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The Saudi Defense Ministry has lambasted Israeli media that the Chief of Staff of the Saudi army held talks with his Israeli counterpart during a top military conference in the U.S. early this week. A source who did not want Read more
Manama-based Arcapita Group has pumped money into NuYu, a Saudi leading chain of women-only boutique gyms, amid rising of the sector following recent reforms in Saudi Arabia in favor of women. The investment, estimated at $67 million, will help multiply Read more
A horde of leaders of multinational media and giant companies have expressed their intentions to stay away from a major investment conference to be held in Saudi Arabia later this month. The decision comes following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Read more
Former US energy secretary under President Barack Obama, Ernest Moniz, has suspended his participation on the board of advisors of the Saudi futuristic city NEOM, tying his return to more evidences on the fate of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read more
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who fled the country last year after emerging as a critic of the government, has gone missing after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, for paperwork on Tuesday. Khashoggi, according to his Turkish fiancée Read more
Saudi forces Sunday said they intercepted and destroyed two boats filled with explosives remotely controlled by Yemen Houthi rebels who were planning to attack Jazan city port. The navy destroyed the boats, state-owned news agency SPA reported. Colonel Turki Al-Malki, Read more
Germany had approved export to Saudi Arabia of weapons worth $295 million, in violation of the German government’s own rules not to supply arms to parties involved “directly” in the Yemen conflict. A total of 87 export permits were approved Read more
Saudi Crown Mohamed bin Salman (MbS) held talks on Sunday with regional neighbor on many issues including oil supplies and Kuwaiti mediation effort to resolve Saudi Arabia’s conflict with Qatar, Reuters reports. MbS met with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Read more
The Saudi kingdom has scrapped plan to build a solar farm with Japan’s SoftBank Group for a total investment of $200 billion, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported. The project announced in March has short-lived. WSJ, citing Saudi official Read more
Saudi Arabia Wednesday requested that Canada presented to the kingdom ‘apology’ before ending the diplomatic dispute, which broke out last month. This came after Canada said Tuesday it wants to thaw ties with Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the Read more