News – Middle East

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers will hold a session on Wednesday, Dec. 6 to approve the state’s general budget for the new fiscal year 1445/1446 AH, corresponding to 2024, according to a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency. It is noteworthy that the Ministry …

Palestinians fleeing Khan Yunis arrive in Rafah further south near the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, yesterday. Fearful of being killed in an Israeli bombardment, families in Gaza were packing up and fleeing yesterday, heading for a pocket of land further south already crammed with displaced people without enough food, …

DUBAI — The key to ensuring that communities — especially the most vulnerable —– can leave fossil-fuel based economies behind, is to create space for a just transition to a green economy, clean energy advocates and representatives of indigenous groups argued on Tuesday at COP28. As the two-week UN climate …

Saudi Gazette report DUBAI — Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef said that the mining sector plays an important role in supporting the energy transition in green manufacturing. In his speech at the third edition of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum 2023 in Dubai, he said that …

Ikhlas, the widow of Bilal Saleh, poses with her children as they hold a picture of their late father at the village of As-Sawiyah, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Moussa is eight years old and really likes marbles. But for the past month, this Palestinian boy, living …

Saudi Gazette report DOHA — Saudi Arabia and Qatar have signed a number of agreements and memorandums of understanding, including those for joint cooperation between central banks of the two countries, and cooperation in the field of youth and sports affairs. The pacts were inked on the occasion of the …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday a new package of tax incentives, including zero percentage of income tax, to multinational companies for a period of 30 years in the event of relocation of their regional headquarters to Riyadh. The announcement was made by the Ministry of …

The UN welcomed yesterday the increase in aid deliveries into Gaza afforded by a temporary truce but warned it was not enough to even start addressing the Palestinian territory’s massive needs. UN children’s agency Unicef said the aid flow to the northern Gaza Strip — the largest since the Israel-Hamas …

Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq Al-Rabiah will begin on Tuesday an official visit to India within the framework of the international communication tours pertaining to Hajj and Umrah. The minister will hold a number of meetings with Indian leaders, businessmen and investors in the …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Saud received in Riyadh Somalia’s Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation Ahmed Moallim Fiqi. During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways of enhancing security cooperation paths between the two ministries, in addition to discussing several topics …