is a shortage of qualified Saudi doctors, nurses and other medical and health staff, Makkah daily reported on Saturday. The ministry blamed the shortage on the insufficient number of health and medical graduates, employment of foreigners over Saudis due to their qualifications and an insufficient number of training workshops.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    France, Kahwagi sign off on Saudi grant for Lebanese Army

    Army commander Jean Kahwaji and a French defense official signed Monday the final part of the French-Saudi deal to support the Lebanese military, according to France’s Foreign Ministry Tuesday.

  • Capital Markets
    Saudi Shares Advance in First Trading Day After King’s Death

    “The succession plan is clear, things do look politically stable at the moment in Saudi and there’s no panic in the market,” Nabil Rantisi, managing director of brokerage at Mena Corp. Financial Services, said by phone from Amman, Jordan. “Yesterday’s holiday, and the fact that he passed away on Friday, gave investors time to digest the news. The market is attractive, especially as Saudi Arabia is expected to open to foreigners in the second quarter.”

  • Pakistan
    Severe fuel shortage enrages Pakistanis, spurs criticism of Sharif’s government

    As much of the world enjoys the lowest fuel prices in years, Pakistan has been hit with a gasoline shortage that has residents enraged at what they see as government incompetence.

  • U.S. - Saudi
    US senators in Saudi, Qatar for talks on Syrian rebels

    A message on the official Twitter feed for McCain, R-Arizona, said the U.S. delegation met with the commander of Saudi Arabia's training and equipment program and with Ahmed al-Jarba, whom it identified as the president of the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition. Al-Jarba stepped down as SNC president in July 2014. The current SNC president is Khaled Khoja. The reason for the discrepancy in McCain's tweet was not immediately clear.

  • Real Estate
    Saudi Housing Minister Says Aiming To Tax Undeveloped Land

    Saudi Arabia’s housing ministry is moving to tax undeveloped land, official media quoted the housing minister as saying, in a policy that could help to end a shortage of homes and spur economic growth. Much urban land in the kingdom is owned by wealthy individuals or companies who prefer holding it as a store of value, or trading it for speculative profits, to the process of developing it. The government has been considering for years whether to use taxes to push owners into developing or selling such land; last September the issue was referred to the Supreme Economic Council, a top policy body chaired by King Abdullah.

  • Saudi Governance
    The True Nature of the Saudi Succession “Crisis”

    Like every nation in the world, the Kingdom faces major internal and outside challenges, has many areas where its future is unpredictable, and always has some form of disastrous worst case as a possible scenario. As succession crises go, however, the choice of next Saudi king is likely to be a non-crisis. The Kingdom has come a long way since the struggle that brought Ibn Saud to power. It is now a modern state by most standards, and its royal politics – while both interesting and uncertain – seem unlikely to be a serious source of instability or lead to serious shifts in its strategic role and partnership with the United States.

  • Paris Attack
    Charlie Hebdo: Gun attack on French magazine kills 12

    Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack. Three masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. The gunmen shouted "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad", witnesses say.