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Non-oil private business activity in Saudi Arabia grew at the fastest pace in over three years last month, buoyed by strong expansions in new orders and employment, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia is waging a "systematic and ruthless campaign of persecution" against peaceful activists in order to silence criticism of the state in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, Amnesty International said Friday.
The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said it had obtained commercially available satellite imagery on which six buildings at Parchin appeared damaged or destroyed.
The Cellular Competition Intensity Index results for 2014 revealed that Saudi Arabia tops the score - as the most competitive Arab market - with a 75.86 mark. This is followed by Jordan (73.16 ), Palestine (71.28 ), Iraq (66.65 ), Egypt (63.80 ), Bahrain (62.17 ), Tunisia (60.33 ), Morocco (60.13), Oman (59.43 ), Algeria (58.44 ), Kuwait (56.68 ), Sudan (56.49 ), Yemen (56.01 ), Mauritania (55.97), Qatar (49.12 ), UAE (48.76 ), Lebanon (40.76 ), Syria (34.45 ) and Libya (31.12 ).
Business activity in Egypt expanded at a near-record pace in September, a survey showed on Tuesday, with a nascent economic recovery encouraging companies to hire for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years.
Turks have always grasped better than most that modernity is something of a con game. Through hard experience -- spending decades, say, building what they thought were clean, cutting-edge, concrete apartment blocks only to be told by Europeans that a more modern government would have focused on historic preservation -- Turkish leaders discovered that the best thing about being a modern country is having the money and strength to decide what it means to be modern.
For everyone else, the listing is an example of the large opportunities that will soon be available in a fast-growing, relatively well-regulated emerging market that is more stable than most. Saudi Arabia plans to allow direct investment by foreign financial institutions by the end of the first half of 2015, using a framework similar to China’s quota-based system for international investors. With a combined capitalisation worth more than Russia’s main index and equivalent to 80 percent of Brazil’s Bovespa, Saudi Arabia is too big to ignore.
The United States may currently be focused on the Islamic State, but Turkey is looking years ahead at the mess that will likely remain. This is why Turkey is placing conditions on its involvement in the battle against the Islamic State: It is trying to convince the United States and its Sunni Arab coalition partners that it will inevitably be the power administering this region. Therefore, according to Ankara, all players must conform to its priorities, beginning with replacing Syria's Iran-backed Alawite government with a Sunni administration that will look first to Ankara for guidance.
Taking Kobane, besieged for three weeks, would give IS control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border. More than 160,000 Syrians, mainly Kurds, have fled the town. Earlier a local official in Kobane, Idriss Nassan, told the BBC that the town would "certainly fall soon"
"There are 70,000 sheikhs and preachers in Saudi Arabia who have an incredible amount of influence on people. That's why we are concentrating our efforts to fight these deviant thoughts, especially during haj," he said. The campaign also includes the distribution of religious material representing what the government believes to be more moderate views of Islam, as well as broadcasting more religious programmes on radio and television to spread these views.
