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Climate Summit - LimaLima climate change talks reach global warming agreement
International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, agreed at United Nations talks on Sunday, was hailed as an important first step towards a climate change deal due to be finalised in Paris next year. The proposals call on countries to reveal how they will cut carbon pollution, ideally by March next year.
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Iran NegotiationsNetanyahu-Mossad Split Divides U.S. Congress on Iran Sanctions
The Israeli view shared with Corker and other senators also mirrors the assessment from the U.S. intelligence community. “We’ve had a standing assessment on this,” one senior administration official told us. “We haven’t run the new Kirk-Menendez bill through the process, but the point is that any bill that triggers sanctions would collapse the talks. That’s what the assessment is.” Another intelligence official said that the Israelis had come to the same conclusion.
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Foreign LaborSaudi to lift ban on Bangladeshi labour
Saudi Arabia is to lift a seven year ban that prohibits Bangladeshi labourers from entering and working in the country.
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Renewable EnergySaudi Arabia Delays $109 Billion Solar Plant by 8 Years
Part of the delay appeared to be linked to the kingdom’s desire to build its own renewable manufacturing business with money from the program. Currently, most solar panels are made inChina, and companies such as General Electric Co. in the U.S., Siemens AG of Germany andVestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) of Denmark make wind turbines.
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Af-Pak CooperationTaliban militants arrested over attack on Pakistan school that left 130 dead
Some of the Taliban militants behind last month’s massacre of more than 130 schoolboys in Pakistan have been arrested inside Afghanistan, in the latest sign of sharply improved counter-terror cooperation between the two countries.
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Muslims in EuropeOpinion: Will This Time Be Different?
The good news is that more than 13 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, anti-Muslim violence remains a rare phenomenon in Western democracies. In the United States, for example, the FBI tallied 165 anti-Muslim hate-crime offenses in 2013, or about one-tenth the number of offenses targeting gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people. Only about one-third of anti-Muslim crimes involved violent attacks on people. Comparable statistics for Europe are more difficult to come by. (In 2014, the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League published a sharp critique of the deficiencies of hate-crime record-keeping in European countries.)
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Saudi-YemenIs Yemen falling out of Saudi’s grasp?
Besides the traditional dangers that Saudi security has been facing across its border with Yemen for decades, such as weapon and drug smuggling and even infiltration and people smuggling, the sharp rise of the Houthis’ Ansar Allah militia is a new danger threatening southern regions of Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi-IraqOpinion: Can relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia improve?
Though foreign missions in the Iraqi capital face the danger of attack, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to send a technical team to choose a new location for its embassy in Iraq, which closed its doors 24 years ago. The visit aims to break the ice in a relationship that has been frosty for the past 10 years. Saudi Arabia has also decided to open a consulate in the Kurdistan region, finally implementing a decision which had previously been delayed due to political and security tensions.
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BahrainMore violent clashes in Bahrain following extended detention of opposition leader
Demonstrators and security forces have clashed once again in Bahrain after the authorities extended the detention of the country’s main Shiite opposition leader by one week. Tear gas rounds were fired as protesters hurled rocks and iron rods at police.
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Saudi SWFSaudi finance minister says no need to create sovereign wealth fund
Saudi Arabia's finance minister said there was no need for the kingdom to create a sovereign wealth fund to manage its oil wealth, rebuffing suggestions by prominent officials and businessmen.
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