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✈️ Saudi Arabia is spending $1 trillion over 10 years to make tourism a pillar of a diversified economy away from dependence on oil revenues. My long read on how the kingdom’s tourism revolution is unfolding will run in HTSI magazine this weekend
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☎️ Saudi Arabia will not allow its airspace or territory to be used for military actions against Iran, Crown Prince tells Pezeshkian in telephone call —SPA
24 days ago
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🚨 FT scoop — Neom review nears completion:
The Line to be redesigned
, region to shift focus to “industrial” sectors including AI data centres.
27 days ago
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🚨 Saudi media
steps up attacks on UAE
as Gulf rift deepens.
about 1 month ago
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Unpacking some old boxes and found these two issues of Newsweek’s Arabic edition from more 20 years ago on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq.
about 1 month ago
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🚨 Trump Organization announces
golf course and hotel in Diriyah
in first collaboration with PIF-owned company.
about 1 month ago
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🎢 My latest story: Saudi Arabia opens
$1 billion Six Flags theme park in Qiddiya
as the kingdom pushes ahead with megaprojects.
about 1 month ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia
accuses
UAE of smuggling out Yemeni separatist leader.
about 1 month ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia launches new air strikes on southern Yemen as
STC leader fails to travel to Riyadh
for talks aimed at ending the crisis.
about 2 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia launches
air strike on Yemen’s Mukalla port
, accuses UAE of “pressuring” separatist southern group to conduct military operations on the kingdom’s borders.
about 2 months ago
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Saudi complaints over social security benefits lead to arrests and fines:
https://blog.alomran.me/2025/12/29/saudi-complaints-over-social-security.html
about 2 months ago
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Saudi complaints over social security benefits lead to arrests and fines:
https://blog.alomran.me/2025/12/29/saudi-complaints-over-social-security.html
about 2 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia calls moves by Yemen’s STC “unjustified escalation”, urges the group to withdraw forces from seized provinces —foreign ministry statement.
about 2 months ago
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“While Saudi’s reinvention has left scars, in the form of budget overruns and scaled-back projects, the country has breezed through its own 2030 target and is set to
generate an estimated 57 per cent of economic output from non-oil activities
this year.”
about 2 months ago
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Saudi writer Ahmed Abodehman dies at age 76. He was known for his semi-autobiographical novel “La Ceinture”, first published in French by Gallimard in 2000.
2 months ago
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Saudi Arabia plans
expanding access to alcohol
with two more liquor stores in Jeddah and Dhahran catering to non-Muslim diplomats and Premium Residency holders.
3 months ago
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🚨 Saudi AI firm Humain leads
$900 million funding round
in US video startup Luma AI.
3 months ago
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🚨 US and Saudi Arabia reach deal for
rare earths facility in the kingdom
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3 months ago
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🚨 Trump says he will approve
unprecedented sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
during the crown prince visit to the White House today. Other deals covering defence, AI and nuclear energy also on the agenda.
3 months ago
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🚨 Saudi royal court confirms that the crown prince has traveled to the US. Talks with Trump to focus on bilateral relations and issues of common concern,
statement
says.
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سياسي / الديوان الملكي: بناءً على توجيه خادم الحرمين الشريفين واستجابة للدعوة المقدمة لسمو ولي العهد من الرئيس الأمريكي فقد غادر سموه متوجهًا إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في زيارة عمل رسمية
الرياض 26 جمادى الأولى 1447 هـ الموافق 17 نوفمبر 2025 م واس صدر عن الديوان الملكي اليوم البيان التالي: "بيان من الديوان الملكي" بناءً على توجيه خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود -حفظه الله-، واستجابة للدعوة المقدمة لصاحب السمو الملكي الأمير محمد بن سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ولي العهد رئيس مجلس الوزراء -حفظه الله- من فخامة رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية / دونالد ترمب، فقد غادر سموه -بحفظ الله ورعايته- اليوم الاثنين 26 / 5 / 1447هـ الموافق 17 / 11 / 2025م، متوجهًا إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، في زيارة عمل رسمية يلتقي خلالها بفخامة رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية / دونالد ترمب، لبحث العلاقات الثنائية وسبل تعزيزها في مختلف المجالات، ومناقشة القضايا ذات الاهتمام المشترك. حفظ الله سموه في سفره وإقامته. // انتهى // 18:35 ت مـ 0172
https://www.spa.gov.sa/N2446600
3 months ago
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Trump’s family business and its Saudi partner Dar Global unveil plan for
luxury Maldives resort that uses blockchain technology
to attract investment.
