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Dolce & Gabbana Launches Flagship Saudi Store at Via Riyadh after Approaching KSA Market with ‘Caution and Respect’
Fashion icon Dolce & Gabbana unveiled a unique strategy for Saudi Arabia, opening up a flagship new store in Via Riyadh after approaching the market with “caution and respect,” Vogue Middle East reported.
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KSRelief Spearheads Saudi aid to Gaza and the Globe
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) provides humanitarian aid and relief to people outside of Saudi Arabia’s borders. KSRelief was established by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in 2015 and works in 46 countries, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Biden’s Oil Boom
Reuters reports that during the Biden administration not only has oil production hit record highs but energy company profits, dividends, drilling permits, jobs and energy exports are all up.
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PIF Increases Investment in Lucid
Ayar Third Investment Company, a PIF affiliate, will buy $1 billion in convertible preferred stock and will be able to convert the preferred stock into about 280 million shares, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. securities regulator.
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Saudi Arabia to join Miss Universe for the first time
27-year-old model, influencer, and beauty pageant veteran Rumy AlQahtani announced on Instagram that she will be representing Saudi Arabia in 72nd Miss Universe contest in Mexico later this year.
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Hyundai and Red Sea Global Agree to Test EVs and Air Mobility Systems
Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday it has agreed with Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored developer Red Sea Global (RSG) to cooperate in the Middle Eastern country’s push for electrification and other eco-friendly future mobility projects.
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Saudi Film Commission Reports Impressive 2023 Growth Statistics
Published in Screen Daily, the Saudi Film Commission reported on topline 2023 metrics for Saudi Arabia’s growing film industry. With more than 50% of the Saudi population under 25, there is a significant appetite for cinema, particularly for US action films, Egyptian comedies, and Saudi narratives.
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FIFA Series 2024 Friendly Matches Kick Off in Jeddah
The FIFA Series: Saudi Arabia A will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from March 21–26, 2024. The event will feature two groups, including Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, and Cape Verde. The series is designed to help national teams that do not often play teams from other confederations, and FIFA will cover the teams’ travel costs. There will be […]
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NYT Reports on Proposed $40B Saudi AI Investment
The New York Times’ Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland report that Saudi Arabia is working with Wall Street banks to establish a $40 billion AI-focused investment fund.
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U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Visit Middle East this week Seeking Ceasefire Agreement
U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, “The Secretary will discuss efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire agreement that secures the release of all remaining hostages, intensified international efforts to increase humanitarian assistance to Gaza, and coordination on post-conflict planning for Gaza, including ensuring Hamas can no longer govern or repeat the attacks of October 7.”
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Perspective: U.S. Fixation on Nuclear Deal Let Iran Loose on the Middle East
Early in the process, there was a clear imbalance between Washington’s perception and Tehran’s. Washington thought that engaging Iran on the nuclear file would curb the latter’s destabilizing potential in the region, and this assumption motivated the signing of an initial nuclear agreement with Iran in 2013. But Iran celebrated the agreement as a political victory and otherwise carried on. Despite this, the Obama administration pressed on in pursuit of a wider nuclear deal, and in 2015 managed to secure the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Biden names new special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appointed Lise Grande as the new special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, the State Department said in a statement.Grande, who replaces David Satterfield, is currently head of the independent U.S. Institute of Peace. She previously worked for the United Nations for more than 25 years, a career that included running aid operations in Yemen, Iraq and South Sudan.
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US State Dept’s Middle East spox resigns over Gaza policy
The U.S. State Department's spokeswoman for Middle East and North Africa announced her resignation on Thursday, in protest of Washington's policies regarding the Gaza Strip, amid Israel's atrocities. "I resigned April 2024 after 18 years of distinguished service in opposition to the United States’ Gaza policy. Diplomacy, not arms. Be a force for peace and unity,” Hala Rharrit wrote in a LinkedIn post, according to Al Arabiya.
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Book Review: The Conflicts Shaping the Middle East
The recently released book “Battleground – 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East” by historian Christopher Phillips provides a useful overview of ten ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The author takes an ambitious approach to explaining these conflicts, trying to pack in a great deal of information into ten chapters that describe the conflicts and countries involved.
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Opinion: By cracking down on the Gaza protests, US universities are betraying their core mission
Huge coalitions of US students have united against Israel’s rampage that has targeted not just Hamas but Gaza society generally, damaged or destroyed the vast majority of buildings, and killed at least 35,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians. The slaughter has been shocking, even given the vicious savagery of the October 7 attack.
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Israel says it is poised to move on Rafah
Israel's military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence official said on Wednesday, despite international warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said Israel was "moving ahead" with a ground operation, but gave no timeline.The defence official said Israel's Defence Ministry had bought 40,000 tents, each with the capacity for 10 to 12 people, to house Palestinians relocated from Rafah in advance of an assault.
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Saudi giga-project Diriyah Gate targets 2027 completion
Diriyah Gate, one of the first Saudi giga-projects, said this week that it was on target for completion by late 2027. The opening of the project’s first hotel is now rescheduled for later this year. “We’re looking forward to the conclusion of our project, probably toward the end of 2027,” said Andrew Tonnor, Diriyah Gate’s chief delivery officer, in a presentation to potential vendors. “We’re one of the five PIF giga-projects, we’ve been incorporated since 2019 when we were founded as a project and development company.
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‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
More than 200,000 people converged at the conference, including Adam Selipsky, chief executive of Amazon’s cloud computing division, who announced a $5.3 billion investment in Saudi Arabia for data centers and artificial intelligence technology. Arvind Krishna, the chief executive of IBM, spoke of what a government minister called a “lifetime friendship” with the kingdom. Executives from Huawei and dozens of other firms made speeches. More than $10 billion in deals were done there, according to Saudi Arabia’s state press agency.
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Saudi Arabia welcomes panel’s report on UNRWA’s performance
Saudi Arabia welcomed the results of an independent committee’s report on the performance of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the results of the report confirm the agency’s main role in supporting the relief, humanitarian and development efforts of the Palestinian people. - 10 of 57529 results<< 1 2 3 4 … 5,753 >>