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  • Saudi Arabia Warns Against Travel to Italy, Japan: Arabiya TV

    Saudi Arabia has advised citizens and residents to avoid traveling to Italy and Japan amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak, state-owned Al Arabiya TV reported on Tuesday.

  • Khalid Al-Falih Returns as Investment Minister

    Saudi Arabia’s former energy minister Khalid Al-Falih returned to government on Tuesday with a new appointment as investment minister, about six months after he was suddenly ousted from his posts. A series of royal orders created a separate ministry of investment and appointed Al-Falih to head it. Other royal orders created new ministries for tourism and sports and replaced the kingdom’s minister of media with Majid Al-Qasabi, on an acting basis. Al-Qasabi is a close adviser of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

  • OPEC hasn’t run out of ideas, Saudi energy minister insists

    Prince Abdulaziz insisted that the producer countries in the alliance communicate and he was “confident of our partnership,” adding that every producer was a “responsible” one.

  • Eight coronavirus cases confirmed in Bahrain, including four Saudi Arabian women

    Two Bahraini nationals, one male and one female, and four Saudi Arabian female nationals who came from Iran tested positive for the virus upon their arrival in Bahrain International Airport.

  • Air Products enters into another major joint venture in Saudi Arabia

    Spokesman Art George declined to provide specific costs but noted the Saudi project is similar in scope to one announced last month in the Gulf Coast. At $500 million, the company called that project, which will supply industrial gases toward an ammonia production plant in the South, the largest investment in the U.S. in the company’s 80-year history.

  • 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.