Saudi Arabia

13 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Arab media has reported that Saudi Arabia deported a number of non-resident Indians (NRI) living in the Gulf state for protesting against the highly controversial register introduced by the far-right Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

11 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has asked the US federal court in Washington to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by an ex-intelligence official accusing him of an assassination attempt.

07 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Saudi Arabia has no opposition to the United States returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud announced yesterday.

05 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Former Head of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki Al-Faisal has denied news of an approaching Saudi normalisation deal with the occupation, as well as the alleged meeting held by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the latter a "liar".

This came in an interview with CNN, in which Al-Faisal discussed the leaks of a supposed meeting that took place between the Saudi crown prince and Netanyahu, which Saudi Arabia has denied.

05 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Saudi Arabia has abruptly cancelled the visit of an Israeli official last week, presumed to be the Mossad head. This came after Israel disclosed information about the secret meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, in the presence of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Neom, less than two weeks ago.

04 Dec 2020; MEMO: Abdullah Al-Ouda, son of the Saudi preacher Salman Al-Ouda, revealed on Thursday that his father "lost almost half of his ability to hear and see" in prison.

04 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is seeking a loan of $5 to $7 billion from international banks for investment opportunities, according to Bloomberg.

The PIF obtained its first loan in September 2018 amounting to $11 billion, and another loan of $10 billion in 2019.

According to data from the PIF, the fund has assets of $347 billion.

RIYADH, Dec 2 (NNN-SPA) – Saudi’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, denied any role of his country, in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

He responded to allegation by Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, claiming the murder of the scientist was a Saudi Arabia-U.S.-Israel plot.

It is not the policy of Saudi Arabia to engage in assassinations, al-Jubeir said.

Fakhrizadeh was assassinated last Friday, near the Iranian capital, Tehran, by “armed terrorists,” Iranian Ministry of Defence, said.

RIYADH, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi-led coalition involved in a war in Yemen announced on Wednesday the interception of a bomb-laden boat in the Red Sea, Al Arabiya TV reported.

The boat was launched by Houthi militia and a merchant vessel was slightly damaged, the coalition said, adding that the "terrorist acts" threaten navigation and global trade.

The incident happened a few days after a Houthi attack that created an explosion and caused the fuel tank fire in the oil facility in the north of the port city Jeddah.

23 Nov 2020; MEMO: An official at Saudi Arabia's ministry of energy said that a fire broke out in a fuel tank at a petroleum products distribution station in north Jeddah as a result of an attack with a projectile, Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported on Monday.