The Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia (MISA), the General Authority for Military Industry (GAMI) and Leonardo announced yesterday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which aims to discuss, develop and evaluate a series of investments and collaboration opportunities in the aerospace and defense sectors. The announcement was made on the occasion of […]
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by Editorial Staff The United States recently conducted new attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen, CNN reported. The operation, as stated by the New York Times, would have targeted a radar facility in the country, aiming to limit the Houthis' ability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea. The USS Carney […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A multipolar world, this is how Xi Jinping's China understands it, which wants to have an ever greater impact on international disputes to protect its strategic and economic interests. Xi recently proposed 12 points for peace between Russia and Ukraine and concretely favored the once unthinkable rapprochement between Iran [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Five days of meetings held in the strictest secrecy, thus Saudi Arabia and Iran have re-knit in Beijing the web of relations interrupted in 2016: within two years the embassies will also reopen. The Middle East can now count on a strong alliance thanks to the long arm of China which it acquires, in a hot region […]
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Diplomatic relations are fervent between the countries, everyone is looking for a way out for the issue of energy and wheat but also to re-establish a balance in the world order which has become more and more precarious every day and in function of the Ukrainian war. Almost all the states that are facing economic problems are affected by this new course [...]
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Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles, with the help of China. This was supported by the US broadcaster CNN, which in an exclusive report states that US intelligence agencies have been informed about a series of clues collected, including satellite photos, classified. If confirmed, the hypothesis would complicate the situation in the Middle East, also modifying the strategic balance, [...]
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Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) and Leonardo sign Memorandum of Agreement for maintenance services to support the AW139 helicopter fleet in Saudi Arabia Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) and Leonardo announced today, during the Dubai Airshow (14-18 November 2021), the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to strengthen the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the other Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain) have signed a historic agreement to end the embargo that lasted three years. The summit was held in AI Ula, a town north of Medina. The Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani was present, received [...]
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Michele Marsiglia, President FederPetroli Italia, explains why the price of oil has gone below zero and why today Eni is stronger with the confirmation of Descalzi and the entry into the Saudi shareholding, "a strengthening of the Oil & Gas business "……. Since last Monday, the Covid-19 coronavirus has given way to oil in the nightmares of [...]
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The news is reported by all Libyan newspapers, from the Libyan Observer to the Libyan Address. Surprisingly, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj flew to Turkey to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the early afternoon. The main issue addressed was the agreement to send Turkish troops to help the Tripoli government. Only [...]
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US authorities have accused two Twitter employees and a staff member of the Saudi Arabian royal family of spying for Riyadh. The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed a suit Wednesday in San Francisco, accusing the three men of "acting as agents" for Saudi Arabia. According to the FBI, the [...]
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The security chief of King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia was shot dead under mysterious circumstances. Abdulaziz al-Fagham was a major general in the Royal Guard Corps of Saudi Arabia. He had the most delicate task: to protect the oldest members of the royal family. Al-Fagham served two kings, the king [...]
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One question among all after the drone and missile attacks on oil wells in Saudi Arabia on 14 September. Will there be an escalation between the Saudi kingdom and Iran? Riyadh directly accused the Islamic Republic of ordering the attacks. But speculation about a possible war is disconcerting, says Nesrine #Malik in [...]
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The United States will send troops, assets and military systems to Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2003. The deployment of military units will be a "deterrent" to Iran. The announcement, therefore, fits fully into the Hybrid War between Washington and Tehran and preceded by a few hours the news of the kidnapping by the Pasdaran [...]
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Saudi Arabia - Apple and Google are accused of helping to "strengthen gender apartheid" by offering an application on their platforms that allows men to track women and prevent them from leaving the country. Absher is available on both Google Play and the iTunes Store and is an app developed by the Saudi government that [...]
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According to two separate investigations, the weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to the Saudi and Emirati governments end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militias in Yemen. The weapons are supplied to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the West, with the understanding that they will be used in the war [...]
