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  • PM Modi meets Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister, exchanges views on regional situation

    This is the first ministerial visit from Saudi Arabia to India since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prince Faisal bin Farhan is on a three-day visit to New Delhi.

  • Five Ways 9/11 Changed the Defense Industry

    Two weeks before hijacked airliners slammed into the Twin Towers, Boeing tested a prototype rocket that would become the centerpiece of a limited defensive shield against intercontinental missiles. Nine days after the attacks, the U.S. Air Force ordered its first 10 F-22 Raptors, stealth fighters designed to dominate Russia’s best warplanes. And on Oct. 26, just days after Vietnam-era B-52s began carpet-bombing al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced that Lockheed Martin would build the tri-service combat jet now known as the F-35.

  • Where will climate change migrants go?

    As early as 2030, cities like Cairo, Hanoi, Dhaka, Tashkent could become climate immigration hotspots. The latest report, which focuses primarily on North Africa, East Asia, and Central Asia, builds on a document from 2018 that focused on sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

  • Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers, is keen to show how much has changed

    Saudi Arabia says it recently revolutionized the Al-Ha'ir prison — an effort to reform inmates with music, sports and even a company run by the inmates themselves, which manufactures perfume and furniture. The prisoners in charge of the operation wore business suits during the visit by Williams and her photographer. They were filmed by other inmates, and accompanied at all times by prison officials.

  • More in U.S. Say American Lives Permanently Changed by 9/11

    U.S. adults are more likely now than at any prior point to say that Americans have permanently changed the way they live. The 64% saying this is up slightly from 58% at the 10th anniversary, and from percentages near 50% in the first few years after 9/11. Asked about the effect on their own lives, 28% say they have permanently changed the way they live. This is unchanged from a decade ago, but slightly higher than Gallup measured between 2002 and 2006.

  • HSBC Saudi Arabia offers the first climate change focused investment fund in the kingdom

    HSBC Saudi Arabia is now offering the first environmental initiative investment fund in Saudi Arabia, known as the HSBC Global Equity Climate Change Fund, offering eligible investors exposure to renewable energy, clean transport, sustainable water management and climate change adaptation. This will provide interested customers participation and direct access to investments that help reduce the impact of climate change.

  • Climate Change Is Making the Middle East Literally Uninhabitable

    The Middle East is warming at twice the global average and by 2050 will be 4 degrees Celsius warmer as compared with the 1.5 degree mark that scientists have prescribed to save humanity. The World Bank says extreme climatic conditions will become routine and the region could face four months of scorching sun every year.

  • Analysis: Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger

    Iran last week revealed a huge new gas deposit located in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea. The ‘Chalous’ structure is to be developed with the intention of forming a new gas hub in northern Iran to complement the southern gas hub centred on the massive South Pars field.

  • How climate change shaped evolution in the Middle East

    Published in Cell, this is the first comprehensive population-scale study of Middle Eastern DNA. It used linked-read sequencing, a technique which enabled the team to reconstruct the population history of the region in unprecedented detail. As well as providing insights into ancient human history, these data will be an important resource for the study of genetic health and adaptations, such as type 2 diabetes and lactose tolerance, in Middle Eastern populations.

  • Perspective: Saudi Social And Economic Change Proves To Be A Delicate Balancing Act

    Prince Mohammed’s Vision 2030 reform plan promises, according to the World Bank, to protect citizens from the pain of economic change by “modernizing the social welfare system, redirecting price subsidies toward those in need, preparing and training those unable to find employment, and providing tailored care and support to the most vulnerable citizen.”  In doing so, the government has sought to soften the impact of higher energy prices as well as the introduction tripling of value-added tax (VAT) and expatriate levy.