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Saudi Arabia

  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    World Cup award adds pressure to Saudi Arabia’s construction challenge

    Sporting plans bulk out kingdom’s project pipeline as it seeks to reduce dependence on oil revenues

    A general view inside the Saudi Arabia World Cup bid exhibition in Riyadh
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Rutherford Hall
    A new year’s message from the king of the mountain

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Syria
    Syrian delegation visits Saudi Arabia in first foreign trip since Assad ousting

    Foreign and defence ministers arrive in Riyadh as Gulf states move to embrace new rulers

    Syria’s new foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, left, meets Saudi Arabian deputy foreign minister Waleed Elkhereiji in Riyadh
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    SSGA launches Saudi Arabia sovereign bond ETF in Europe

    Asset manager says growth of kingdom’s bond market has accelerated, driven in part by Vision 2030

    A Saudi trader with his back to the camera, with stock results projected on his back
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FIFA Men's World Cup
    Fifa confirms Saudi Arabia as host of 2034 World Cup

    Kingdom’s unopposed bid for sporting event ratified by football’s governing body on Wednesday

    Saudi Arabia fans with a replica of the World Cup during the 2022 tournament in Qatar
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    News in-depthChinese trade
    China’s ties with Saudi Arabia buoyed by green tech

    Warming relations between Xi Jinping and Saudi crown prince complicate outlook for Trump administration

    Montage of Mohammed bin Salman and Xi Jinping with elements of the Chinese and Saudi Arabian flags in the background and red and green hued images of solar panels and wind turbines
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Pollution
    UN plastics treaty talks fail after oil producers block output limits

    Discussions postponed on curbs as Saudi Arabia and Russia frustrate multilateral process

    A worker holds a big plastic bag full of plastic bottles in San Giovanni metro station in Rome, Italy
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    Executions and rehab: Saudi Arabia dials up its ‘war on drugs’

    Kingdom tries to respond to impact of growing narcotics use attributed to social change and rise of drugs such as captagon

    Amphetamine pills found hidden in a shipment of construction materials at Jeddah port in November
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Middle East looks to Saudi Arabia to rein in Trump

    Arab states hope close ties between Crown Prince Mohammed and US president-elect can temper ardent support for Israel

    US President Donald Trump is pictured as he prepares to board Air Force One in Riyadh in May 2017
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer to visit Saudi Arabia and UAE to try to secure investment

    UK prime minister is seeking billions of pounds of Gulf money to boost British growth

    Keir Starmer and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Middle Eastern companies
    UK construction executive sues Saudi-owned developer for $100mn

    David Grover has brought a lawsuit in Riyadh against PIF-backed Roshn claiming bonuses and performance payments

    An aerial view of the Jeddah skyline
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Neom mega-project boss abruptly replaced in Saudi Arabia

    Nadhmi al-Nasr leaves after six years in charge of $500bn desert development

    Aerial view of a futuristic, hexagonal water city with grid-like structures, surrounded by ocean and set against a desert landscape at sunset
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Gulf states wary of return to Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran

    Saudi Arabia and UAE welcome president-elect but worry he could upend rapprochement with Tehran and inflame Middle East war

    Donald Trump, right, and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2018
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Two Saudi officers killed in Yemen attack

    Riyadh officials attribute training camp assault to ‘lone wolf’ soldier

    Soldiers standing on the back of trucks
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk in funding talks with Middle East investors to value xAI at $45bn

    Early discussions include existing backers of artificial intelligence start-up

    Elon Musk appears on a large screen with the stage backdrop featuring the event's logo and a futuristic design
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Hong Kong
    New Hong Kong-focused ETF gains approval in Saudi Arabia

    Hang Seng Investment Management is second manager to get green light as authorities push for closer ties between both markets

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Public Investment Fund’s desert mirage Premium content

    Plus, why Topgolf is parting with its owner and HSBC‘s boss says it isn’t splitting up

    A delegate films on their mobile phone as Governor of Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia Yasir Al-Rumayyan appears on a screen
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund pivots from international investments

    Public Investment Fund will focus more of its financial firepower on domestic projects

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    News in-depth
    The Saudi factories powered by women

    A surge in female labour force participation has emerged as a bright spot for the kingdom

    Johnson factory for air conditioners, based in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Saudi broadcaster MBC under fire over ‘terrorist’ label for slain Hamas chief

    Middle East’s biggest media group withdraws report on Yahya Sinwar after regional backlash

    Screengrab of Yahya Sinwar
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Saudi Arabia tightens its belt

    After eight years of whirlwind construction activity and unprecedented spending, the kingdom’s new watchword is prudence

    Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Tehran urges Gulf states to stay ‘neutral’ amid Israel tensions

    Flurry of diplomacy with regional rivals aims to contain impact of Israeli retaliation against Iran

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meeting with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in Riyadh
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Saudi tycoon plans comeback with world’s tallest tower

    Long-stalled project among a flurry of glitzy real estate deals designed to attract investors and tourists

    Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and others look at model of Jeddah Tower ahead of a press conference in 2017
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud
    Saudi foreign minister: A two-state solution is more urgent than ever

    Uncontrolled escalatory cycles are the building blocks of wider war

    Palestinian children gather at a destroyed vehicle, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

    Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

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