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  • Yemeni government, separatists start executing Riyadh pact, says coalition

    The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said that implementation of a long-delayed deal aimed at reuniting its Yemeni allies would start on Thursday with a troop redeployment in the south ahead of announcing a new power-sharing government. The agreement, first announced in November and revived in July, was brokered by Riyadh to end a standoff between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and southern separatists who are both part of the coalition that has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement since 2015.

  • Monshaat partners with US university to help Saudi SMEs

    The new academy will help SMEs become more efficient and adopt industry business practices, a Monshaat official told Arab News on Tuesday. A three-month program will cover corporate innovation strategies, market development, growth management and SMEs scale-ups services.

  • Gantz says his party will vote with the opposition to dissolve parliament

    Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday his party will vote in favor of an opposition-backed bill to dissolve the Knesset, which would come for a preliminary vote on Wednesday, as he continued to butt heads with coalition partner Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • State Department approves $350M deal for security services to Saudi Arabia

    "This proposed sale will continue to improve Saudi Arabia's capability to meet current and future threats by utilizing USMTM's continued efforts to train, advise, and assist the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces to build defense capacity and capability through military exercises and professional military education. USMTM conducts non-combat, institutional advising that assists the MOD in developing, training, and sustaining a capable deterrent to regional threats," the DSCA said.

  • Acting defense secretary assures end of ‘generational’ Mideast wars in announcement of partial drawdown

    Those conditions are a bit of a moving target. Pentagon officials have been saying for months that they include a reduction of violence against U.S. troops and a demonstration on the part of the Taliban that they are committed to preventing Afghanistan from becoming an al-Qaida safe haven again, in turn assuring that no further terrorist attacks against the U.S. will come out of that country.

  • State Department approves $23.37B in weapons sales to UAE, including 50 F-35s

    The DSCA released three announcements Tuesday regarding the proposed deals: $10.4 billion for 50 F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take-Off and Landing aircraft, $10 billion for 800 AIM-120C8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles and $2.97 billion for 18 Weapons-Ready MQ-9B, Remotely Piloted Aircraft.

  • OPEC+ starts meetings to weigh further steps to support market

    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies started meetings on Monday that will look at further action to support the oil market in 2021, as the second wave of coronavirus weighs on demand and prices.

  • With locals untrained on key functions, US departure could mean trouble for Afghanistan’s airports

    The U.S. and NATO plan to transfer control of airports in Afghanistan as the coalition withdraws, but Afghan officials at the country’s second largest airport say they still haven’t been trained to take over. Locals haven’t been shown how to run the air traffic control tower, man the radar or perform a number of other crucial tasks handled by NATO personnel at Kandahar’s Ahmad Shab Baba International Airport, said Massoud Pashtoon, the facility’s director of civil aviation.

  • Kuma and Foster + Partners designing Saudi Arabian tourist development

    Architecture studios Kengo Kuma and Associates and Foster + Partners are designing a tourism development on an archipelago of Saudi Arabian islands within the Red Sea, which will be served by its own dedicated airport. Named The Red Sea Project, the development will be built on a chain of 90 undeveloped islands between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh on the west coast of Saudi Arabia.

  • With a national strategy, Saudi Arabia wants to become a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2030

    The NSDAI implementation will focus on the immediate national AI requirements until 2025. In this initial stage, the strategy concentrates on accelerating AI in five critical sectors: healthcare, mobility, education, government, and energy. From 2025 until 2030, Saudi Arabia will establish a competitive international AI ecosystem by developing areas of specialisms.