Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says oil firm Aramco and petrochemical firm SABIC will lead investments of five trillion riyals ($1.3 trillion) by the country’s private sector by 2030 under an economic diversification programme. The move, [ More … ]
Task force dealing with Khashoggi fallout working on ‘game-changing’ photo with Israeli PM that would cast prince as peacemaker, sources say Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is reported to be “seriously considering” setting up [ More … ]
A bipartisan group of senior senators said on Tuesday that a classified briefing by the C.I.A. director had only solidified their belief that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, ordered the killing [ More … ]
Jeremy Hunt will attempt to encourage Saudi authorities to cooperate with Turkish investigation The UK foreign secretary is flying to Saudi Arabia to request that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, cooperates more fully [ More … ]
Prince Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz returns to Riyadh with UK and US security guarantees and a brief to cut the crown prince down to size Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, [ More … ]
Canadian officials say Justin Trudeau’s government is reaching out to the UAE and UK to defuse tensions, according to Reuters Canada plans to seek help from the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom to defuse [ More … ]
Sheikh Safar al-Hawali had been a prominent critic of American influence in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has detained a prominent Islamic scholar, activists said Thursday, in a widening crackdown on dissent in the ultra-conservative kingdom, [ More … ]
Saudi crown prince says Palestine is not a priority for his country, according to reports from Israeli news channel Mohammed bin Salman said the Palestinian leadership should accept whatever peace terms are offered by the [ More … ]
“Only Death” Will Stop Me From Ruling the kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman said in his first interview with an American television network, Mohammed bin Salman shared his thoughts on Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, his [ More … ]
Riyadh’s new migrant rules have pushed tens of thousands of Yemenis out of jobs and back to a country on the brink, with disastrous results Saudi Arabia has been accused of forcing tens of thousands [ More … ]
The absence of a US ambassador in Riyadh comes as Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington is being finalised President Donald Trump has yet to appoint an ambassador to Saudi Arabia, leaving diplomatic relations in [ More … ]
The Saudi culture ministry said the first cinemas would open next March Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a lifting of the kingdom’s decades-long ban on public cinemas. The culture ministry announced that “commercial cinemas will be [ More … ]
Lebanese PM Saad al-Hariri had been in Riyadh since announcing his resignation there on 4 November Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Paris on Saturday [ More … ]
If Israel itself actually had to do all the ugly deeds it wants done in the region, the world would see it with blinding clarity for the pariah state that it truly is, said Foreign [ More … ]
Lebanese prime minister said that while he would be returning to Lebanon, his family would be remaining in the kingdom Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Twitter that he would be returning from Saudi [ More … ]
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