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  • King Salman
    How will the new King Salman change Saudi Arabia?

    He is also the family disciplinarian. When Saudi princes and princesses got into trouble, Khaled Almaeena says, it was Prince Salman who would quietly sort things out.

     

  • Saudi-Egypt
    Saudi Arabia’s Egypt stance ‘unchangeable’

    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has expressed Saudi Arabia’s close bond with Egypt in a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Everything Has Changed: Oil, Saudi Arabia, and the End of OPEC

    The ramifications of this decision across the globe, not just in energy markets, but politically, are already having consequences for the global landscape.  Lost in the effort to understand the vast implications is an even more important signal sent by Saudi Arabia, the owner of more than 16% of the world’s proved oil reserves, about its view of the future of fossil fuels.

  • Tadawul Opening
    Saudi Arabia to Allow Foreign Investment in Changed Markets

    Saudi Arabia faces some unexpected marketing challenges as it opens its stock market to foreign investment.

  • Japan and Terrorism
    How an ISIS Beheading Might Change Japan

    For Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party did well in regional elections in December, the crisis with the Islamic State presents Japan with a dilemma. Since assuming the country’s top office, Abe has supported removing Article 9 of Japan’s constitution, a pacifist measure that has guided Japanese foreign policy since World War II. The prime minister has argued that the clause has become anachronistic in a world where China, a longtime adversary, has greatly improved its military capacity. Following the elections in December, Defense Minister Gen Nakatami explained the rationale.

  • Saudi Foreign Policy
    Will Royal Succession Change Saudi Arabian Role?

    Under Abdullah, Saudi  Arabia matured as a regional power and assumed new commitment, making it harder to revert to an era of backroom diplomacy, the export of piety and the soft power of petrodollars. What’s not yet clear is whether Salman will continue on that road or make subtle but significant changes.

  • Saudi Oil Policy
    Saudi Arabia’s New King Probably Will Not Change Current Oil Policy

    King Salman, Saudi Arabia’s new ruler, will keep Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi in his post, bolstering expectations that he will continue the policy of maintaining crude output to preserve market share even as prices have plunged.

  • Saudi TV
    Saudi Television must change: Al-Khodairy

    Saudi Television is not a charitable society, said Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Al-Khodairy on Sunday, demanding quality TV programs to change the perception about the state television.

  • Women Driving
    Young, smart and driving for change in Saudi Arabia

    They may not be taking to public spaces any more, owing to the political and military crackdown on them, but it would be wrong to assume the Arab people, especially the young, are happy about the status quo. After all, they are more educated, entrepreneurial, cosmopolitan, and hyperconnected than any previous generation, and they will not become complacent while being subjected to bad policies.

  • Climate Summit - Lima
    Lima climate change talks reach global warming agreement

    International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, agreed at United Nations talks on Sunday, was hailed as an important first step towards a climate change deal due to be finalised in Paris next year. The proposals call on countries to reveal how they will cut carbon pollution, ideally by March next year.