Saudi Arabia

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The US is losing ground in the region and it has only itself to blame.

Saudi Arabia aims to increase the revenue of its football league and bring it up to ‘top 10 in the world’.

The move comes in accordance with a China-brokered agreement between Tehran and Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s plan to voluntarily cut production is on top of OPEC+ deal to limit supply next year to prop up prices.

The rest of the OPEC+ oil producers agreed to extend earlier cuts in supply through the end of 2024.

The trip next week will be the top US diplomat’s first to the kingdom since the Iranian-Saudi normalisation deal.

Saudi Arabia’s Rayyanah Barnawi, a biomedical scientist in cancer research. became the first Arab woman sent into orbit.

Lebanese interior ministry says that nine people had been arrested in connection with Sunday’s kidnapping.

Government did not specify the groups the men were associated with, but said they had been planning to launch attacks.

Ronaldo ends his first season in Saudi football empty-handed but his move to Al Nassr had impacts on and off the pitch.

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