The Latest Breaking News from Saudi Arabia

Non-oil private business activity in Saudi Arabia rose to an 8-year high in February, supported by a strong increase in demand and a positive economic outlook. The Kingdom’s Purchasing Managers Index hit 59.8, up from 58.2 in January, at the fastest rate of increase since March 2015. Sunday’s survey showed…

Salman bin Yousef Al-Dossary was named Saudi Media Minister in a Royal Order by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Sunday. Al-Dossary will be embarking on his new journey after have spent 12 years at Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. He will now forge the Kingdom’s media…

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, held talks with Mozambique's President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi in Riyadh on Saturday. Their talks focused on bilateral relations between their countries. They tackled joint cooperation and ways to develop it. They also covered issues of common interest. Saudi Arabia and Mozambique…

The 3rd Saudi relief plane, carrying 30 tons of assistance for the Ukrainian People, arrived at the Polish Rzeszow Airport near the Ukrainian border and will continue its route across the Polish border into Ukraine, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday. The cargo consists of shelter materials, electric generators, and…

Oil giant Saudi Aramco is preparing to join carmakers Geely and Renault in a new joint venture in hybrid and internal-combustion vehicles.

Three years after the musical “Umm Kulthum and the Golden Era” launched at London's Palladium theatre, producer Mona Khashoggi was able to achieve her dream of having the musical tribute performed in Saudi Arabia. Ithra Theater in Dhahran will be showing Khashoggi’s play starting March 7 and until March 17.

Saudi Arabia on Friday strongly condemned radical statements in which an Israeli official called for erasing the occupied West Bank town of Huwara. “The Kingdom completely rejects these racist and irresponsible remarks that reflect the magnitude of violence and extremism practiced by the occupying Israeli entity toward the brotherly Palestinian…

Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its support for Sudan and pledged to continue its efforts to help the North African nation until it overcomes the “exceptional circumstances” it is going through. Speaking on the occasion of Saudi Arabia marking three centuries since its founding, Saudi Ambassador to Sudan Ali bin Hassan Jaafar…

Saudi authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle over 2,015,116 captagon pills hidden in containers shaped as tomatoes and pomegranates on Friday. The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority said the operation was thwarted at Al Haditha port in Saudi Arabia on Friday. According to authorities the tablets were found during a…

Japan’s Marubeni Corp. has agreed to study clean hydrogen production in Saudi Arabia together with the Kingdom’s sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF). Saudi Arabia, a leading oil-producing nation and a key player in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is looking to add other types of energy sources, including…

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Vienna, praised Saudi Arabia’s efforts to dissociate the Islamic religion from the phenomena of terrorism and isolation, stressing the importance of the Makkah Document in confronting hatred and extremist ideas and spreading tolerance and coexistence. During an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat in Riyadh,…