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Saudi Arabia has won the rights to hold the first ever Olympic eSports Games in 2025. The announcement came as part of a 12 year long agreement between Saudi Arabia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The arab country has been working on changing its international image, which always takes a hit due to the country’s track record of human rights abuses. In addition to that, it is also trying to keep its youth busy, giving them a platform that will give them more exposure to the outside world. The 12 year agreement means that both parties are interested in holding this event regularly...
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Syria and Saudi Arabia resumed commercial flights on Wednesday, after a decade of strained relations between the two countries. SANA, the state-run Syrian news agency, said the first regular scheduled flight of the airline Syrian Air flew directly from Damascus to the Saudi capital Riyadh early on Wednesday Morning. Syrian Air flight number RB389 landed in the Saudi capital at 6:28 am (0328 GMT), according to the website Flight Radar 24. Later, the aircraft returned to Damascus. The Syrian ambassador in the Kingdom, Ayman Soussan said this move represents "good news for Syrians and Saudis alik...
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Saudi officials reportedly made "veiled threats" to Group of Seven (G7) nations hinting that the kingdom would sell some European debt holdings if Western allies seized about $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg reported on July 9, citing its sources. According to sources familiar with the matter, officials from Saudi Arabia's finance ministry pushed their opposition to Western allies seizing frozen Russian assets, implying that the sale of European debt holdings would commence. Debt issued by France's treasury was specifically named, Bloomberg reported. The vague threats came ahea...
Kyiv Independent
Saudi officials reportedly made "veiled threats" to Group of Seven (G7) nations hinting that the kingdom would sell some European debt holdings if Western allies seized about $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg reported on July 9, citing its sources. According to sources familiar with the matter, officials from Saudi Arabia's finance ministry pushed their opposition to Western allies seizing frozen Russian assets, implying that the sale of European debt holdings would commence. Debt issued by France's treasury was specifically named, Bloomberg reported. The vague threats came ahea...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Saudi officials reportedly made "veiled threats" to Group of Seven (G7) nations hinting that the kingdom would sell some European debt holdings if Western allies seized about $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg reported on July 9, citing its sources. According to sources familiar with the matter, officials from Saudi Arabia's finance ministry pushed their opposition to Western allies seizing frozen Russian assets, implying that the sale of European debt holdings would commence. Debt issued by France's treasury was specifically named, Bloomberg reported. The vague threats came ahea...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Saudi Arabia has announced the discovery of seven significant oil and gas deposits in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province and the Empty Quarter, marking a substantial boost to the nation’s energy reserves. The announcement was made by Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the country’s energy minister, as reported by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Monday. Details of the new discoveriesAccording to the SPA report, Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil giant, has identified “two unconventional oil fields, a reservoir of light Arabian oil, two natural gas fields, and two natural gas reservoirs.” These discoveries...
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More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as pilgrims faced extreme temperatures, officials said Sunday. Temperatures during the pilgrimage, which took place from Friday, June 14th until Wednesday, June 19th topped 50 degrees celsius on Monday. An Egyptian official said Sunday that more than half of the dead were from Egypt. The government only announced the deaths of 31 authorised pilgrims due to chronic illness, however a cabinet official told Associated Press that at least 630 other pilgrims died, most of them counted at Emergency Complex in Mecca’s Al-M...
Euronews (English)
More than 500 people visiting Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage have died in surging temperatures, according to multiple sources, with the reported death toll still rising. Press agency AFP reported that at least 320 of the dead were citizens of Egypt, while Reuters reported that the Indonesian health ministry had recorded 144 deaths among its citizens attending the pilgrimage. Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia and Iran have also confirmed deaths. The total toll currently stands at around 550, nearly double the number of deaths reported at last year's pilgrimage. An estimated 1.8 million people have...
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Masses of pilgrims on Sunday embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat. The ritual marks the final days of the Hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage, and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world. The stoning is among the final rites of the Hajj, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It came a day after more than 1.8 million pilgrims congregated at a sacred hill, known as Mount Ararat, outside the holy city of Mecca, which Muslim pilgrims visit to perform the annual five-day rituals of Hajj. The pilgrims left Mount Arafat ...
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Muslims from around the world congregated on Saturday at a sacred hill in Saudi Arabia for the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage. Pilgrims gather for a ritual at Mount Arafat, known as the hill of mercy, for an intense day of worship and reflection. The mount is considered sacred as it’s believed that Prophet Muhammad delivered his final speech, known as the Farewell Sermon, at the location 1,435 years ago. In the sermon, the prophet called for equality and unity among Muslims. “It’s indescribable,” Ahmed Tukeyia, an Egyptian pilgrim, said of his experience arriving at a tent camp at the foot of M...
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