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KSA can help revive UN’s mandate

  • The just-concluded visit of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif to New York as head of the Saudi delegation to the 71st session of the UN General Assembly came at a time when the Kingdom is facing serious challenges on several fronts in its long relationship with the US.We have been the Americans’...
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Strengthening Saudi-China ties

  • The ongoing official visit of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to China is a sign of the growing importance of our relations with that Asian powerhouse.The Kingdom is already the largest provider of crude oil to the booming Chinese economy. China imports about 1.07 million barrels of oil a...
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Another round of Muslim-bashing

  • The horrific attack in Nice, France, on Friday in which more than 80 people were killed, and more than 200 injured, after a terrorist drove a truck through Bastille Day crowds, sweeping right and left to hit more victims, has left the whole world in shock.The driver of the truck has been...
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Determined for post-oil future

  • If you read only the western press, you would assume that Saudi Arabia was to blame for all the problems in this world. The Orlando massacre is supposedly the fault of the Kingdom because the shooter Omar Mateen visited Saudi Arabia twice to perform Umrah. Of course, no one bothers to point out...
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An assertive KSA is in regional interest

  • The Saudi Arabia that US President Barack Obama witnessed on his official visit to Riyadh to attend the 2nd GCC-US summit, is one that is undergoing profound change, just as the Saudi-US relationship is changing too.With oil prices down substantially from two years ago, when they hit more than ...
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Fostering Arab unity

  • The ongoing state visit by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to Egypt is emblematic of the importance of what are today the two most central countries of the Arab world. Egypt with nearly 93 million citizens is the most populous Arab country, with the largest military in the region,...
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Allowing youth in malls

  • I was extremely happy to read on Friday that Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal ordered lifting the ban on young men entering shopping malls and markets on the weekend. This banning of young men in malls, especially teenagers, had become a norm in Jeddah and other cities as a way of protecting...
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The architect of Saudi diplomacy

  • In this increasingly chaotic part of the world, with Daesh expanding in Syria and Iraq, a civil war that has ravaged Syria for more than four years now, and a relatively new one in Yemen, the Middle East is passing through some of its most turbulent times.The death of former Saudi Foreign...
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Watch out for fake degrees

  • The hysteria over the arrest last month of the chief executive officer of Axact, the Pakistani software company that was churning out fake online university degrees and selling them to students around the globe, has unfortunately unfairly tainted the reputation of distance learning. So much so,...
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Bold steps embolden nation

  • Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman’s first 100 days in office have been marked by a series of bold decisions that have left Saudis pleasantly surprised at the measures taken after what seemed a long period over the last several years where the Kingdom just seemed to be coasting along...
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