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Last month, the German government announced a total embargo on arms exports to Saudi Arabia. Significant losses for the German defense industry, which intends to sue the executive led by Merkel for damages. This was reported by the Italian news agency Nova. In an interview with the German press agency "Dpa", Hans Cristoph Atzpodien, president of the Federal Association [...]
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American intelligence agencies have evidence that the Saudi royal family tried to lure Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia to capture him. Khashoggi, 59, was a Saudi government advisor who became a critic of the kingdom's style of governance in 2015. He moved to the United States, [...]
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Five international companies with experience in the canal excavation sector have so far submitted their offers for the Salwa Canal in the territories of Saudi Arabia and along the borders with Qatar. The winner's name will be announced in 90 days and the company will have one year to complete the work, [...] reported
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The Saudi-Emirati-led coalition launched the final attack on the port city of Hodeidah, the Red Sea stronghold of the pro-Iranian Houthi resistance in Yemen. After the 48h ultimatum launched last Monday from Abu Dhabi, at the first light of dawn intense bombardments from land and sea started against the Shiite positions, which respond [...]
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The crisis triggered in the Gulf last June 5 following the decision of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt to interrupt diplomatic and trade relations with Qatar, continues to have its effects especially on the population. Qatar was asked to cut ties with Tehran and a series [...]
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The new agreement replaces an old procedure never digested by the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, who also holds the role of the country's defense minister. According to sources close to Bin Salman, the latter intends to distance himself from previous commercial procedures. The crown prince arrived in [...]
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(by Roberta PREZIOSA) The Jerusalemonline.com reported today that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a recent interview, recognized the right of Israel, as well as that of the Palestinians to live in peace in their land. He is the first Arab leader who said "I believe the palestinians and israelis have [...]
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(by Roberta Preziosa) Il sole 24 ore (March 8, 2018) reported the good news that an Italian, Dr. Giuseppe Giordo, former CEO of Alenia Aeronautica, has been selected by PENTA (European investment group in the Czech Republic) since 2016 to lead the AERO Vodochody aeronautics industry located near Prague and, since 2018, has [...]
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Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace for the first time to a direct commercial flight to Israel. The inauguration of the historic route, with the New Delhi-Tel Aviv route, operated by Air India, took place yesterday, March 22, 2018. Flight 139 of the Indian company landed yesterday at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv at the end […]
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Today 21 March the European Multi Mission Frigate (FREMM) Carlo Margottini of the Italian Navy arrived in the port of Dammam, capital of the Al-Sharqiyya Province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where it will stop until 23 March. Nave Margottini is the third FREMM unit delivered to the Italian Navy on 27 February 2014 in the "antisubmarine" version and is [...]
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(by Antonio Deganutti) There are two important elements to evaluate for the future developments of the Saudis' relations with Italy: the media hype over the arms supply contracts authorized to Saudi Arabia under the law 185 and the recent planned visits by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the West but not in Italy. [...]
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"Agreement signed with the Council of Saudi Chambers to promote commercial relations between the two countries and seize the opportunities offered by the Saudi Vision 2030 program" The SACE SIMEST Roadshow - the export and internationalization hub - ended in Saudi Arabia of the CDP Group - which involved top management [...]
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According to sources from the Saudi business world, the government of Saudi Arabia has released the billionaire prince, Alwaleed bin Talad, under house arrest for three months at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh for corruption. The position towards the law of the prince involved in an investigation that last November [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the Saudi government cabinet has expressed satisfaction with King Salman's directives to deposit $ 2 billion in the Central Bank of Yemen, bringing Riyadh's total deposits to $ 3 billion. This was reported by the Saudi newspaper "Arab News". In a meeting that took place [...]
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Saudi Arabia and Iraq have entered into bilateral cooperation agreements in various fields. The Minister of Trade and Investments Majid al Qasabi, and the Iraqi Minister of Planning and Commerce Suleiman al Jumaili signed the agreements, at the end of the work of the bilateral coordination council which took place in Riyadh. The [...]
