MUST-READS

• Investment
  Saudi Minister of Commerce: Riyadh Is Looking for Investment Opportunities in Greece

  During the meeting they discussed the possibilities of cooperation in the field of tourism and logistics. The Saudi side has asked for sharing of knowhow because it wants to organise tourist areas that do not have the restrictions that apply elsewhere. According to government sources, Saudis also want their country to become a logistics hub for the region, while they asked for a list of areas where Saudi Arabian capital can be invested.

• Yemen Civil War
  Yemen’s medical air bridge offers rare glimpse of hope

  It is a small but significant crack in a more than three-year-long blockade of civilian flights by a Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government in its war with the rebel Houthi movement. If all goes as planned, a series of flights, carrying patients and their caregivers, will leave for Amman and Cairo this month. "If Raghad stays in Yemen, both her legs would have to be amputated because doctors here aren't able to treat her," her father reveals, his voice breaking mid-sentence as he fights back tears. "For her, that would be worse than death."

  • Reuters - Medical flights to start from Yemen's Sanaa in diplomatic breakthrough
• Afghanistan
  Taliban attacks in Afghanistan are at their highest level in a decade

  The Taliban launched more attacks across Afghanistan in during the last three months of 2019 than during the same period each year since the U.S. first started collecting data back in 2010, according to a new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The Taliban launched an eye-popping 8,204 attacks in the fourth quarter of 2019, a 17 percent increase over the 6,974 attacks launched in the same time period during the previous year, according to SIGAR's latest quarterly report on security and reconstruction efforts in the country.

• Libya
  In Libya, Toothless U.N. Embargo Lets Foreign States Meddle With Impunity

  It was one of the most shocking episodes of recent fighting in Libya, and the United Nations seemed determined to get to the bottom of it. A 13-page report published last week described in stark detail the bombing in July of a detention center in the town of Tajoura, near Tripoli, which killed 53 people, mostly African migrants. The United Nations report featured testimony from survivors, measured the bomb crater and called for an investigation into a possible war crime.

• Locusts
  Spray planes combat the huge locust outbreak in East Africa

  As locusts by the billions — yes, billions — descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, small planes are flying low over affected areas to spray pesticides in what experts call the only effective control.

• Ministry of Justice
  Saudi MoJ: Up to 17K Applicants Register as Mediators, Nearly Half of Them Are Women

  “The applicants have various professions, including professors, doctors and lawyers; which enriches the reconciliation process and enhances outcomes,” the ministry said. “In total, the applicants are committed to carry out over 220,000 voluntary mediation sessions,” the ministry explained.

• Weight Loss
  Get Fit: Saudi Arabia Launches Campaign to Cut Excess Fat by 300 Tons!

  During Nahdi’s first public Wazen Hayatak program in Jeddah, which ended in January 2016, 2,772 participants lost a total of 3.7 tons. The public face of the campaign is Saudi entrepreneur and social-media star Adwa Al-Dakheel, who took part in a public weigh-in.

• Al-Qaeda
  Al Qaeda Claims It Directed Florida Naval Base Shooting

  In an audiotape message, Al Qaeda’s leader in Yemen claimed responsibility for the December attack that killed three U.S. sailors. The militant himself was most likely killed in a drone strike after he made the tape.

• Hyundai
  Hyundai clinches Saudi taxi supply deal

  The automaker announced Monday that it had signed a contract with the Saudi transportation company Al-Safwa to supply 1,000 new Sonata DN8 sedans. The carmaker delivered 100 of the vehicles to King Khalid International Airport on Dec. 22 with Saudi Minister of Transport Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser in attendance. The other 900 will be delivered before the end of the year.

• Climate Emergency
  Which cities have declared climate emergencies?

  Communities in 25 countries have acknowledged the emergency, as of Jan. 28. The world’s most populous nations, however, have yet to get on board. Forty percent of the world lives in China or India. No municipalities in either have declared a climate emergency.

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