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  • Opinion: Change brings progress and long-term opportunities in Saudi Arabia

    There are signs that the leadership have learnt from the past, and that a stable Saudi Arabia requires more sweeping changes, including greater private sector involvement which will require education and job creation. The target is to increase private sector involvement from 40% to 65% of GDP by 2030 and to drive the share of non-oil exports in non-oil GDP from 16% to 50%. There seems to be a shift too in the people, from simply expecting handouts from the government towards removing red tape to enable entrepreneurialism – from banker to backer. However, real change will take time, and Vision 2030 still has many of the hallmarks of the past: vast megaprojects which are currently unbuilt or have limited occupancy and may struggle to make economic returns.

  • OPEC’s oil cuts could change America’s relations with Saudi Arabia, Venezuela

    The cut in production, in reality, will be lower than 2 million because OPEC and its allies have been underproducing. In August, the coalition missed its targets by 3.58 million barrels per day. In Nigeria, for instance, oil production hit a 32-year-low amid pipeline vandalism and theft. According to Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman, the real cuts will be around 1 million bpd, and analysts put that figure even lower, as Reuters reported.

  • Newcastle’s takeover: Inside the year that changed everything – and what comes next

    Over the past few weeks, The Athletic has spoken to multiple figures at every level at Newcastle, from the boardroom to the dressing room to the stands, to directors at other clubs, to agents who have worked with them, and plenty more, to mark this natural staging post and also point towards the future. There is a mood of excitement and energy and a redoubling of commitment.

  • Newcastle’s takeover: Inside the year that changed everything – and what comes next

    Over the past few weeks, The Athletic has spoken to multiple figures at every level at Newcastle, from the boardroom to the dressing room to the stands, to directors at other clubs, to agents who have worked with them, and plenty more, to mark this natural staging post and also point towards the future. There is a mood of excitement and energy and a redoubling of commitment.

  • Climate change to bring enhanced droughts worldwide

    A study from the University of East Anglia estimates that rising global temperatures will increase the length and spread of major droughts for India, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil, and Egypt.

  • Perspective: Saudi National Day – How ads changed during recent years?

    Ads in Saudi Arabia in previous years have always adhered to showing only certain details, desert, horse, sword, hot weather, veiled women with Niqab wearing bold Kohl (eyeliner) on their eyes. But the new ads have shifted in recent years to telling a story from the history of the country or the change taking place or even sending a message through a song or short film. And the ministries, institutions have become dependent on 100% Saudi staff to create advertisements that show the true image of the Kingdom and its transformations over the years.

  • Kurds fear ‘everything will change’ if Syria, Turkey reconcile

    A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria's conflict broke out, the country's roughly two million Kurds were not permitted to learn the Kurdish language in school or celebrate their cultural occasions. A year after Syria's uprising began in 2011, government forces withdrew from swathes of the north – paving the way for a Kurdish-led "autonomous administration" to run its own institutions, including schools where Kurdish was taught.

  • How climate change is destroying the oases of Morocco

    “These are systems that resisted all impacts of climate change across time,” said Youssef Brouziyne, the Middle East and North Africa representative of the International Water Management Institute. He noted that scientists study oases to understand how to make other ecosystems more resilient. But the lack of rain, as well as new intensive farming systems, have endangered the balance. “It’s broken,” he said.

  • AI, EVs and More Ways Tech Is About to Change the World

    Artificial intelligence has knock-on effects that will make goods and services cheaper, to the benefit of all. And although the technology might end up devaluing certain jobs, it can’t replace the entire service sector.

  • Saudi Arabia: Foreign workers can change sponsorship without paying outstanding due

    As part of ongoing sweeping reforms in foreign employee rules, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced a major development that a foreign worker can change the sponsorship without paying outstanding government iqama fee.