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Saudi Arabia is reportedly seeking to raise $2.7 billion (10bn riyals) to proceed with the development of its ambitious smart megacity project, Neom, according to Bloomberg. The report cites...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today embarked on a visit to Saudi Arabia to enhance relations with the Gulf kingdom. Erdogan will be welcomed by Saudi King Salman Bin...
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Reforms of the curriculum and school textbooks in use in Saudi Arabia have been praised by the political correspondent of Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Itamar Eichner described as "progress"...
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Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said yesterday that since 2021, the kingdom has become the largest oil supplier to Japan, fulfilling 40 per cent of its total...
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Sudanese representatives have arrived in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah to resume talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudanese government sources told Reuters on Saturday, after three months of...
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The Secretary General of the Makkah-based NGO Muslim World League (MWL), Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa has paid a visit to a Hindu temple in New Delhi as...
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The United Kingdom has invited Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for an official visit to the country, in the latest move by Western states to bring the...
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Once again, the world has witnessed the escalation of violence, bombing, destruction and deaths perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories. This time it...
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Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is reported to have reached a "verbal agreement" to join Saudi Arabia's Al-Ettifaq Club. In an "unpleasant surprise" for Liverpool fans, Henderson is believed to...
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It's been quite a busy year for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in terms of diplomatic engagement. In February he made an official state visit to China, where 20 agreements...
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At least 87 Sudanese civilians were buried in a mass grave in Sudan's West Darfur state, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. "The...
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A summit of the neighbours of conflict-torn Sudan's began in Egypt's capital, Cairo, on Thursday to help settle the ongoing Sudanese crisis that erupted in mid-April, Anadolu Agency reports....
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Germany will not deliver Eurofighter combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the near future, German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said on Wednesday, after a newspaper quoted a government document as...
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Iran's Foreign Ministry will follow up on the Durra gas field known as Arash in Iran, the country's Oil Minister, Javad Owji, said on Wednesday according to semi-official Tasnim...
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Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Saudi Arabia next week will cement bilateral relations, the Saudi Minister for Municipal Affairs and Housing said on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Joe Biden's special envoy for energy, Amos Hochstein, on Tuesday, his office revealed in a brief statement. The two discussed "regional...
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Pakistan has received $2 billion in financial assistance from Saudi Arabia, days after Islamabad and the IMF reached a $3 billion stand-by agreement, the country's Finance Minister announced on...
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Former professional footballer and former head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, Antonio Conte, arrived in Morocco to spend his summer vacation with his family this week. Conte,...
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Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, met with his French counterpart, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, in Riyadh on 8 July, Gulf Business reports. According to the report, the two...
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Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have "exclusive rights" in the Durra gas field in the Arabian Gulf, Kuwait Oil Minister, Saad Al Barrak, said on Sunday, and he called on...
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Israel's national anthem has been heard in Saudi Arabia during FIFA's gaming World Cup. The two countries don't have formal diplomatic relations and this is the first time the Israeli flag and anthem have been raised in the Gulf state
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UN experts have urged the Saudi authorities to release two women who were imprisoned because of tweets they posted. Salma Al-Shehab and Noura Al-Qahtani, who were sentenced to prison...
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The recent decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend existing crude oil supply cuts did not have the expected effect on prices, but analysts said the limited increase...
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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Friday thanked Saudi Arabia for hosting the Hajj pilgrimage for families of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners. "We express our thanks and appreciation...
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Israel and the US have been working on a secret plan to build a trade land bridge connecting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel, Israel's...
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The conversation about climate change needs to shift from simply reducing carbon emissions to ensuring developing nations can take part in a diversified green economy in the Middle East...
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, met the Sudanese Foreign Minister for the first time since diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed seven years ago, the official IRNA...
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Several Arab countries have welcomed the elevation of diplomatic relations between Turkiye and Egypt for the first time in a decade, Anadolu Agency reports. On Tuesday, Ankara and Cairo...
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Saudi Arabia and Kuwait exclusively own natural wealth, including Durra gas field, in the Gulf's maritime "Divided Area", Saudi state news agency, SPA, said on Tuesday citing the Foreign Ministry. The Kingdom also...
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Roberto Firmino has left Liverpool to join Saudi side Al-Ahli, the English Premier League team announced yesterday. The Brazilian attacker agreed to a three-year deal with Al-Ahli, after his...
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Public fury is growing in the Arab world over one of Israel's biggest military operations in the Occupied West Bank in years, yet Arab states which normalised ties with...
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Fierce battles broke out on Tuesday across Omdurman, the western part of Sudan's wider capital, as the Army tried cut off supply routes used by its paramilitary rivals to...