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  • A passwordless server run by NSO Group sparks contact-tracing privacy concerns

    Israel-based private security firm NSO Group, known for making mobile hacking tools, is leading one of Israel’s contact-tracing efforts. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered one of NSO’s contact-tracing systems on the internet, unprotected and without a password, for anyone to access. After he contacted the company, NSO pulled the unprotected database offline. Diachenko said he believes the database contains dummy data.

  • Saudi cabinet affirms Palestinian cause will remain ‘central issue’ for Arabs and Muslims: SPA

    Saudi Arabia’s cabinet affirmed late on Tuesday that the Palestinian cause will remain a “central issue” for Arabs and Muslims, Saudi news agency said in a statement issued early on Wednesday. The statement added the cabinet also reviewed the results of the emergency Arab League meeting which condemned the Israeli authorities plans to annex any Palestinian land.

  • Saudi Arabia Moves Up 18 Places in Budget Transparency Index

    After releasing the financial results of Q1 2020, Saudi Arabia has made a marked improvement in terms of budget transparency and accountability, according to the Open Budget Index survey released on Wednesday. The survey, conducted by International Budget Partnership (IBP), an international non-profit organization concerned with evaluating disclosure and transparency of general budgets worldwide, said Saudi Arabia has advanced 18 ranks, after scoring 18 points compared to one point in the previous survey conducted in 2017.

  • ‘Seven Days in Space’ tells Prince Sultan’s story of fasting, praying in space

    "Seven Days in Space" opens a window on the experiences of five astronauts and their spaceship Discovery in 1985. But it is the author, whose writing is detailed and captivating, who relates his experiences and discoveries on a space voyage that shaped him into a humane leader. Prince Sultan Bin Salman, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Space Commission and the author, recollects that the time of his journey into space was during Ramadan, and reveals that this period also enhanced his closeness with the Almighty.

  • Saudi TV Series Sparks Rare Ramadan Debate on Ties With Israel

    “The notion of a real Saudi-Israeli normalization is still far-fetched,” said Abdulaziz Alghashian, a lecturer of international relations at the U.K.’s University of Essex. But the TV show did at least start to normalize discourse about normalization, he said, and it could be “a way of gradually introducing the Saudi public to very early stages of sporadic Saudi-Israeli cooperation.”

  • Analysis: Iran’s space launches are not a cover for missile work. Until they are

    Wednesday’s launch, however, was different from earlier ones in significant ways. First, it was not the civilian Iranian Space Agency, but the Revolutionary Guard Corps that conducted it. It’s an entirely separate development track—one that was thought to be dormant since 2011, but that has actually quietly continued.

  • A hunt for any storage space turns urgent as oil glut grows

    With oil depots that normally store crude oil onshore filling to the brim and supertankers mostly taken, energy companies are desperate for more space. The alternative is to pay buyers to take their U.S. crude after futures plummeted to a negative $37 a barrel on Monday. A topsy-turvy market that has oil prices for October delivery at $31 a barrel has oil firms anxious to sock away millions of barrels now to sell at a profit later.

  • How Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s first English-language newspaper, was born

    The first issue of Arab News, a 16-page tabloid, was published on April 20, 1975, from a small garage in Jeddah. Thanks to its instant popularity, and the quantity of advertising it generated, by the end of August it had blossomed into a broadsheet.

  • Saudi Arabia executes man who attacked Spanish performers

    Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Yemeni man found guilty of attacking a Spanish dance troupe and wounding three people on stage before a stunned audience in the capital last year. The Interior Ministry announced the execution in a statement and identified the man as 33-year-old Yemeni national Emad Abdelqawi al-Mansouri. He was sentenced to death in late December, a swift six weeks after the attack in Riyadh in mid-November.

  • Spanish company to build second largest desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

    Spanish company Abengoa, in consortium with SEPCOIII is set to construct a 600,000m3 / day desalination plant in Saudi Arabia; the second largest plant with reverse osmosis technology in the country.