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Death sentence for five, jail terms for three in Khashoggi murder trial

  • RIYADH: Five people have been sentenced to death and three more were given jail terms by Riyadh’s criminal court over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year. Khashoggi was killed when he visited the Saudi Consulate in October in Istanbul. Reading out the verdict in the trial in Ri...
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Death sentence for five, jail terms for three in Khashoggi murder trial

  • RIYADH: Five people have been sentenced to death and three more were given jail terms by Riyadh’s criminal court over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year. Khashoggi was killed when he visited the Saudi Consulate in October in Istanbul. Reading out the verdict in the trial in Ri...
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Why Saudi reforms are bad news for the world’s terrorists

  • DUBAI: Terrorism, extremism and radicalism will decline as long as Saudi Arabia’s drive toward reform succeeds. If it does not, the West will suffer. Who says so? Norman T. Roule says so — and he should know. A 34-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roule is now one of the worl...
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘person of the year’

  • NEW YORK: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s “person of the year” Wednesday, becoming at age 16 the youngest person to whom the US magazine has given the title. Thunberg emerged as the face of the youth climate movement after she started skipping school once a week to pro...
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SALT conference: Saudi Arabia, UAE ‘promoting US engagement’ in the Middle East

  • ABU DHABI: The transformations taking place in Saudi Arabia and the model adopted by the UAE will be crucial to moving US-Arab relations forward. This was one of the many insights offered by Norman T. Roule, chief executive officer at Pharos Strategic Consulting LLC, a GCC- and Iran-focused c...
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Now we will begin to understand the true significance of Aramco’s IPO

  • Saudi Aramco is the biggest company in the world measured by market capitalization, and the Tadawul is the venue for the biggest share sale in history. Think on those two facts. At a valuation of $1.7 trillion, Aramco is well ahead of Apple (the previous largest quoted company) and worth abou...
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Don’t overanalyze the Saudi Media Forum

  • As a journalist, I have tremendous respect for Jason Rezaian, the former Washington Post Tehran bureau chief, who was unfairly convicted of espionage and was held for 544 days in an Iranian jail. He might not know this, but I — in my former capacity as editor of Al Arabiya English — was one of...
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INTERVIEW: The Mooch: ‘Relax — none of us are getting out of here alive’

  • You cannot publish everything Anthony Scaramucci tells you. I’ve had conversations with him several times on recent visits to the Middle East where he has offered views — for example, on the state of health of the president of the US — that would not make it into a family newspaper on grounds o...
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World should back Vision 2030 strategy says global risk guru

  • BEIJING: The world should back Saudi Arabia’s transformation strategy under Vision 2030 despite the challenges the Kingdom has faced, according to Ian Bremmer, one of the leading political risk advisers in the world. “When I see them moving toward Saudization, when I see how much mor...
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Aramco’s historic IPO — the view from the ADIPEC stand

  • The Saudi Aramco stand at ADIPEC was probably the single most visited exhibit at the gigantic energy show Abu Dhabi puts on every year. But while most visitors gazed intently at the scale models of oilfields and listened politely to the talks on advanced drilling techniques, the elephant on t...
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