Author: Steven Sahiounie

RIYADH: Collaboration between small and medium enterprises in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is set to get a boost, thanks to a new agreement between the two countries.   

RIYADH: Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al-Ibrahim has been named the new chairman of the National Infrastructure Fund, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

RIYADH: Financing solutions offered by the Saudi Industrial Development Fund are now accessible to alumni of the supplier development programs of the Kingdom’s sovereign wealth organization.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s non-oil exports, including re-exports, rose by 2.5 percent to SR22.6 billion ($6.03 billion) in November 2023 compared to the previous month, official data showed. 

“With their tacit consent, such weapons are used against civilians and civilian infrastructure facilities such as hospitals, schools and buses,” Valentina Matviyenko emphasized Russian embassies in those Western countries that supply weapons to Kiev must inform the citizens of such donor nations how the weapons bought and supplied with their taxes are being used to target and kill innocent civilians, Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament, or “senate”) Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said. “It’s crucial for people in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the US and the Czech Republic to be made aware of how their taxpayer money is being…

Nawaf Salam is the second Arab to be president of the ICJ and the first Lebanese judge. he previously served as Lebanon’s ambassador to the United Nations from 2007 to 2017. The International Court of Justice announced on Tuesday that Lebanese Judge Nawaf Salam has been elected by his peers as the newest and 27th president of the ICJ. He is due to serve a term of three years. Salam, who became a member of the ICJ on February 6, 2018, is the second Arab to be president and the first Lebanese judge. He previously served as Lebanon’s ambassador to the United…

An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli regime is the loser in its months-long genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, the Iranian president’s special envoy on Afghanistan affairs, said the United States and Israel intended to invade the Gaza Strip and destroy the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, but they failed and were forced to accept the establishment of an independent Palestinian State after nearly four months of brutal war. “The US and the Zionist regime initially sought to occupy the Gaza Strip and relocate the Palestinian people to another region, then they announced that they would destroy…

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a written message from Spain’s King Felipe on Wednesday, Saudi Press Agency reported.The message addressed the strong relations between the two countries and ways to further boost cooperation in a variety of fields.It was received on behalf of the crown prince by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who met with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares in Riyadh.The two officials reviewed bilateral relations and discussed issues of mutual interest at their meeting. Source: Arab News

“German firms and companies are suffering, they are losing their competitiveness, they are losing their profitability without this gas,” Kremlin; Dmitry Peskov noted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Sweden’s decision to close its investigation into the Nord Stream terrorist attacks due to an inability to identify the perpetrators “remarkable.” “The decision is remarkable, and it is remarkable that in this way it (the investigation – TASS) was terminated,” he told reporters. The Kremlin official said it will be interesting to see how meticulously Germany will approach the Nord Stream investigation. “Now we will need to see how Germany reacts to…

The main condition in any potential hostage deal between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement must be an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin told TASS. “The main thing [now] is what our president [Vladimir Putin] has said from the start: it is necessary to ensure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. This is the main condition to save people, to get unimpeded access to provide the population with humanitarian aid, as well as to create conditions for resuming the political process, which may lead to the implementation of the two-state solution,” the senior diplomat…