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  • Total forms joint venture with Zahid for C&I solar deployment in Saudi Arabia

    French oil major Total and industrial conglomerate Zahid Group have established a joint venture (JV) focused on distributed solar generation for Saudi Arabia’s commercial and industrial (C&I) sector.

  • Iran and U.S. Get Time for Diplomacy as Atomic Censure Withdrawn

    A resolution rebuking Iran over its lack of cooperation with monitors won’t be tabled this week at the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency’s board is wrapping up a week of meetings in the Austrian capital that focused on Iran’s stepped up production of nuclear fuel and stalled inquiries into the presence of uranium particles at undeclared sites.

  • Explosion strikes Israeli-owned ship in Mideast amid tension

    An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The crew and vessel were safe, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by the British navy. The explosion forced the vessel to head to the nearest port.

  • Biden’s Nominee for CIA, William J. Burns, Set to Trade Diplomacy for Spycraft

    As the first career foreign service officer chosen to run the Central Intelligence Agency, he faces a different sort of challenge: guiding a spy agency that, former top intelligence officials say, finds itself at a pivot point. The widely respected Mr. Burns, 64, is expected to win easy approval as President Biden’s CIA director following his confirmation hearing scheduled Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

  • Commentary: What’s Behind the UAE’s “Shuffle” Diplomacy?

    The diverging priorities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai have given the UAE room to maneuver, and, increasingly, elements of the two emirates’ specific approaches are being consolidated within a unified strategy.

  • Saudi unemployment rate down to 14.9% in Q3 2020

    The unemployment rate among Saudis decreased to 14.9 percent in Q3 2020 from 15.4 percent in Q2 2020, compared to 11.8 percent in Q1 2020, according to data from the Saudi General Authority for Statistics. In addition, unemployment rate among males and females stood at 7.9 percent and 30.2 percent, respectively in the same period.

  • Top UAE, Israeli diplomats recall their nations’ long road to peace

    Earlier this month, Al Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador in Washington since 2008, and Issacharoff, Israel’s envoy to Germany since 2017, discussed their two nations’ friendship—as well as their own—for nearly an hour. Their online conversation was hosted by Eliot A. Cohen, dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS and moderated by Eric Edelman, former US ambassador to Finland and Turkey.

  • Yemen’s Houthis on Offensive in Bid to Gain Diplomatic Leverage

    The Houthi offensive that began earlier this month to seize Marib province, some 120 kilometers east of the capital, Sana’a, has met stiff resistance from troops of Yemen’s internationally recognized government. Marib is its last stronghold. Observers say the Houthis, a Zaydi Shi’ite movement fighting the Sunni Muslim-majority government, want to wrest control of Marib and its oil fields as well as close off Saudi Arabia’s southern border to give them leverage in possible peace talks. But they are also suffering heavy casualties.

  • Saudi Space Commission Reviews Plans for Exploration Missions to Mars, Moon

    The Saudi Space Commission is reviewing the track of work put into sending exploratory missions to both the Moon and Mars. Concerned authorities in the kingdom have prepared several programs for building national cadres and expanding investment in the space field. Commission Chairman Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz announced that the agency completed all stages of its establishment and concluded many partnerships and agreements both locally and internationally.

  • Saudi Arabia extends 5G deployment to 51 cities and provinces

    CITC’s quarterly “Meqyas” report for internet speeds and digital content access speed revealed that Zain is top of the list of the spread of 5G services in the Kingdom, covering 44 cities and provinces, followed by the Saudi Telecom Company STC in 22 and finally Mobily in 21 cities and provinces.