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  • Saudi Arabia sentences eight on charges of spying for Iran: state TV

    A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced one Saudi citizen to death and seven others to jail on charges of treason and spying for Iran, Saudi state television tweeted on Tuesday. The seven sentenced to jail were found to have “associated and cooperated with people working in the Iranian embassy," the broadcaster tweeted without providing more details.

  • Saudi Jobseekers Move Into Uber Gear For Extra Cash

    The company's spokesman says it is available in 20 cities in the kingdom and that more than 200,000 Saudis have driven for the app-based business since it launched in 2014. "I work for seven hours a day, five days a week, and make an average of 6,000 riyals per month from Uber," said Ahmed, adding the second job had helped ease his financial burden.

  • Saudi and Allies Restore Postal Service to Qatar Amid Rift

    Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain are resuming postal services to Qatar -- frozen during a diplomatic rift that’s lasted nearly three years -- following a similar move by the United Arab Emirates. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the shift indicated a broader mending of ties between the states, mired since June 2017 in a dispute that’s hurt trade and split the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at a time of heightened tensions with Iran.

  • Iran elections: Record low turnout but hardliners set for win

    Iran has seen the lowest turnout in a parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution, with 42.6% of eligible voters casting their ballots. Officials had banned thousands of contenders, many of them reformers. Hardliners are set for big gains in the first vote since US sanctions resumed.

  • Saudi-led coalition says it foiled Red Sea attack by Yemen’s Houthis

    The forces destroyed an unmanned boat laden with explosives that was launched from Hodeidah province in western Yemen, coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said in a statement on Saudi state news agency SPA, without identifying the targets.

  • Iran Faces Long-Term Banking Woes Under Terror-Finance Watchdog Action

    The Financial Action Task Force’s action against Iran was made more permanent by a little-noticed clause that gives the U.S. and its allies the ability to block removal of the sanctions even if Tehran adopts new antiterror and money-laundering regulations. The blacklisting and associated sanctions are expected to further choke Iran’s remaining financial and trade ties and politically isolate the country.

  • From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan

    While this spacecraft was assembled on American soil, it will not be exploring the red planet for NASA. Hope is instead an effort by the United Arab Emirates, an oil-rich country smaller than the state of Maine and one that has never sent anything out into the solar system.

  • Pope Francis Warns Against ‘Unfair’ Middle East Peace Plans

    In a speech Sunday during a visit to the Italian southern port city of Bari to reflect on peace in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Francis lamented the many areas of war and conflict, including in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Francis spoke of “the still unresolved conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, with the danger of not fair solutions, and, thus, presaging new crises.”

  • Libyan Minister Chides UN, International Community for Failing to Protect His Country

    The head of Libya’s internationally recognized government has criticized the international community for not supporting the Libyan people and Government of National Accord, who are under attack by rebel forces. He spoke at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The president of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord of Libya, Faiez Mustafa Serraj, quickly departed from diplomatic niceties to complain about the lack of U.N. and international support for his beleaguered government.

  • Super-Size Solar Farms Are Taking Over the World

    As many of the world’s major governments and corporations move to transition the global power supply away from fossil fuels, developers are transforming swaths of empty desert, agricultural land, and rural lakefront into vast solar energy farms. The mega-sized projects represent a new class of renewable power capacity that’s finally approaching the scale of coal-, oil-, and natural gas-fired plants.