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The Houthi movement of Yemen announced that it had fired a ballistic missile at a regional airport in the province of Jizan, Saudi Arabia, according to the Saba agency. Houthi said the missile is short-range, without giving further details. However, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel reported that [...]
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Eleven Saudi princes arrested who could be tried after protesting near a royal palace in Riyadh against economic measures that have cut their benefits: a press agency linked to the government reported today. According to the Sabq website, these unidentified principles protested against the decision [...]
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Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads after the launch of a missile from Yemen, which fell south of Riyadh, whose paternity has been claimed by the Shiite Houthi rebels. The missile launched, a rebel spokesman said, is a Burkan-2. The missile was directed towards the Yamama Palace, the royal residence where it was [...]
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As reported by the Nova agency, Saudi Arabia today congratulated Iraq for the "great victory against terrorism" and the defeat of the Islamic State (IS). A Saudi foreign ministry official told the kingdom's "Spa" news agency today that "the end of the war in Iraq is a great victory against [...]
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UN experts who arrived in Saudi Arabia to verify and study the fragments of a missile fired by Yemen last month have found a probable link with an Iranian contractor. This was revealed by a confidential document that France Presse was able to view. Saudi Arabia and the United States accused Iran of supplying weapons [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the spokesman for the Yemeni Shiite rebel group Houthi, Mohammed Abdel Salam, has launched new threats against Saudi Arabia by talking about the strength of its ballistic missile arsenal. Commenting on the document issued last November 19 by the Arab League condemning the missile raid by Yemeni rebels on Riyadh, Abdel Salam […]
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According to data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (Jodi), an international association that monitors data on oil and gas production, Saudi Arabia, in terms of oil production, was overtaken by Russia in September. The latter produced 10.249 barrels per day, clearly ahead of Saudi Arabia's 9.973, reaching 10 billion [...]
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Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's premier last November, accepted the invitation from Paris. The date of arrival, however, was not communicated. Meanwhile, Lebanese President Michel Aoun would have announced his arrival in the French capital on Saturday, in view of a short stay a few days before [...]
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According to reports by the Lebanese news agency NNA, a Saudi citizen was kidnapped in the Kesrouan area, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Ali al-Bishrawi, 32, was allegedly taken last night from his home located in the Kesrouan district, in the Adma area. His wife, a Syrian citizen, confirmed [...]
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Saudi Arabia is opening a new front against Iran and wants Israel to play the dirty game ”in Lebanon against Hezbollah. This is hypothesized by a long analysis by Haaretz, according to which the Saudi kingdom is trying to move the battlefield with Iran from Syria to Lebanon, with the risk of triggering a [...]
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French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Saudi Arabia at the end of his trip to the United Arab Emirates for an unscheduled visit to the kingdom to discuss with the heir to the Saudi throne, Mohammed bin Salman, the situation in Lebanon following the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the crisis in Yemen. According to the statement [...]
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Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens residing in Lebanon to "leave the country immediately". The travel notice issued by Riyadh also invites its citizens not to go to Lebanon. Previously, the Kingdom of Bahrain had also issued the same sighting to its citizens residing in the Arab country. The measure implemented by the two [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) In Saudi Arabia many princes have been arrested and a centralization of powers is underway in the hands of Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) son of the Sovereign. On November 4th, a royal decree was signed for the establishment of an anti-corruption committee headed by Mohammad bin Salman; in Saudi Arabia, [...]
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The increasingly powerful heir to the Saudi throne, Prince Mohamed bin Salman (known as MbS) has cracked down on lawlessness in Saudi Arabia without looking at anyone, including his possibly uncomfortable relatives. Al Arabiya specifies on Twiter that the commission led by MbS has arranged for [...]
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With regard to what is reported by the General Sports Authority, Saudi Arabia from next year will allow women to participate in sporting events in three selected stadiums for the first time. From what the Saudi State News Agency declared late yesterday, the stadiums of Jeddah, Dammam and Riyadh are [...]
