- Mohammed Al-Jadaan highlights Kingdom’s shift from short-term budgets to longer-term fiscal planning, ensuring clear priorities and disciplined spending
- Transformation driven by clear decisions and significant investments led to strong economic performance, adds economic planning chief Faisal Al-Ibrahim
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- Middle East leaders at Davos emphasized the need for homegrown solutions, urging international partners to support—not impose—peace efforts in the region
- Discussions focused on addressing root causes of instability, with calls for sustainable peace, lifting sanctions, and preventing renewed violence in hotspots like the West Bank and northern Syria
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- Ahmed Aboul Gheit speaks at UN Security Council meeting on importance of UN-League relations amid rapidly evolving regional security, political and humanitarian challenges
- He warns that the current environment of ‘strategic global competition’ is hampering the council’s engagement on Arab issues
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- AI enhances weather predictions, improving forecasts for heatwaves and flash floods critical for Saudi Arabia’s climate adaptation efforts
- KAUST’s Center of Excellence for Generative AI focuses on Earth observation technologies to address climate challenges like water scarcity
- Since the start of the war the number of Palestinians in Israeli jails has doubled to more than 10,000
- Many prisoners are never told why they were detained
- Air pollution is caused by a combination of crop-related burning, industrial pollution and heavy traffic
- Weeks earlier, Vietnam’s capital Hanoi was ranked the world’s most polluted
- Kingdom has embarked on a transformation of traditionally industrial cities into modern smart cities, Bandar Alkhorayef tells World Economic Forum
- Nation’s businesses are increasingly adopting new technologies to help enhance productivity, he adds
- Teenager aims to educate the public about Kingdom’s vision
- Overcame public speaking fears to become podcaster
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Al-Ajrab Sword
Ajrab Sword stands as one of the most recognizable symbols of the Kingdom's history, and represents the courage, determination, and nobility of Imam Turki bin Abdullah who unified and restored the Second Saudi State in 1824.
Lama Al-Badin
Lama Al-Badin is an eight-year-old inventor from Saudi Arabia, who won an international competition for designing a pair of glasses that aim to help blind people navigate the world safely. The girl from the eastern city of Dammam bested nearly 1,000 entries from 19 countries in the “Glasses of the Future” competition.
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