Saudi Arabia has begun allowing adult women to travel without permission and to exercise more control over family matters, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday, following a flurry of royal decrees approving the changes.
Riyadh has long faced (...)
Yemen's southern separatists withdrew on Saturday from some governmental buildings they had seized in Aden last week, but they kept camps giving them control of the southern port of Yemen, where the Saudi-backed government is located.
Last week, the (...)
Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurgahda, and Alexandria are to witness a growth of 11%, 39%, 29%, and 27%, respectively year-over-year (y-o-y) in revenues per available rooms (RevPAR), Colliers International said in its latest MENA Hotels Forecast report (...)
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are looking to invest in infrastructure projects in Lebanon after ties have recovered, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said in comments from his office on Friday.
Hariri, on a visit to Washington, (...)
Tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in Aden on Thursday in support of separatist forces who took over the southern port, the temporary seat of Yemen's Saudi-backed government, in a move that exposed rifts in an Arabic military coalition.
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The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Aden on Sunday in support of the internationally-recognized government of Yemen after southern separatists effectively took over the port city, fracturing the alliance that had been battling the Iran-aligned (...)
UAE's Arad Real Estate Investment and Development (ARAD) targets various investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, it chairman Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi said on Monday.
The company hopes to launch its first project in the kingdom in the (...)
Several soccer governing bodies and rights holders issued a joint statement on Wednesday to collectively condemn what they called the theft of their intellectual property by channel beoutQ, which carried pirated broadcasts of global sports events to (...)
The head of an official Sudanese investigation said on Saturday 87 people were killed when security forces broke up a protest on June 3, a figure that prompted demonstrations across the capital as opponents of Sudan's military rulers dismissed it as (...)
The U.S. Senate will vote within days on whether to override President Donald Trump's vetoes of legislation to block the sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on (...)
Saudi Arabia's Economic City Authority (ECA) has partnered with Virgin Hyperloop One to conduct a study for building a test and certification hyperloop track, which is to be the longest worldwide, the California-based transportation firm said.
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The acting U.S. defense secretary has authorized the deployment of U.S. military personnel and resources to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Friday, adding the move would provide "an additional deterrent" in the face of "emergent, credible (...)
The Houthi militia in Yemen said it launched on Wednesday a drone attack Jizan airport, at the west of Saudi Arabia, as part of its operations against the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Yahya Sarea, spokesperson of the Houthi movement, said that the (...)
U.S. Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie said on Thursday it was talking to other countries about freedom of navigation in the Gulf and will work "aggressively" to find a solution to enable free passage.
McKenzie was talking to reporters (...)
The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) will conclude a building capacity project in collaboration with the Saudi National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) on Thursday.
The ACA's project with Nazaha aims to launch a training project entitled (...)
Saudi Arabia will "extend a hand of support to Lebanon", Lebanese former Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday after meeting Saudi King Salman.
The king "stressed the necessity of preserving Lebanon and soon there will be Saudi steps towards (...)
Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, and Alexandria are to witness a growth of 11%, 39%, 29%, and 27% respectively year-over-year (y-o-y) in revenues per available rooms (RevPAR), Colliers International said in its latest MENA Hotels Forecast report in (...)
Egypt's real estate developers and marketers see organising the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in the country as a good opportunity to export properties to African countries.
Egypt has achieved great success in organising the AFCON and dazzled the (...)
OPEC agreed on Monday to extend production cuts by nine months after several members of the Middle East-dominated producer group endorsed a policy designed to support oil prices amid a weakening global economy.
The deal is subject to approval from (...)
Ahead of a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies in Vienna, the most important oil producers there are indicating there is likely to be an extension of a plan to curb oil production.
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Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh believes "unilateralism" among some OPEC members could ultimately lead to the death of the Middle East-dominated oil producer bloc.
OPEC will debate an extension of oil production cuts when it meets on Monday, (...)
OPEC and its allies look to extend oil supply cuts until the end of the year as Iran joined top producers; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Russia in endorsing a policy aiming to propping up crude price amid a weakening global economy.
Iranian Oil Minister (...)
Yemen's Houthi movement launched multiple drone attacks targeting the Jizan airport in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen, a tweet on Sunday by the group's TV Al-Masirah said.
The attacks targeted Saudi drone bunkers and stations in the (...)
Loose cannon or influential statesman – what kind of British prime minister would Boris Johnson make on the world stage? Judging by his time as foreign secretary, possibly both.
When Johnson was given the foreign job in 2016, after Britain voted to (...)
The Trump administration pursued on Wednesday to win support for an economic plan it says will be a basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace but which Palestinians and many other Arabs dismiss as pointless without a political solution to the decades-old (...)