3 months ago
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My latest story: Saudi
PIF cuts US equity holdings
to $19.4 billion in Q3, down from $23.8 billion in Q2 as the fund exits positions in 9 companies, including Visa and Pinterest.
3 months ago
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Saudi women sign up for
belly dancing classes
at fitness studios — an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret.
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Saudi belly dancers break taboos behind closed doors
In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret.In Arab communities, belly dancing has played many roles.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/saudi-belly-dancers-break-taboos-022000312.html
3 months ago
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Saudi Aramco
steps up gas push
to power fleets of AI data centres, new industrial hubs and fast-growing cities.
3 months ago
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FT visual investigation: How the laws of physics and finance hampered
The Line
of Neom.
4 months ago
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🚨 Saudi king appoints Sheikh Salih al-Fawzan as the kingdom’s Grand Mufti —royal decree
4 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia in talks with US for
defence pact
ahead of the crown prince’s visit to the White House next month.
4 months ago
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🚨 My latest: Western cultural institutions are
re-embracing Saudi Arabia
as their quest for fresh funding and expansion aligns with the kingdom’s ambitions to grow its art and culture sectors as part of wider economic diversification plans.
5 months ago
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🚨 “The glory days are over”: consultants in Saudi Arabia
curb expansion plans
as the kingdom reviews its priorities.
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi real estate developer to
build $1 billion Trump-branded project
in Jeddah.
5 months ago
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🚨 My latest: How the Saudi crown prince
irreversibly changed the relationship
between the state and the kingdom’s religious establishment.
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia
freezes Riyadh rents for 5 years
as property costs soar.
5 months ago
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🇸🇦 Our latest long read: Can Vision 2030
uplift Saudi Arabia’s rural areas
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5 months ago
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🚨 Scoop: Saudi Arabia to
shift management of Sindalah island
from Neom to Red Sea Global after delayed opening.
5 months ago
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PwC culls jobs of
60 partners and 1,500 staff
in the Middle East after Saudi clash.
5 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign
strategic defence
pact.
5 months ago
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🔝 This is the most-read story on FT right now >>
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🚨 My latest story: Saudi authorities shut down two dozen music “lounges” in recent weeks over violations to public health and hygiene codes, but their existence has been
controversial for years
as conservatives see them as signs of the rapid decay of morals and social norms.
5 months ago
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Google Pay finally
launches
in Saudi Arabia. China’s Alipay+ expected to arrive
next year
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5 months ago
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🚨 Qatar calls for “concrete steps” against Israel at
Arab-Islamic summit in Doha
after the missile strikes.
5 months ago
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🇸🇦 New Saudi riyal sign, first revealed in February, has now been officially
added
to the latest Unicode Standard, Version 17.0.
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Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement
Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 17.0 The Unicode Standard is the foundation for all global digital communications, providing the e...
https://blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unicode-170-release-announcement.html
5 months ago
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🚨 Israel
launches
attack on Hamas in Doha. Qatar condemns “cowardly” targeting of residential buildings.
6 months ago
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🚨 My latest story: Saudi
small-town brands are going national
as economic reforms and SMEs support start to pay off.
6 months ago
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🎮 Saudi-backed Savvy Games Group is
looking to China and other Asian markets
for its next multibillion-dollar deal.
6 months ago
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🚨 My latest story: Saudi Arabia’s
financial hub finally takes shape
as KAFD comes to life.
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Saudi Arabia’s financial hub finally takes shape
A glittering ghost town no longer: Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District is filling up
https://www.ft.com/content/60910cab-ff11-40a8-ab4e-c9a3d56c7c71
6 months ago
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🇷🇺 Gulf tourists are
flocking to Russia
as the country deepens its ties with the region after years of western sanctions.
6 months ago
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🚨 FT Exclusive: BCG leaders face
backlash from lucrative Middle East business
over Gaza aid work; CEO town hall meeting to ease tensions appeared to backfire as staff walked out in anger.
6 months ago
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🚨 Delays to Saudi Arabia’s snow mountain in Neom’s Trojena put the 2029 Asian Winter Games at risk. Officials discussed approaching S Korea or China about
relocating the games
and instead holding the subsequent edition in the kingdom four years later.
6 months ago
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🚨 BlackRock strikes
$11 billion Saudi natural gas deal
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6 months ago
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🚨 Saudi Arabia’s PIF
writes $8 billion off value
of flagship giga-projects.
6 months ago
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