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US-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Saudi Arabia to correct its image as it recorded the largest execution rate, with 48 executions so far this year. Most executions did not concern “serious crimes”. Large chunk of Read more
Paris Opera will help Saudi Arabia set up its own first opera and orchestra in a series of deals signed Monday between the two countries as the kingdom’s reformer; Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman undertakes a two-day visit to France. Read more
Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman said in an interview published Monday that Iran’s supreme leader is more dangerous than the former German ruler Adolf Hitler, in a rhetoric which confirms the cold war between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Read more
The US State Department Thursday said it approved the sale of thousands of TOW missiles, spare parts of military vehicles and the supply of helicopter maintenance services in a deal package put at nearly $1 billion. The announcement was made Read more
Saudi Arabia’s top international investment figure Prince al Waleed Bin Talal has told Bloomberg he is planning multi-billion investments that could associate US companies. In an interview with the New York-based media few weeks after his release from the anti-corruption Read more
Saudi Arabia will inaugurate several diplomatic missions in Iraq during Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman’s visit in April to mark full normalization of ties between the two countries, since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The Crown Prince’s visit is Read more
Individuals held in the months-long anti-graft campaign in Saudi Arabia were tortured as New York Times (NYT) reports the death of Maj Gen Ali al-Qahtani, an officer in the National Guard, while in custody. Early November, around 200 individuals including Read more
For its 2018 ranking of the World Richest Arabs, the US-based Forbes Magazine has not included Saudi billionaires in the wake of the November anti-graft purge, which saw dozens of Saudi business tycoons locked up for several months The 2018 Read more
Saudi Arabia will not bar Qatar from attending the annual summit of the Arab League to take place in the kingdom later this March, despite the eight-month old blockade imposed on the tiny Gulf country by a Saudi-led quartet, heir Read more
Saudi Arabia has tossed Turkey in the ‘triangle of evil’, which includes arch rival Iran and extremist Islamist groups as tensions between the two countries hype over Ankara’s support to Qatar in the diplomatic row opposing the tiny Gulf country Read more