Saturday, November 22, 2025

These are tough times, but we shall prevail

The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the will of nations and the resilience of people around the world. It is a very painful test that...

Oil production freeze is only the first step

Oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar announced on Tuesday an agreement to freeze their oil output levels provided other major producers...

The American energy story Obama won't tell the world

President Barack Obama is poised to repeat his history of weak-handed negotiations on the world stage when nearly 200 countries gather in Paris on...

Another boost to the private sector

Saudi Arabia was the first ahead of other G20 economies to introduce stimulus packages to support the private sector, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises...

ISIS has erased the line between foreign and domestic policy

Not since the Vietnam War has a foreign-policy issue transformed Western domestic politics in the way the threat from Islamic State (ISIS) has. Neither...

Politicizing the Hajj Stampede

It is a never-ending story. Whenever an emergency occurs during the Hajj season, certain parties blame Saudi Arabia who, nevertheless, continues to give pilgrims...

U.S. economy slows sharply as oil and gas slump deepens Kemp

The U.S. economy eked out anaemic growth in the final three months of 2015, and the struggling performance of the oil and gas sector...

At last, some order in Lebanon’s finances

Political settlement in Lebanon has been brought back to life. This is because the Lebanese parliament has passed its first budget since 2005, the...

China tackles smog with help from the World Bank

China's capital has become notorious for its smog but the biggest contributors to local air pollution are industrial furnaces, district heating systems, residential fires...

Davos: With the Saudis absent, Zarif’s fairy tales prevailed

Iranian Foreign Minster Mohammad Javad Zarif certainly got a free ride at this year’s World Economic Forum. His views on the region went completely...

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