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Here's where each of the 12 OPEC members stand ahead of this week's meeting
OPEC, the 12-member oil cartel, is meeting once again to discuss their game plan for production on Friday in Vienna.But while the cartel's decisions over the past year looked pretty clear-cut, things...
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The ominous 'Skyscraper Indicator' has been triggered
Saudi Arabia officially secured the funds to build the world's tallest building. Jeddah Tower (or Kingdom Tower) is expected to reach 3,280 feet — or 1 kilometer — into the air. That'll dwarf the...
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2 things to watch out for in Friday's massive OPEC announcement (USO, OIL)
Friday is Jobs Day in the US, but there's also huge news in the energy market coming up as OPEC — or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — will announce its latest output targets. Right...
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Tashfeen Malik may be the 'wild card' in the San Bernardino shooting...
Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman involved in the California mass shooting last week, may have influenced her American husband toward violence, said Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the...
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The Middle East's 2 great powers are heading for a showdown over oil prices
VIENNA — It used to be said of OPEC that it was like a teabag — it worked only in hot water. If that is so, conditions on world oil markets could hardly be more difficult as prices languish at almost...
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A bunch of OPEC members are 'at risk for a significant crisis in 2016' (OIL,...
OPEC, the now 13-member oil cartel, decided to maintain production at 31.5 million barrels per day at its meeting in Vienna last Friday.But the group remained divided over its production ceiling, and...
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OPEC's price war is crushing American producers
OPEC’s decision at its semi-annual meeting in Vienna on Friday not to cut production but to legitimize its overproduction shows that the group is determined at any cost to recover the market share it...
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A 'Saudi-Turkish wish-list’: Syrian opposition talks in Saudi Arabia fall...
Syria's divided rebel and opposition groups are trying to forge a common stance to oust President Bashar al-Assad but the absence of prominent activists and a main Kurdish force from their talks in...
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Syria armed group Ahrar al-Sham quits Riyadh conference
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Thursday it was quitting a Saudi-hosted opposition meeting on Syria because the role of "revolutionary groups" had not...
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17 staggering facts about Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Arabia-led oil cartel, OPEC, decided to maintain production last Friday, but remained divided over its production ceiling and failed to reach an agreement.And that could mean dark times ahead...
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Saudi Arabia elected its first woman politician
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that Salima bint Hazab al-Otaibi had become the first woman elected to public office in the conservative Islamic kingdom after winning a seat on the...
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Saudi Press: 17 women elected after first ever election to allow female...
Saudi Arabians voted 17 women into public office in municipal elections in the conservative Islamic kingdom on Saturday, the first to allow female participation, a state-aligned news site reported on...
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Saudi Arabia elected 20 women in a vote where candidates were banned from...
Saudi Arabia has elected its first female local councillors in a historic step for a country where women are banned from driving and face routine discrimination.Results from Saturday’s municipal...
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Countdown to Yemen ceasefire on eve of Switzerland talks
Aden (AFP) - Yemen's warring factions are set to observe a ceasefire starting Monday at midnight, the government said, despite growing signs of mutual mistrust on the eve of UN-brokered peace talks.The...
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More than a dozen women were voted into public office in a country routinely...
A number of women have been voted into public office across Saudi Arabia, after the first election to allow female participation in the country. At least 17 women won council seats during the municipal...
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Women voted in Saudi Arabia this week — but they only won 1% of available...
Women in Saudi Arabia were permitted to vote and run as candidates for the first time in local elections on December 12th in what news media widely hailed as a historic milestone. According to results...
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The Middle East dreamed up at the Republican debate doesn’t really exist
The fifth round of the Republican debates hinged on questions of national security and foreign policy. There were real divisions between some of the leading candidates on the main stage, who sparred...
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Saudi Arabia's coalition against terrorists may not be what it seems
A group of Muslim countries announced Tuesday a coalition aimed at doing what the United States and other powers have long called on the Islamic world to do: make the war on the Islamic State and other...
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Saudi Arabia will behead a second teen protester
The distraught parents of a teenager believed to be on the brink of being beheaded by Saudi Arabia have launched a last-ditch appeal to the world for help. Abdullah al-Zaher was arrested after taking...
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OPEC's in jeopardy, and its members can't hold on forever
Where’s the floor? Is this the new normal? Answers have proven elusive and predictions unreliable as the oil market continues to lurch to and fro, though mostly down; oil is at an 11-year low.Looking...
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