Saudi Arabia

Business Series

Saudi Arabia invests heavily in Uber

Saudi Arabia's government investment fund has put $3.5 billion (3.1 billion euros) into Uber in a boost to the ride-hailing service's Middle East expansion.

02/06/2016

Economy

IMF welcomes Saudi reforms

The International Monetary Fund is applauding Saudi Arabia's sweeping reform plan calling it "an appropriately bold and far-reaching transformation".

19/05/2016

Economy

Challenges ahead for Khalid al-Falih, Saudi Arabia's new energy minister

Saudi Arabia's new energy minister is Khalid al-Falih, with an expanded portfolio and a focus on job creation and economic reform.

09/05/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia oil minister sacked in major cabinet reshuffle

The changes in government come just one week after announcing major economic reforms in the country hard hit by the oil price slump.

07/05/2016

Economy

Saudi Arabia responds to low oil prices with economic reform plan

Saudi Arabia has unveiled an economic reform plan including selling part of its state energy giant Saudi Aramco and using the cash raised for a massive global investment fund.

26/04/2016

Saudi Arabia

Obama arrives in Saudi Arabia amid US 'terror bill' debate

US President Barack Obama is in Riyadh to meet Saudi King Salman and attend a Gulf nations summit on stability, counter-terrorism and Iran.

20/04/2016

Saudi Arabia

US transfers 9 Yeminis to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay

The United States has transferred nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the US military prison at Guantanamo under a long-sought diplomatic deal

17/04/2016

Saudi Arabia

Bin Laden 'left $29 million to global jihad' - US authorities

Deceased Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden left most of his twenty-nine-million-dollar inheritance to the continuation of global jihad, newly-released

01/03/2016

Culture news

Shopping carts, selfie sticks and a changing earth - contemporary art in Jeddah

Jeddah's annual contemporary art festival - called 21, 39, from the city's latitude and longitude - this year has the theme environmental change under the title 'Earth and Ever After'.

24/02/2016

Saudi Arabia

Who is the global leader for importing major weapons?

The global supply of major weapons has increased 14 percent in the last four years, say the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

22/02/2016

Economy

Saudi Arabia and Russia agree oil output freeze but only if others do the same

Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar have agreed to freeze their country's oil output, but only if other major producers do the same. There will now be talks with Iran and Iraq.

16/02/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudis come under pressure to find regional deal with Iran

A day after the US announced fresh sanctions against Iran for ballistic missile tests Washington says flout UN rules, the EU announced it will

18/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Falconry, the "sport of Sheiks" in the UAE

Falconry racing is one of the most exclusive sports in the United Arab Emirates, with top birds of prey going for more than 200,000 euros. The sport

14/01/2016

Economy

Saudis begin opening oil industry to foreign investors

Saudi Arabia will open its oil refining ventures to foreign investors, but not state-owned exploration and production activities, according to

11/01/2016

Business Series

Saudi Arabia confirms potential share sale of Aramco

It’s been confirmed Saudi Arabia has been studying options and is considering a share sale of its oil company Saudi Aramco. If the move went ahead it

08/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi diplomats return from Tehran

Saudi Arabian diplomats who had been based in Tehran have returned home to Riyadh’s with stories of mistreatment at the hands of Iranian officials

06/01/2016

Economy

Oil supply could grow further after diplomatic fall out between Iran and Saudi Arabia

Oil from Saudi Arabia is a part of the rivalry it has with Iran and now it’s taking to the stage in the diplomatic fall out. How will that effect

05/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

More tit-for-tat in the Middle East following Shia cleric's execution

Euronews brings you the latest twists and turns in the rapidly-moving story

05/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia 'in the midst of implosion'

The regional religious and ethnic clashes in and around the Arabian peninsula risk tearing it apart. The Saudi execution of dissident Shia cleric

05/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-Iran row deepens as calls for restraint grow

The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a Shia cleric widened as Riyadh halted trade and travel ties on top of

05/01/2016

Europe News

Saudi Arabia-Iran tensions threaten world security, former minister tells euronews

The diplomatic rupture between Tehran and Riyadh – following the execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric by Saudi authorities – threatens world

04/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudis struggle with supremacy crisis

The tension in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has reached new heights, amid violent protests and diplomatic rifts. We study the deepening

04/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Shia Muslims and world leaders condemn Saudi executions

Shia Muslims around the world are furious with Saudi Arabia over the execution of one of their leading clerics, and acts of violence against Sunnis

04/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-Iranian rift escalates over executed cleric

Two days after Sunni Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi’ite cleric, thousands have marched in Baghdad and Iraq’s southern Shi’ite cities to

04/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic ties with Iran

Saudi Arabia has cut off diplomatic ties with Iran following the storming of its embassy in Tehran. Iran’s envoy has been given 48 hours to quit the

04/01/2016

Saudi Arabia

Iranians protest against Saudi execution of Shi'ite cleric al-Nimr

Hundreds of Shi’ite Muslims protested in Tehran on Sunday against Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Demonstrators

03/01/2016