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Saudi king cuts his French beach vacation short after locals cause an uproar
Vallauris (France) (AFP) - Workers were busily returning a beach in southern France to its previous condition on Monday after the premature departure of Saudi King Salman, whose commandeering of the...
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Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen is a tragic blunder
The Houthi rebels and their ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, former president of Yemen, show no sign of bending to the will of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Addul-Aziz Al Saud Salman after more than four...
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Saudi Arabia's oil price war is backfiring
Saudi Arabia has long enjoyed the status of being the top crude-oil exporter in the world. With record production of 10.564 million barrels per day in June 2015, Saudi Arabia has been one of the major...
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Here's what the 'spectrum of pain' looks like for the 12 members of OPEC
All the OPEC members unhappy with lower oil prices, but not all are struggling equally."The 'spectrum of pain' is wide indeed," RBC Capital Markets' Global Head of Commodity Strategy Helima Croft wrote...
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Don't count the Arab states out in the Middle East's post-Iran deal power...
Unfreezing $150 billion in Iranian assets would give Tehran an instant boost and turn the military status quo across the Middle East in its favor, or so argue opponents of the Iran deal.Another...
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It's been a suspiciously long time since the leader of Al Qaeda made a public...
The emir of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, has not made any public statements since September 2014.His now 11-month long absence is unprecedented. Next month will be a key test for Zawahri: the...
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The Ashley Madison hack is a goldmine for blackmailers that puts people in...
Following the hack of extra-marital affairs website Ashley Madison in July, the hackers have now uploaded to the web highly compromising personal information on about 37 million people.The data trove...
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ISIS claims responsibility for explosion outside government building in Yemen
A bomb exploded next to the governor's office in Aden and killed four people on Thursday, witnesses said, as Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly raid on a Yemeni military post...
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The Saudis could face an open revolt at the next OPEC meeting
OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil...
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A look at two currency pegs the market is betting on to fail
There are two currency pegs that serve as bedrocks. They were not tackled in the series of emerging market crisis that began in the mid-1990s.  They did not succumb during the Great Financial crisis....
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The mastermind of a devastating, Iranian-orchestrated 1996 attack on US...
Ahmed al-Mughassil, a Saudi Shiite who masterminded the June 25, 1996 attack on an American military base in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, has been captured by Saudi intelligence. According to Saudi and...
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Why Saudi Arabia won't cut oil production
Nine months after OPEC decided to leave its production target unchanged and pursue market share instead of trying to prop up prices, the group is facing a set of complex problems and decisions going...
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The oil price explosion is totally detached from reality
Oil prices are still massively higher than they were a week ago but Citi believes that the surge is pretty much devoid from reality.Crude oil rocketed nearly 30% in just three days, its biggest...
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At least 20 people killed by 2 bombs that blew up at a mosque in Yemen's capital
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Medical officials say at least 20 people have been killed by two bombs that blew up at a mosque in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.Police officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up...
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Obama is meeting with the Saudi king to smooth over ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Friday to seek more support in countering Iran, as the Obama administration aims to use the visit to...
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This is what the Saudi king wants from his talk with Obama on Friday
The first White House visit by a Middle Eastern leader since President Obama secured enough congressional support for the Iran nuclear deal will not be about looking backward, but about US reassurances...
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Saudi Arabia just thwarted an attack on the world's largest oil-processing...
A gunman accused of having ties to terrorist organizations attacked a Saudi Arabian security facility near a major Saudi oil facility on Friday. Saudi security forces repelled the attack allegedly near...
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Here's why rich Arab Gulf states won't welcome Syrian refugees
It's hard not to notice how almost all Syrian refugees flee westward rather than seek a safe haven in the rich Arab Persian Gulf states.Now, social-media users worldwide are increasingly raising the...
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Saudi Arabia is giving the Obama administration a thumbs up on the nuclear...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is satisfied with U.S. President Barack Obama's assurances about the Iran nuclear deal and believes the agreement will contribute to security and stability in the...
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Man who traveled to every country on earth explains the most difficult places...
Last summer, my Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca landed at Malabo International Airport in Equatorial Guinea, and I completed a 50-year mission: I had officially, and legally, visited every...
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