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  • How Saudi Arabia’s environmental leadership can help restart its economy

    The challenge seems daunting. One finding estimates that between 1990 to 2019, droughts affected more than 44 million people in our region, and natural disasters did almost $20 billion of damage to regional economies. Unchecked, these numbers will get worse. Just like pandemics, climate disasters do not respect national borders.

  • Saudi startup puts drone’s limitless abilities in our hands

    "Right now we are competing mainly with manual inspection, by that I mean two guys with a truck going up a crane and looking at something and deciding whether it needs to be fixed or not," Nasraldeen said, "by the time you do manual inspection for one spot for instance, we can do 50 with a drone."

  • Oil companies start to take back crude from U.S. emergency reserve

    Energy companies have begun taking back millions of barrels of oil from the U.S. government’s emergency stockpile after renting storage in the facility to help manage a glut of crude this spring after energy demand collapsed during COVID-19 lockdowns, a Department of Energy website showed on Monday.

  • State Department says Pompeo cleared in emergency Saudi arms sale

    A final report signed by the acting inspector general found that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not violate the law when he declared a state of emergency to bypass congressional refusal to approve an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said Monday. Describing an ongoing congressional investigation of Pompeo’s action as an “inquisition,” a department statement called for lawmakers to “publicly accept the findings of the report . . . and immediately retract” statements labeling it illegal.

  • Saudi Arabia approves policy on Artificial Intelligence, expects $133b windfall by 2030

    It was in August last year that the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) was set up by a Royal Decree. The entity oversees the National Data Management Office, the National Information Center, and the National Center for Artificial Intelligence.

  • Brian Hook, the State Department’s point man on Iran policy, is stepping down

    Brian Hook, the State Department’s point man on Iran policy, is stepping down on the eve of an administration effort to persuade an unwilling U.N. Security Council to extend the expiring conventional weapons ban on Tehran. In a statement announcing his departure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described it as Hook’s decision. He did not offer a reason, but praised Hook for achieving “historic results countering the Iran regime.“ “Following a transition period,” Pompeo said, the Iran portfolio would be taken over by Elliot Abrams, the administration’s special envoy for Venezuela, who would hold both jobs.

  • Poll: About three quarters support bringing troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan

    About three-quarters of U.S. adults say they support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan in a new poll commissioned by the libertarian Charles Koch Institute obtained exclusively by The Hill. In the poll, which surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults, 44 percent said they strongly support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and 30 percent said they somewhat support doing so.

  • A $433 Billion Missed Opportunity Haunts Canada’s Oil Heartland

    Back in 1976, Alberta’s government established a special fund to save some of its oil and gas revenue for leaner times when prices dropped or resources ran dry. For decades, royalties poured into Alberta’s coffers, with the gusher accelerating in the boom of the early 2000s as the province developed its vast oil-sands reserves, the world’s third-largest oil resource. But successive governments failed to stick to the savings plan. Today, as weak oil prices upend economies around the world, Alberta is confronting its own painful regrets. Had it set aside more during oil’s boom, Alberta could have had a C$575 billion ($433 billion) wealth fund to cushion the blows of Covid-19, according to one economist’s estimates.

  • Native American stone tool technology unearthed in Yemen, Oman

    Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. When the stone tools were first unearthed, researchers suspected there was something familiar about them. Scientists took note of the flute-like grooves texturing the sides of the stone points.

  • UAE Taps Space Diplomacy for Earthly Benefits

    The global space industry is currently valued at about US$350 billion and expected to inch towards US$1 trillion by 2040, with private sector involvement. Further, with a market value of US$30 billion, about 6,000 small satellites may be launched globally by 2030. To tap this investment, research and collaboration potential, the UAE passed a federal law on regulation of the space sector in 2018.