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Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, former deputy prime minister of Qatar, reportedly told the Spanish newspaper ABC that the United Arab Emirates had a plan to invade Doha, with the help of an army of mercenaries. According to Al Attiyah, the United Arab Emirates have recently hired a contractor for the private security of the Blackwater company, with [...]
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US President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who praised the US president for “his new, visionary strategy on Iran, promising support for the American leadership. This is what we read in a note from the White House, in which it is reported that during the telephone call that took place yesterday [...]
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A conference on Syria was held yesterday at the council chamber of the Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, defined at the beginning by the Consultant of the Syrian Ministry of Information, Ouday Ramadan, particularly "courageous" in a context like the current one in which the dominant media circle, it provides "its truth" by passing it off as independent and disinterested information. What […]
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Qatar: Saudi parliamentarian, Doha's stance in the fight against terrorism is wrong The chairman of the friendship commission between the Saudi parliament and the European parliament, Khaled Bin Mashari, said that the position taken by Qatar, with respect to the fight against terrorism, it is wrong. The decision taken by our country against Doha falls within [...]
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According to Nova, an agreement has been reached between Russia and Saudi Arabia for the supply of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. This was confirmed by the Federal Service for Russian military-technical cooperation. "It is confirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reached an agreement on the supply of S-400 Cornet-AM air defense missile systems, [...]
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Russia-Saudi Arabia: cooperation agreements focus on energy and AK103 rifles. Common Fund for 1 billion dollars and "enough" Iran meddling in the Middle East According to Nova, most of the agreements that are signed today at the Russian-Saudi investment forum will concern energy, but also the agricultural, mining and manufacturing. It has […]
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According to the Nova agency, Saudi Arabia believes that Iran is not respecting the terms of the international agreement on its nuclear program concluded in 2015 in Vienna. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir spoke to the media on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly underway in New York. "We count on the international community to [...]
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Nobody talks about it, the barbarity in Yemen In Rome they vote against and in Strasbourg they vote in favor of the interruption of Italian military supplies to Saudi Arabia involved in a dirty war with Yemen. The military systems we sell to Saudi Arabia are also used to bomb civilian areas, killing unarmed women and children. An unacceptable duplicity. I [...]
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Iran complimented Saudi Arabia for the good organization of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), considering it as an opportunity for negotiations between the two regional rival countries, according to the state television broadcaster "Irib". . "We thank Saudi Arabia for having opted for a new attitude towards Iranian pilgrims", said Ali Ghazi-Asghar, [...]
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Russia and Qatar, the two main gas producers in the world, yesterday relaunched their commercial ties in the midst of the crisis that is affecting the Gulf emirate after the breakdown of diplomatic relations by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt accusing Doha of supporting terrorism. We learn from the visit to Doha by the Foreign Minister [...]
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Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al Luabi met with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir in Jeddah. According to a press release from the Riyadh Foreign Ministry, bilateral relations and ways to strengthen them are at the center of talks between Al Luaibi and Jubeir. The Iraqi oil minister undertook a visit on 8 August [...]
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The Middle East is one of the most complex regions in the world. Right now there are four failed states (Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Syria) and three ongoing wars (Syria, Iraq and Yemen), with major powers like Russia and the United States increasingly taking part in conflicts on different fronts. The region has seen conflict after conflict since [...]
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Saudi Arabia plans to cut oil production until 2018. The agreement is with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some non-member states. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al Falih said this today in St. Petersburg. Also in the Saudi Ministry of Energy he also said that after 2017, a gradual withdrawal will be worked on [...]
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The high-speed train of the Haramain project arrived yesterday for the first time in the station of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. The train arrived in the city on the Red Sea coming from the King Abdullah Economic City (Kaec), covering approximately 115 kilometers. The Railway Corporation seeks to play its role in the implementation of the Vision 2030 reform program by using its energies [...]
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