Saudi Arabia

RIYADAH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia on Tuesday agreed to provide Pakistan $3billion for a period of one year as balance of payment support, ARY News reported.According to a statement released from foreign office, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Finance Minister Asad Umar and the Saudi Finance Minister Muhammad …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia is in “crisis” over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the country’s energy minister, Khalid Al-Falih, warned today.Speaking at the Riyadh-held Future Investment Initiative (FII) summit, Al-Falih said that Khashoggi’s killing was “regrettable and unjustifiable.”We are going through a crisis,” the minister added.The three-day …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday hit back at Asif Ali Zardari after the former president suggested uniting opposition parties against the government.Chaudhry, who is accompanying Prime Minister Imran Khan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tweeted that Zardari should prefer to meet lawyers instead of politicians. He will …

SANA’A (Web Desk) In Yemen, rampant disease and hunger is seen as more devastating than Saudi bombs and gunfire.The poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen is now experiencing a deep famine, according to new UN data, quoted by Bloomberg in its new report.As detailed in the Bloomberg report, the …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia on Saturday admitted that critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed during a “brawl” inside its Istanbul consulate, an explanation that President Donald Trump said he found credible but failed to convince top US lawmakers.The kingdom announced the arrest of 18 Saudis in connection with their probe …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia has delivered a previously promised $100 million to the United States as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Riyadh to discuss the fate of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul more than …

QATIF (Web Desk) A young woman has been shot and injured after Saudi regime forces stormed the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.The Arabic-language Ahrar television network, in a post published on its official …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia warned it would retaliate against any sanctions imposed on the oil-rich kingdom over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,as the Riyadh stock market plunged on growing investor jitters.From tech tycoons to media giants, a host of Western companies are now distancing themselves from the Gulf …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Ford Motor Co Chairman Bill Ford cancelled a multi-stop trip to the Middle East, including a planned appearance at a Saudi investment conference, the company said on Sunday, the latest such cancellation after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Reuters reports.The company did not elaborate on …

RIYADH: (Web Desk) The Saudi stock market has dropped more than 6.8 percent after President Donald Trump threatened “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The drop in the Tadawul exchange in Riyadh happened on Sunday, the first day of trading. In an interview to be …