President claims there are 5 Middle East ‘definites’ and a similar number who are ‘pretty much’ ready to open diplomatic relations. US President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a day of campaign rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, October 27, 2020. (Evan Vucci/AP)…
Senior defense official says the kingdom could be next to ‘come out of the closet,’ amid reports that Jewish state on verge of normalizing relations with Sudan. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press…
Smoke billows following an airstrike by Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa earlier this month – Getty Images The US and Saudi governments have made a joint public appeal to the UN Security Council to extend the 13-year old arms embargo on Iran or risk a renewed arms race in the Middle East. “Iran…
While Jordan had strongly objected to any change in the makeup of the Waqf, in recent months their stance changed after Turkey became involved in east Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Palestinians pray on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ‘pained’ that the holy month comes amid strict precautionary measures. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque on a beautiful sunny day on the first day of Ramadan. Victor Besa / The National The coronavirus pandemic has left mosques around the world empty on the first day of Ramadan as strict restrictions have…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Behind a Saudi-Russian truce to stabilize oil markets with a record output cut, market players are seeing the two production heavyweights still trading blows in the physical market. It is here, rather than in the world of futures prices, that a long-standing battle for market share carries on, particularly in Asia, shipping…
In a rare televised address, the health minister said some people were not taking the danger of infection seriously. The coronavirus could eventually infect between 10,000 and 200,000 people in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s health minister has said, urging the public to adhere more closely to state directives against mixing and movement. The country of some 30…
Saad Abdulla al-Kuwari As is customary, Opec is supposed to reach its 60th year this year, and perhaps it will not celebrate this event as expected, this year. The reason is Saudi Arabia’s decision to reduce and discount the price of selling oil and increase its production after Russia refused to reduce its oil production….
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia never sought a sharp oil price fall or an end to cooperation with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the Gulf nations are to blame for the crisis on the global oil markets, a senior Russian official said. In early March, Russia and OPEC failed to agree on how…
Greetings from Tyler, Did you hear about the elderly man in Italy who was in isolation with his wife for fourteen days? He died. She strangled him. (That’s a joke, maybe a bad one.) Or is laughing outlawed too? Never before in American history have we seen anything like the “lock-down” going on across America…