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Also new from Chloe Cornish and me 🇰🇼 Kuwait’s government defends the policy of revoking citizenship from more than 42,000 people after suspending the region’s only parliament last year. “Only God knows where Kuwait would be if we waited any longer,” interior minister said.
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🚨 New from me: Saudi box office earnings appear to have plateaued since 2022, but filmmakers are hopeful that local movies still have room to grow.
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PIF and PwC clashed over the firm’s attempt to hire Neom’s chief internal audit officer.
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🚨 Saudi Aramco profits down 12% in 2024. Company to pay total dividend of just over $85 billion, compared with $124 billion in the previous year.
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🚨 New by me: Saudi Arabia quietly steps up releases of political prisoners.
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Investors told of golden age of US-Saudi co-operation at Miami conference.
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🚨 New from me — Saudi Arabia launches ferocious state media attack on Netanyahu
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🚨 My latest — Syria’s new leader visits Saudi Arabia in sign of regional power shift.
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My latest: Saudi Arabia aims to invest $600 billion in the US, crown prince tells Trump during congratulatory phone call.
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🚨 My latest story: Saud housing minister acknowledges that soaring property prices in Riyadh have become a “concern” for the government, but says more supply is coming into the market to address the issue.
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🚨 Saudi Aramco to expand investments in lithium production in the race to build a supply chain for the metal vital for batteries to power electric cars as the kingdom seeks to become an EV manufacturing hub.
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Around the Syrian capital Damascus, stores are now lined with Turkish bottled water, Saudi-produced bouillon cubes, Lebanese powdered milk and western chocolate brands such as Twix and Snickers. In one supermarket, an entire wall was dedicated to Pringles.
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Rainy weather across the kingdom this week (SPA)
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🚨 My latest story: 2034 World Cup award adds more pressure to Saudi Arabia’s construction challenge.
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“As viewers are funnelled towards content they will like, fame has been atomised. It is possible to have a hundred million online fans and still be unrecognisable to people in your home town.”
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🚨 My latest: Syrian delegation visits Saudi Arabia for first foreign trip since ousting of Bashar al-Assad.
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