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OPEC 'set to keep pumping oil' despite global glut

OPEC is determined to keep pumping oil despite the financial consequences on the policy’s main architect Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters. The news

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has biggest number of ISIL supporters on Twitter

Economy

BAE Systems to axe 371 jobs after cut in Typhoon jet production

Europe’s biggest defence company BAE Systems says it’s to cut jobs in Britain and Australia, seeing no growth in earnings after it reduced the rate

Business Series

Following the Fed: impact of rate decisions on global currencies

The US Federal Reserve continues to be indecisive over interest rates. After its latest meeting the Fed kept the interest rate unchanged, which led

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia promises "all support necessary" to Syrian allies

euronews’ Daleen Hassan poke to Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir after the talks in Vienna, which concentrated on Syria but also

Europe News

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU's Sakharov rights prize

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the

Yemen

Yemen: Saudi-led air strikes to end as attention turns to talks

Saudi-led military operations in Yemen are nearing their end with the focus now turning to political talks. That was the message from the foreign

Austria

Mideast: international mediators meet in Vienna

International Middle East peace mediators are meeting in Vienna. They are planning to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, as well as the growing

Saudi Arabia

Last month's Hajj stampede becomes 'deadliest in history'

Almost a month after the Hajj stampede, the Associated Press reports the death toll has passed 2,000, making it the deadliest crush in the

Russia

Russia tries to reassure Saudi Arabia over Syria air strikes

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a diplomatic offensive trying to reassure Saudi Arabia that his intervention in Syria is aimed at

Yemen

Yemen wedding brothers killed in rocket strike

Three brothers getting ready for a joint wedding have been killed in a rocket attack in the southwest of Yemen. Locals say Saudi-led coalition jets

Economy

Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed raises Twitter stake

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and his investment company have increased their stake in Twitter to more than five percent

Iran

Thousands attend funeral ceremony in Tehran for Hajj crush victims

Thousands of mourners have attended a funeral ceremony in Tehran for Iranian pilgrims killed in the Hajj disaster in Saudi Arabia. They chanted

Iran

Hajj stampede victims' bodies flown back to Iran

The first plane carrying the bodies of Iranian pilgrims who died in the hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia landed in Tehran on Saturday. President Hassan

World News

Saudi-Iran tension still high despite deal to repatriate bodies of dead Haj pilgrims

Just hours after strong words from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, a deal has been reached to repatriate the bodies of his compatriots

Saudi Arabia

Why aren't rich Gulf states welcoming Syrian refugees...or are they?

As EU countries try to find the best way to deal with an influx of refugees that is unprecedented in recent years, the Gulf states have come under

Saudi Arabia

Hajj: Saudi authorities reject queries over death toll

The Saudi authorities have denied suggestions that more than a thousand people died in the tragedy last week – and say the death toll stands at 769

Yemen

Saudi-led coalition consolidates control in Yemen

Saudi Special Forces are openly training near the southern Yemen city of Aden as the Gulf coalition ground troops push into Houthi strongholds in the

Saudi Arabia

Iran to take legal action against Saudi Arabia over Hajj deaths

Thousands of Iranian protesters took to the streets of towns and cities across the country to condemn the Saudi government over the deaths of

Saudi Arabia

Hajj stampede 'beyond human control', says Saudi Arabia's top cleric

Saudi Arabia’s top religious leader has said the authorities were not to blame for the deadly stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage. The grand mufti