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🚨 BlackRock strikes $11 billion Saudi natural gas deal.
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🚨 Saudi Arabia’s PIF writes $8 billion off value of flagship giga-projects.
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🚨 Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s decision to occupy the Gaza Strip and denounces its “persistence in committing crimes of starvation, brutal practices, and ethnic cleansing against the brotherly Palestinian people.” —Foreign ministry statement
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📈 Saudi GDP up 3.9% in Q2, driven by steady growth of non-oil sector and increased crude output —government flash estimates
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📉 Saudi stock market has been one of the worst performing in the world this year. Failure of new listings to match the stellar performance of debuts in 2023 and 2024 is raising doubts about the progress of economic diversification plans.
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💧 Saudi utilities giant ACWA Power controls more than a quarter of the desalinated water in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman and Bahrain. Now the company looks to bring its desalination tech to Central and East Asia, Africa and Southern Europe.
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Saudi Arabia pledges $6 billion of investments in Syria, a show of support after sectarian violence broke out in Sweida last week.
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🚨 US tech giant Apple launches direct-to-consumer online sales in Saudi Arabia today. The company is expected to open its first physical store in the kingdom next year.
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Saudi Arabia is set to participate in Intervision, the music contest launched by Putin after Russia was banned from Eurovision over the war in Ukraine.
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Merlin Mann: “The real ‘zero’ in Inbox Zero is more about consciously managing the amount of our attention that we commit (or, far more often, cede) to thinking and worrying about what may or may not be piling up while we’re away doing the real work of our lives.”
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🚨 Saudi Arabia welcomes measures by Syrian government to achieve security and stability, condemns Israeli attacks on Syrian territories —foreign ministry statement
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🚨 ACWA Power-led consortium signs $8.3 billion deal to build 15GW solar and wind farms in Saudi Arabia as the kingdom accelerates its renewables push.
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🚨 Saudi food delivery app Jahez acquires Qatari rival Snoonu in $234 million deal.
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Saudi defence minister Prince Khalid bin Salman secretly met with Trump and other senior US officials in the White House on Thursday to discuss de-escalation efforts with Iran, according to Fox News sources.
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🚨 New by me on how the 12-day war changed Saudi Arabia’s regional calculations: a weaker Iran and more belligerent Israel make normalisation less likely.
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The recent flood of fake football highlights on YouTube came from.. Egyptian content makers.
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🚨 Saudi Aramco and Adnoc slow $60 billion acquisition spree as oil prices fall.
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No learnings. The word is lessons.
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🚨 Gulf states warn against outbreak of wider conflict in region.
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🚨 Saudi airports urge travellers to check with airlines affected by airspace closures as many pilgrims are still in the process of leaving the kingdom after the conclusion of hajj.
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UN conference hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to promote two-state solution postponed after Israel’s attack on Iran.
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Saudi Arabia will send two rare Arabian leopards to the US National Zoo in Washington.
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🕋 My latest: Saudi Arabia plans for safer Hajj as more than 1 million pilgrims arrive.
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Can the Gulf really become an AI superpower?
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