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TurtleTree Labs, a biotech start-up based in Singapore has won the top prize of the Entrepreneurship World Cup 2020, organized in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Zawya reports. TurtleTree Labs bagged $500,000 for the win. The milk-startup is the world’s Read more
Israel has said it will stand in the way of potential sales of F-35 jets by the U.S to Qatar after the Gulf country submitted a formal purchase request, reports say. Intelligence minister Eli Cohen, Sunday told Army radio, the Read more
A top Emirati official has slammed Turkish President Erdogan’s remark that Turkish military base in Qatar has contributed to the stability of the Gulf region. “The Turkish military presence in the Arab Gulf is an emergency,” Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lauded the presence of Turkish forces in Qatar as a stability and peace factor in the Gulf region. “No one except for those making plans of chaos should be disturbed by Turkey and the Read more
Qatar Monday made bid to host the 2030 Asian Games a “national priority” despite competition from regional power house and former ally Saudi Arabia. The organizing committee of the Asian Games has validated the tiny Gulf country’s bid to host Read more
International commercial flights to and from Saudi Arabia will resume from January 1 next year on the condition that all coronavirus-related precautionary measures are followed, state-run news agency SPA has announced. “Completely lifting the restrictions on citizens leaving and returning Read more
Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has ordered Minister of Local Development, Mahmoud Sharawi to ensure that Syrians shop owners are not issued new shop license over conspiracy with Qatar and banned Muslim Brotherhood allegations, The New Arab reports. Sharawi, the London-based Read more
US President Donald Trump will host in Washington next week, September 15, the official signing of the normalization agreement between Israel and UAE. American sources at the White House who asked not be named, Tuesday told the Associated Press, that Read more
Saudi Arabia’s energy giant has discovered two oil and gas fields in the northern regions of the Gulf country. The oil field, according to Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, lies to the south east of the northern city Read more
Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Aramco has named a new CEO for its $500 venture capital and investments arm, Gulf Business reports citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The new appointee, Mahdi Aladel, former head of the company’s base oils Read more