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  • Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve’s Integrated Development Management Plan launched

    The plan is a comprehensive roadmap in line with global standards, covering the environmental, economic, social, tourism, and cultural aspects of the 24,500 square kilometer Reserve, which includes 15 distinct ecosystems, ranging from mountain ridges to coral reefs in the northwest of the Kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

  • Saudi Arabia’s Abutaleb’s KO dashes Israel’s Olympic taekwondo hope

    Taekwondo Olympic medalist Abishag Semberg was left in tears after her defeat to Saudi Arabia’s Dunya Abutaleb in the women’s flyweight round of 16 in Paris on Wednesday. Abutaleb, the first Saudi woman to secure direct Olympic qualification, triumphed with scores of 2-6, 5-4 and 10-0. She sealed her victory with two head kicks and two body kicks in the decisive third round.

  • Adidas launches its partnership with Al-Nasr Saudi Club with an advertisement inspired by the game (Roblox)

    Adidas launched today the new kits of the Saudi Al-Nasr Club, according to the partnership signed between the two parties last February, which will last for three years, to become the global company’s sportswear brand, the official partner of the club starting from the 2024/2025 season, as “Adidas” will provide all teams and employees under the umbrella of Al-Nasr with the official uniform.

  • Saudi court overturns death sentence against retired teacher over posts on X

    A Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a former teacher over social media posts made from anonymous accounts with 10 followers, a UK-based human rights group has reported. Last July, the kingdom's Specialised Criminal Court gave Mohammed al-Ghamdi the death sentence over tweets, including some which focused on unemployment and calling for the release of political prisoners. On Wednesday, Sanad, a UK-based group advocating for Ghamdi, said it had learned from sources inside the kingdom that the Court of Appeal had cancelled the sentence.

  • Saudi Takes 2 Million Photos of Neom in ‘Ground X’ Project to Build Investor Trust

    Saudi Arabia wants investors to know its ambitious Neom development is on track. Its effort is called “Ground X” and is meant to show live feeds of construction sites, project deadlines, and a “progress library” for each zone of Neom, including Sindalah, The Line and Trojena. The Ground X website is not open to the public and Skift was not able to review it.  But a public version of the website does give some details: It says it has installed 452 time-lapse cameras, 63 live cameras and more than 300 drone locations across Neom, capturing two million photos and 70,000 videos.

  • Saudi Arabia to host Halo space balloon test flight

    Halo Space, a Spanish company developing a stratospheric balloon for tourists is to conduct its next test flight in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this September. This test flight will be Halo Space’s sixth and use the company’s real-size prototype capsule, Aurora, which will ascend 30km above the Earth’s surface. The primary objective of the flight is to validate the integrated operation of all critical systems developed over the past three years.

  • Houthi presence in region in focus after ‘martyrdom’ of senior commander in Iraq

    A senior commander of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, better known as the Houthis, is claimed to have been killed in a US airstrike in Iraq. The apparent incident has fueled speculation about the Houthis expanding their role in the Iran-led ‘Axis of Resistance’ and pursuing horizontal integration with other members of the regional alliance network . As the region braces for an escalation in the confrontation between the ‘Axis of Resistance’ and Israel, the role of the Houthis in the equation is gaining increasing attention.

  • Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia reject US request to send peacekeepers to Gaza

    Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have rebuffed US requests to contribute troops to a post-war peacekeeping force in Gaza, an Arab official and a second source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel, the newspaper reports. According to the report, the dispatched troops would be seen to be “protecting Israel from the Palestinians”, the Arab official says, explaining the opposition of Amman, Doha and Riyadh to the effort being advanced by the US to secure Gaza after the war.

  • Saudi: New Fundraising Law to curb irregular fundraising practices and illicit financial activities

    The National Center for Non-Profit Sector (NCNPS) announced that the Fundraising Law, approved by the Saudi Cabinet on Tuesday, is designed to govern fundraising activities for non-profit organizations and the campaigns they undertake. The law aims to guarantee that donations are used for their designated purposes, and thus safeguarding non-profit organizations and donors from irregular fundraising practices and illicit financial activities.

  • Saudi Aramco Seeks More China Deals in Oil-to-Chemicals Push

    The world’s largest crude exporting company is targeting additional facilities that can turn oil into chemicals, Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said. Aramco sees demand for goods such as plastics outlasting the growth in consumption for gasoline and diesel amid the energy transition. “We are looking currently at a number of investments in China that will be announced in due course this year and next year,” Nasser said on an earning call Tuesday. He also mentioned South Korea and India as potential investment destinations.