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  • Sudan’s capital resounds with gunfire as US pushes to extend truce

    The United States and African nations raced to secure an extension of a ceasefire in Sudan on Thursday, with the Sudanese army saying it had given an initial nod to an African proposal calling for talks even as heavy fighting continued. Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force - the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - which are locked in a power struggle threatening to destabilise the wider region.

  • Sheikh Abdullah thanks Saudi rulers for helping UAE citizens and others escape Khartoum

    Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, has told Saudi officials that the role the kingdom has played in the evacuation of people caught up in the violence in Sudan has been appreciated. Sheikh Abdullah spoke to his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, on the phone on Monday. The kingdom had made outstanding efforts in co-operation with other nations in the evacuation efforts, according to Wam.

  • Rival factions defy ceasefire to bombard Sudan’s capital, Japan plans evacuation

    Air strikes and explosions hammered Sudan's capital on Wednesday after the failure of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the army and paramilitary forces, forcing residents to stay hunkered down and prompting Japan to prepare to evacuate its citizens. Continuous bombardments and loud blasts could be heard in central Khartoum in the area around the defence ministry compound and the airport, which has been fiercely contested and put out of action since fighting erupted at the weekend.

  • Lebanon seizes 10 million captagon pills being smuggled abroad – minister

    Lebanon's security forces have seized an estimated 10 million captagon pills that were to be smuggled to Senegal and then on to Saudi Arabia, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said in a tweet on Friday. The drugs were found in a shipment of rubber carbon during an operation in which four people were arrested in the Al-Qubbah area, in northern Lebanon, Mawlawi said.

  • US says its forces captured Islamic State operative in raid in Syria

    The U.S. military conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria late on Saturday and captured an Islamic State operative and two of his associates, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Wednesday. "The capture of Hudayfah al Yemeni and his associates will disrupt the organization's ability to plot and carry out operations," the statement said, adding no civilians were killed or hurt.

  • Saudi envoy says in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital to ‘stabilize’ truce

    Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Yemen said on Monday he had traveled to the country's Houthi-held capital to strengthen a truce and push dialogue that could end the country's eight-year-old war. “I visit Sanaa along with a delegation from the brotherly Sultanate of Oman to stabilize the truce and ceasefire,” Mohammed Al-Jaber said on Twitter in the first official comment from Saudi authorities about the trip.

  • Could Riyadh be the Middle East’s next culinary capital?

    Over the last three years, a multitude of fine dining restaurants have opened in the Saudi capital, coinciding with Saudi Arabia’s grand social and economic transformation spearheaded by Vision 2030. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious reform plan aims to increase household spending on cultural and entertainment activities to 6 percent, up 2.9 percent from when the Vision was unveiled in 2016.

  • Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains

    Yet venture firms, which tend to paint themselves as more virtuous than other asset providers in order to win over founders, have mostly remained highly secretive about any ties to the region. Which makes comments made yesterday by Horowitz at the Miami event all the more notable.

  • After talks in Russia, Saudi Arabia warns price caps on its oil will spark retaliation

    Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud has declared that the Kingdom will not sell oil to any country that imposes a price cap on its supplies. The posturing against potential oil price ceilings targeting Saudi oil notably follows consultations between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The diplomatic engagement in Moscow last week also resulted in the reaffirmation by both countries that agreed oil production cuts will be upheld.

  • Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Slams NOPEC Bill And Price Caps

    “The Nopec bill does not recognize the importance of holding spare capacity and the consequences of not holding spare capacity on market stability,” bin Salman said, adding that “Nopec would also undermine investments in oil capacity and will cause global supply to fall severely short of future demand.”