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  • Trump Travel Ban
    Trump’s Travel Ban: Supreme Court Ruling Expected Soon

    The Supreme Court is expected to decide within days whether the Trump administration can enforce a ban on visitors to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim countries.

  • Israel
    Israel would go ‘all-out’ if war breaks out again with Lebanon: air force chief

    Israel would use all its strength from the start in any new war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the chief of the Israeli air force said on Wednesday, sending a firm warning a decade after their last conflict.

  • Foreign Military Sales
    US lawmakers skeptical of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Lebanon

    Days after the Senate vote to block smart-bomb sales to Riyadh narrowly failed, members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee grilled the Trump administration’s top officials for foreign military sales on the wisdom of a larger $110 billion deal with Saudi Arabia.

  • Egypt
    Egypt bans scores of news websites in growing censorship crackdown

    The spike in censorship has come as a surprise, even to journalists long-accustomed to reporting within strict red lines in Egypt where direct criticism of the military, the president, and judiciary are considered taboo and punishable by jail time.

  • Laptop Restrictions
    Airlines body says laptop ban affecting Middle East-U.S. traffic

    Restrictions on bringing large electronic devices into aircraft cabins on certain routes to the United States are affecting traffic between the Middle East and the United States, a global airlines' association said on Thursday.

  • Barclays Bank
    Suit Alleging Secret Bank Deal Deemed Untimely

    A construction company associated with one of Saudi Arabia's richest men failed to file in a timely manner its $10 billion fraud lawsuit accusing Barclays Bank of arranging an illicit deal with Saudi officials, a Manhattan appeals court ruled Thursday.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Israeli finance minister holds rare West Bank meeting with Palestinian PM

    Israel's finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a U.S. peace push.

  • SABB-Alawwal Merger
    Saudi British Bank picks Goldman for Alawwal merger advice

    Saudi British Bank (SABB), which is 40 percent owned by HSBC Holdings, has appointed Goldman Sachs to advise it on a proposed merger with fellow Saudi Arabian lender Alawwal Bank, sources familiar with the matter said.

  • Tadawul MSCI Bid
    Deutsche Bank Sees Saudi Inflows Topping $35 Billion on MSCI

    Saudi Arabia could attract tens of billions of dollars in foreign investments in the Arab world’s biggest stock market if it’s added to MSCI Inc.’s emerging-markets index, according to Deutsche Bank AG’s chief executive officer for the Middle East and Africa.

  • Softbank Vision Fund
    SoftBank has taken a $4 billion stake in US chipmaper Nvidia

    The Japanese tech giant, which acquired UK chip designer ARM for $31 billion (£24 billion) last September, reportedly disclosed that it owns an unspecified amount of Nvidia stock when it announced that it has closed a $93 billion (£72 billion) "Vision Fund" over the weekend.