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A Riyadh court convicted Esther Wanja Muthoni of sex outside marriage after she gave birth, according to reports. Rights groups call it an act of violence; Saudi authorities have not commented.
The credit insurer says the six GCC economies will shrink 4% this year, with Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain hit hardest and more than 80 energy sites struck.
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said there is no plan to deploy forces in Yemen after reports of hundreds of Syrian personnel heading south. The deal could take Syria into the Makkah pact with Pakistan.
A letter to players cited the State Department’s Level 3 travel advisory for Qatar. The US had been drawn with Montenegro, Chile, and Algeria.
The Houthis said they targeted oil facilities, not the holy city, and claimed a drone strike on a pumping station in Yanbu. Riyadh has not confirmed that.
Foreign ministers meeting in Paris backed the Kingdom’s right to defend itself and urged the Houthis to halt all military action.
The UAE’s biggest lender will sell 1.11 billion new shares at Dh13.52 each. Mubadala, its largest shareholder, will take up its full entitlement.
Seven or eight tents supplied by Saudi Arabia were damaged in Sabra, and a Saudi aid team returned with replacements, food parcels, and hygiene kits.
The one-million-tonne-a-year contract was due to run until 2034. Orlen says its gas supply is not at risk, and it keeps a second deal with QatarEnergy.
Two of the superjumbos have already changed hands, and the other four will follow in stages through April 2028 as their leases run out.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani joined world leaders at the opening of the COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya and called the conference a milestone for international cooperation on climate change.
The Saudi-led coalition said the missiles were intercepted before reaching their targets. It gave no details of damage, casualties, or launch sites.
The kingdom pumped 10.56 million barrels a day in October, leading a rise across OPEC+ despite continued disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
The second phase of a February pact brings power plants to be built jointly with Saudi Arabia in Türkiye to 5,000MW, as the COP31 hosts push electrification.
The company gave no details of the vessel or crew. Within a day, a tanker near Hormuz was hit by a projectile, Iran’s army said another struck a mine, and a Dubai-bound ship had four crew injured.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid’s shipment will go through Operation Gallant Knight 3, which the UAE says has delivered $4.16 billion of aid to Gaza in three years.
The Houthis claimed hits on Riyadh airport and Abqaiq, but Bahrain’s king landed at the same airport on Tuesday as Yemen’s army pressed an offensive on the ground.
Saudi Arabia says an Aramco administrative building in the capital was hit in an attempted attack, with no one hurt, as air defences destroyed four Houthi missiles fired at Riyadh and the south
Riders must carry orders in approved boxes, wear uniforms, carry valid permits and never give anyone a lift while working, under federal traffic rules that take effect on January 1
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Higher oil prices and a joint venture exit lifted the Saudi oil giant’s earnings, even as the Iran war cut its output and its facilities came under fire.
“The world has eroded its supply buffers,” Sultan Al Jaber tells the ADIPEC energy conference in Abu Dhabi, with diesel stocks at a 35-year seasonal low in some markets
OpenAI chief says there must be “no room for debate” over human control, and names energy as the one challenge he faces today
Civil defence alerts were issued and lifted across southern Saudi cities, while Houthi media say seven people were wounded in coalition strikes in Hodeidah province.
Saudi authorities have not commented on the claim about a strike in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province.
The ship is safe and operational, its owner says, as attacks on Gulf shipping hit a record in October.
Researchers found 533 million ad exposures across 30 countries pushing racist, Islamophobic and anti-Qatar messaging, with metadata pointing to an operation run from Israel.
The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed a Houthi drone heading for the Makkah region and a cruise missile aimed at western Saudi Arabia, as Pakistan told the UN it stands in complete solidarity with the kingdom.
Pakistan has approved a tax-neutral bonded policy letting Saudi companies keep commercial oil reserves in the country, and the Saudi embassy has started same-day visas for Pakistanis.
The exchange suspended deposits and withdrawals and says it will cover all losses, as an analytics firm blames North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit and bitcoin slides to a six-week low.
The group says it targeted Ras Tanura, Abqaiq, Rabigh and airports in Riyadh and Dammam; Saudi air defences intercepted two missiles over the capital, wounding one person with shrapnel.
The court found the men ran an “integrated scheme” to supply weapons to Sudan’s military and launder the proceeds through UAE companies and bank accounts.
Doha said it was being made a scapegoat for Israeli politicians’ failures, while the election committee’s acting director said the vote had been conducted lawfully.
Civil Defence issued an alert in the Eastern Province before the all-clear. Debris from earlier interceptions damaged property in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Saudi air defences intercepted two missiles over Riyadh after the Houthis also claimed a hit on the Ras Tanura refinery, as Türkiye moved to ratify the Makkah defence pact.
The Court of Appeal ruled that an arbitration tribunal was wrong to turn away the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority’s case over a cancelled Andhra Pradesh aluminium project.
Legaline Platform’s Meta Legal Space, unveiled at the Dubai AI Festival, puts law students in front of AI judges, witnesses and opposing counsel under UAE, DIFC and ADGM rules.
The UAE's former UN envoy would be the first woman and second Arab to lead the world body, but joins a deadlocked race in which every candidate has drawn a veto.
bStocks let eligible UAE users trade tokens tracking Tesla, NVIDIA and other US shares around the clock from $5, under prospectuses approved by Abu Dhabi Global Market’s regulator.
An AK Party lawmaker told Reuters the request would follow ratification of the Makkah defence pact, which Ankara sent to parliament on Tuesday. There has been no official confirmation from Ankara, Riyadh or Islamabad.
