By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries. The announcement early Sunday by the state-run Saudi
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries. The announcement early Sunday by the state-run Saudi
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Joe Biden's national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries. The announcement by the state-run Saudi Press Agency comes as the strategic deal had []
(JNS) – The White House reiterated on Saturday that any Saudi-U.S. defense agreement would include Israel normalization, against the backdrop of a report last week that the two issues could be decoupled. Speaking at the Financial Times Weekend Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told FT journalist Edward […]
In a bid to improve the bi-lateral relationship between both countries, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari,
Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservativesIn September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of Saudi Arabia, staying with a friend near the Bahrain border, when her phone rang. As soon as she heard the male voice on the other end of the line, she realised that...
Saudis are keen to end their engagement in Yemen and US needs Saudi support to end Gaza conflictUS determination to keep Saudi Arabia engaged in a peace process with Israel has led Washington to give Riyadh an informal green light to try to revive a peace deal with the Houthis, the Yemen-based rebels who have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November.The proposed Yemen UN roadmap for peace was agreed in outline in early December but progress was immediately frozen as the...
It’s been close to a year since the PGA Tour made a fairly shocking announcement concerning a plan to accept an investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and merge with LIV Golf. However, there hasn’t been any major progress on that front in the wake of the news, and it seems like the deal […]
The world should be investing in making existing cities sustainable and just at a human scale – not pouring money into speculative, unsustainable projects.
There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the private sector from Brasilia to Islamabad. More recently, two trends have come together in a new wave of visionary urban planning. On the one hand, there are the neoliberal “special economic zone” policies that accelerated in the 1980s and which have become an almost unquestioned global economic article of faith. On the other, there is the “smart city” in which ubiquitous sensing and surveillance generate big data,...
Having lost his opponent for next month’s UFC Fight Night in Saudi Arabia, Sharabutdin Magomedov is calling for the man responsible to fill in. Magomedov made his debut as a highly touted, undefeated prospect last October at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi. The 29-year-old Dagestani was handed a tough assignment in his first Octagon outing, sharing the cage with established middleweight veteran Bruno Silva. While he was taken to the scorecards for only the second time in his professional mixed martial arts...
A powder-white Rolls Royce Corniche barrels through the plains of the Mexican desert and onto the grounds of a fortress that wouldn’t be out of place on Narcos. The driver emerges, in a crisp suit that matches his whip’s pearly exterior, his cowboy boots crunching on gravel, ominous case in hand. It’s a scene that could be the intro to any Future video, right before he launches into a commanding barrage of stylized mob-boss bars. Only it’s clear from the jump that we are not in familiar...