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  • Alinma Bank, Foodics sign strategic partnership to empower SMBs in Saudi

    Under this partnership, the two brands have come together to launch new products to enable small business owners to have full autonomy over their business decisions, allowing them to sell from anywhere at any time and accept payments on the go. This will allow them to maximise their sales and their productivity, while keeping track of their sales figures, inventory and customers.

  • Opinion: Reema Bandar Al-Saud – A New Shape for US-Saudi Relations

    As my nation develops, so too, must the U.S.-Saudi partnership. And that is why the upcoming visit by President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia is so pivotal. For our relationship to deliver peace and prosperity for both of our peoples and the wider world, we must redefine the contours of the next eight decades of this critical alliance.

  • Protesters abandon seized palace with Sri Lanka in limbo; Rajapaksa’s final destination may be Saudi Arabia

    It was not immediately clear what Rajapaksa’s final destination would be. The official initially indicated he planned to travel onward to Saudi Arabia, but later could only confirm his first stop in Singapore, where the plane believed to be carrying him landed Thursday evening.

  • Expanding West Bank settlements test Biden visit: Video

    Largely out of the public eye, Israeli settlements are expanding across the occupied West Bank, raising Palestinian fears of displacement, and posing a test for U.S. opposition to such building ahead of President Joe Biden's visit this week. Emma Jehle reports.

  • Lebanon: Family dispute apparent motive of Saudi dissident’s murder, security source says

    The murder of a Saudi dissident in Lebanon appears to be motivated by a family dispute, a security source has told Middle East Eye. Manea al-Yami was stabbed to death on Saturday in his home in Harek Hreik in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut, an area under the security control of Hezbollah.

  • Balance between Saudi bank deposits and loans turns negative for the first time since at least 2013

    Growth in Saudi banks’ aggregate credit to the private and public sectors slipped  to 14.1 percent in May year-on-year, down from 14.7 percent in April, the most recent data from the Saudi Central Bank revealed. As for banks’ deposits, the rate of annual growth also slowed to 8.9 percent in May versus 9.4 percent in April. In absolute terms, the difference between the deposits and credit turned negative for the first time at least since 2013, according to data compiled by Arab News.

  • Saudi dissident killed in Lebanon, opposition party says

    Lebanon's internal security forces said a 42-year-old Saudi citizen had been stabbed to death by his two brothers in a family dispute on Saturday, without publishing the victim's name. It said that security forces had arrested the two brothers on Sunday and that they had confessed to the killing. A Lebanese security source confirmed to Reuters that the victim of the stabbing was Manea al-Yami.

  • Saudi Arabia lifts COVID-19 travel restrictions for Lebanon: Ambassador

    Saudi Arabia has dropped COVID-19 restrictions for passengers travelling from Lebanon, the Kingdom’s ambassador the Middle Eastern country announced on Twitter on Thursday. Saudi ambassador Walid bin Abdullah Bukhari said that the Kingdom had announced that Lebanese citizens will be allowed to travel directly in Saudi Arabia without having to spend 14 days outside Lebanon before entering the country.

  • U.S. pressed Lebanon to criticize Hezbollah for launching drones

    The Biden administration pressed the Lebanese government to criticize Hezbollah’s attempt to send drones to an Israeli natural gas rig in the Mediterranean and to commit to resolving the maritime border dispute with Israel only through negotiations, sources briefed on the issue told Axios.

  • United Arab Emirates set to run Kabul airport in deal with Taliban, sources say

    The Taliban and the United Arab Emirates are poised to strike a deal for the Gulf nation to run Kabul airport and several others in Afghanistan that could be announced within weeks, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. An agreement would help the Islamist militants ease their isolation from the outside world as they govern an impoverished country beset by drought, widespread hunger and economic crisis.