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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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🚨 Israel launches attack on Hamas in Doha. Qatar condemns “cowardly” targeting of residential buildings.
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🚨 My latest story: Saudi small-town brands are going national as economic reforms and SMEs support start to pay off.
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🎮 Saudi-backed Savvy Games Group is looking to China and other Asian markets for its next multibillion-dollar deal.
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🚨 My latest story: Saudi Arabia’s financial hub finally takes shape as KAFD comes to life.
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🇷🇺 Gulf tourists are flocking to Russia as the country deepens its ties with the region after years of western sanctions.
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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.
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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.
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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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