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  • Construction
    Saudi firm funding boat-shaped Tunisia hospital project

    Saudi Arabian investors Lalei Al Barakah Est. are backing a project to build a sailing boat-shaped hospital in Tunisia's new Economic City.

  • Cuisine in Jeddah
    Eating Out in Jeddah: Saudi Dining & Top Cultural Restaurants

    Jeddah, one of the most easygoing areas in Saudi Arabia, has a long history as an important centre for trade and cultural interchange. The city’s cuisine reflects this, blending the flavours of East and West to delicious effect. Jeddah’s restaurants, done out in elaborate Hijazi décor, make dining in the historic city a delight, so we’ve updated our Jeddah restaurant guide to bring you eight more unmissable venues in Saudi’s best culinary destination.

  • Iraq and Iraqis
    With the rise of Islamic State, Iraq is splintering along religious and ethnic lines

    In the wake of Islamic State’s rise, small religious minorities such as Christians and Yazidis — a group that draws from various religious traditions — have sought refuge in Kurdish areas. Some say they hope to flee the country, never to return. The people left behind in areas captured by the Islamic State will increasingly be “one color,” said Hamed al-Maliki, an Iraqi writer, meaning they will have the same Sunni beliefs and customs.

  • Iran Negotiations
    Iran’s UN demand emerges as hitch in nuclear talks

    Western diplomats said if a final nuclear deal is reached, the United States and European Union would quickly waive and then lift unilateral, proliferation-related economic sanctions on Iran that would provide a rapid windfall to Iran's economy. (However, the US trade embargo on Iran, enacted after Iran's 1979 seizure of the US embassy and hostage crisis, would remain in place, a senior US official said.) A new UN Security Council resolution outlining the deal and what steps all sides had agreed on would also be passed, western diplomat said.

  • Da'ish
    The Economist explains: The many names of ISIS (also known as IS, ISIL, SIC and Da’ish)

    There is a long history of pinning unpleasant-sounding names on unpleasant people. Rather as the term Nazi caught on in English partly because of its resonance with words such as "nasty", Da'ish rolls pleasurably off Arab tongues as a close cousin of words meaning to stomp, crush, smash into, or scrub. Picking up on this, France has officially adopted the term for government use, with its foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, explaining that Da'ish has the added advantage of not granting the group the dignity of being called a state.

  • Yemen Unrest
    Saudi Arabia warns Yemen violence could threaten global security

    In some of his strongest language about Yemen to date, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told the U.N. General Assembly that hopes for an end to the crisis had been wrecked by what he suggested was the Houthis' failure to honor the deal. "The lack of implementation of the security annexe of the agreement and the lack of implementation of the agreement itself in the required manner by the Houthi group has dashed these hopes," he said in a speech circulated by the Saudi mission at the United Nations in New York.

  • Power
    GCC electricity network set to expand trade opportunities

    Al-Neyadi said that GCC electricity network could save up to $1.8 billion in fuel operating costs if GCC energy exchange is activated. He added that the GCC grid had prevented over 1,072 incidents of power blackouts since 2009, through direct instantaneous transfer of required power across the grid, thus avoiding losses that could have been triggered due to full and partial interruptions.

  • US-Saudi
    CSUN student from Saudi Arabia who disappeared Sept. 18 remains missing

    Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi, 23, a full-time electrical engineering student at Cal State Northridge, was last seen about noon on Sept. 18 at his home in the 9900 block of Reseda Boulevard, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.

  • Arabs and Israel
    Kuwaiti Official Makes Jerusalem Pilgrimage

    Sheikh Sabah's move was a rare and high-profile breaking of the longstanding Arab boycott against visiting the iconic Mosque of Omar (also known as the Dome of the Rock) and the al-Aqsa Mosque, both of which sit on top of what Arabs call al-Haram al-Sharif and Jews and Christians refer to as the Temple Mount. Known visits by prominent Arabs to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount since 1967 can be counted on one hand: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1977, Egyptian foreign minister Amr Mousa in 1994, and Egypt's Grand Mufti and a Jordanian prince in 2012. As recently as May of this year, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal publicly declined an invitation to visit Jerusalem because it was under occupation -- though the offer came from his former Israeli counterpart, Amos Yadlin, with whom the prince was publicly debating regional issues, thereby breaking another Arab diplomatic convention.

  • Hamas and Fatah
    Hamas and Fatah agree unity government’s return to Gaza

    The terms of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended the 50-day Gaza conflict on 26 August require a Palestinian Authority presence in the territory. Hamas had to accept those terms in return for the promise of help with reconstruction. However, a Hamas official told the Associated Press that there were still disagreements over who should be responsible for paying civil servants in Gaza, and whether the PA's own security forces would be allowed a significant presence in the territory. He described the deal as "partial".