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  • Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI)
    Saudi’s SAMI, Spain’s Navantia sign $991 million defense deal

    In addition to combat systems integration, the new agreement will focus on system engineering and architecture, hardware design, software ‎development, testing and verification, prototyping, simulation, and modeling, the report said. SAMI and Navantia signed an agreement last year to jointly manufacture five corvettes for the Saudi navy.

  • Iran
    Iran’s Zarif Dismisses U.S. Space-Agency Sanctions As ‘Totally Ineffective’

    Iran's foreign minister has accused the United States of an overreliance on sanctions and said the latest punitive measures out of Washington targeting his country's space and research sectors are "totally ineffective."

  • SPACECOM
    US Space Command Launches Thursday

    The U.S. military has not created a command since U.S. Cyber Command was established in 2009. SPACECOM is the military’s 11th combatant command, and each have either a geographic or functional mission for military operations.

  • ME Air Traffic
    Airspace Congestion in Middle East Poses Major Costs

    According to Albakri, flight delays attributable to ATC issues in the region average 29 minutes. He said without urgent action that number could double by 2025, costing more than $7 billion in lost productivity for passengers and adding more than $9 billion to airline operating costs.

  • Maersk
    Saudi Arabia’s ports authority issues license to Maersk to operate in all ports-SPA

    Maersk currently has weekly containerised shipping services to the ports of Jeddah, King Abdullah, Dammam and Jubail

  • UK Newspapers
    UK criticises Saudi purchase of newspaper stakes in court

    The UK government has attacked as “unconventional, complex and clandestine” a Saudi investor’s purchase of large stakes in the companies that publish The Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, as it sought to justify probes into the sales at a competition tribunal.

  • Middle East Travel
    Iran-U.S. Spat Leaves Mideast Airlines Encircled by Hostile Skies

    Airlines in the Middle East are used to avoiding trouble spots, but airspace closures spurred by mounting tension between Iran and the U.S. mean they now face diversions whether flying north, south, east or west. Conflicts in the region had left a legacy of no-fly zones long before the latest flareup between Washington and Tehran. Israeli airlines have been barred from skies above most other Mideast states for decades, while wars in Syria and Yemen mean overflights there are too risky, according to regulators. And rifts between Arab nations have added to the patchwork of no-go areas.

  • Qatar
    Spanish Connection Emerges In Case Of Mysterious Qatari Missile Seized In Italy

    Qatar has all but said that the French-made Matra Super 530F air-to-air missile that Italian authorities recently recovered was among those it sold to Spain 25 years ago.

  • Soccer
    General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia announces creation of elite performance centre in Spain

    The General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia has announced the creation of an elite performance centre in Europe, aimed at developing the Kingdom’s most promising young football talent. The four-year scholarship programme, confirmed on Monday, will select between 30-40 of the country’s best under-20 players to train for a year at the FutbolSalou complex, a specifically created facility in Salou, northeast Spain.

  • Pilatus
    Swiss ban aerospace firm Pilatus from operating in Saudi, UAE

    In 2017, Pilatus signed a five-year maintenance contract on a fleet of 55 jets it sold to the Saudi military, while the UAE has bought 25 jets from the company used to train pilots. The company's work in the two countries amounts to "technical support, replacement parts management and rectifying faults affecting the Pilatus PC-21 aircraft," the foreign ministry said in a statement.