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The Palestinian Authority (PA) stopped all contact with Tel Aviv in response to the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, which killed 11 Palestinians. Palestinian sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Authority was dealt a treacherous blow two days after it withdrew the Security Council draft…

The Saudi Cabinet, chaired by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, approved the framework for granting incentives for the localization of priority goods and services under the Vision 2030’s national localization strategy. Saudi Arabia’s Local Content and Government Procurement Authority had recently reduced the value of high-value contracts from SAR…

The Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) signed five contracts worth $220 million with the companies implementing the electricity interconnection project between the Gulf states and Iraq. The Authority will construct lines of 295 km from the al-Wafra station in Kuwait to the al-Faw station in southern Iraq to transfer…

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Saudi Real Estate Authority said that it had received, through its electronic services, over 89,000 requests for real estate licenses in just two days after the real estate brokerage law came into force. The Authority issued over 72,000 licenses to individual practitioners and 17,100 licenses to establishments. Spokesman Tayseer al-Mufarrej…

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh warned Monday that Israeli sanctions on the Palestinian Authority “will promptly lead to its collapse.” Speaking to Haaretz, Shtayyeh was referring to the retaliatory sanctions the Israeli cabinet imposed over the weekend on the PA, including seizing 140 million shekels ($39 million) in tax revenues.…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed that foreign currency is available to release imported goods in ports, assuring that the government has dollars. During the inauguration of two medical and industrial gas plants and a tri-generation plant in the chemical industries complex in Abu Rawash, Giza, Sisi said state was…

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