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  • Saudi Arabia’s AlUla exhibition at the Forbidden City

    The exhibition "AlUla, Wonder of Arabia" has kicked off at the Palace Museum in Beijing recently. AlUla is located in the northwestern Saudi Arabia, 1,100 kilometers away from the capital Riyadh. It boasts rich natural and cultural heritage, including the Hegra archaeological site, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Let's visit the exhibition with Xinhua reporter Sandra Ahmed!

  • Saudi’s Seven and Formula E to open karting attractions

    Saudi Entertainment Ventures (Seven) has announced its latest partnership, this time with Formula E to launch indoor karting attractions in the kingdom. The Formula E venues will be located in four of Seven’s entertainment destinations across Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Abha. Each family-friendly attraction will offer adult karts, junior karts, and dual karts, as well as 400-metre-long tracks

  • Real Madrid Target Mbappe Still Wanted By Saudi Arabia Confirms Prince

    Saudi Arabia is still interested in signing Paris Saint-Germain forward and Real Madrid transfer target Kylian Mbappe, as confirmed by a member of its royal family Prince Abdullah Saad Abdulaziz Al Saud to Carre on YouTube. Mbappe becomes a free agent on June 30, and is expected to join Los Blancos if not extending his contract at the Parc des Princes. The Frenchman was involved in a 2023 tug-of-war with his current Qatari-owned club, which looked to sell him after he sent a letter explaining his intention not to agree fresh terms.

  • The best things to experience in Saudi Arabia according to the people who know it

    Closed to tourists until recently, Saudi Arabia is still an unknown quantity for many would-be travelers. That’s changing fast. The country reported a 56% growth in international arrivals in 2023 from 2019 pre-pandemic levels, according to the UNWTO. So, where are some of the best places in this emerging tourism destination to go?

  • Acciona to bid for Line 7 of Riyadh metro together with Siemens, Samsung and Alayuni, and against FCC and its consortium

    Acciona and FCC are part of two consortiums formed to bid for the construction of the new Line 7 of the Riyadh metro in Saudi Arabia, according to sources consulted by the newspaper Expansión. Specifically, Acciona has formed an alliance with Siemens, Samsung and Alayuni. In addition, FCC, as part of the consortium that won in 2013 one of the lots to design and build the first lines of the subway, has been invited to participate in the extension of Line 2. Overall, the investment needed to build the two rail projects amounts to more than €10 billion in the capital investment (capex) phase alone, according to expert estimates, as the authorities have not yet published a baseline budget.

  • U.S. Secretly Alerted Iran Ahead of Islamic State Terrorist Attack

    The U.S. secretly warned Iran that Islamic State was preparing to carry out the terrorist attack early this month that killed more than 80 Iranians in a pair of coordinated suicide bombings, U.S. officials said.

    The confidential alert came after the U.S. acquired intelligence that Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, ISIS-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, was plotting to attack Iran, they said.

    American officials said the information passed to Iran was specific enough about the location and sufficiently timely that it might have proved useful to Tehran in thwarting the attack on Jan. 3 or at least mitigating the casualty toll.

  • Commentary: Were the Saudis Right About the Houthis After All?

    Past experience, including with Somali pirates, has shown that attempting to patrol large bodies of water with a limited naval force isn’t enough to suppress piracy. Rather, the cost of such aggression has to be rendered unsustainable for the culprits. The Biden administration is now leading the international demand that the Houthis desist and that the security of international shipping and commerce in this all-important waterway be restored. The Houthis, for their part, appear to be relishing the prospect of a confrontation with the United States. That is, or at least must be made to be, their problem.

  • Israeli tanks batter hospital districts in Gaza’s Khan Younis, displaced set to flee southward

     Israeli tanks bombarded areas around two hospitals in Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis on Thursday, forcing displaced people into a new desperate scramble for safe shelter, residents said, in an offensive Israel says is targeting Hamas militants.
    Gaza health officials said at least 50 Palestinians had been killed in Khan Younis in the past 24 hours, including two children in an Israeli air strike that hit a residential home.

  • US envoy sees rapid F-16s sale to Turkey after Sweden NATO bid sign-off

    The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he anticipates that President Tayyip Erdogan will give a final sign-off on Sweden's NATO membership within days, triggering rapid steps toward U.S. Congress endorsing a sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara.
    In an interview on Thursday, Ambassador Jeff Flake said that once the formal ratification document is received in Washington, the U.S. State Department will immediately send Congress notification of the $20 billion F-16s sale.

  • Hevolution releases inaugural Global Healthspan Report

    Back in November, we reported on Hevolution Foundation‘s two day Global Healthspan Summit in Riyadh; with over 1000 attendees and 100 speakers, Hevolution hoped the summit would serve as a trigger, shifting perception of aging and longevity and catalyzing a move towards global healthspan. To build on this event and scaffold the shift from sickcare to healthspan, Hevolution has released its inaugural Global Healthspan Report today; the report builds on the success of the summit and delivers needed insights to support progress for global healthspan goals.