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Vivian Nereim
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*مراسلة نيويورك تايمز في شبه الجزيرة العربية* Gulf bureau chief for . Journalist in the Arabian Peninsula since 2011. Alum &
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What does $500 billion build in the Saudi desert? The investigative project I've been working on for the past 6 months is finally out. It goes deep inside the story of Neom, MBS's science fiction-inspired plan to create a whole new region from scratch.
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My latest from Port Sudan, where everyone gathering to flee has a painful story of escape. “I feel I have a family to protect by any means necessary,” said Ahmed, 21, traveling with his ailing mother. “And you don’t have guns, you don’t have power..."
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"Retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who was a national security adviser to Obama, reported in 2017 that he expected to collect between $40,000 and $60,000 a month as a consultant to the [Saudi] Defense Ministry, according to FOIA documents..."
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Interestingly, Graham touched on all of Saudi Arabia's requests from the U.S. that we mentioned in this story below (nuclear program, weapons sales, security agreement/treating kingdom more like NATO ally) and said he supports them all
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Lindsey Graham talks about his-about face on Saudi Arabia in an interview with Saudi channel Al-Arabiya: “The world has changed, Saudi Arabia has taken a new path. 2018 still looms large, I’ll just be honest with you...But, I see things happening here..."
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"Despite U.S. objections, the Gulf countries are using the discounted Russian [oil] products internally, including for consumption and refining purposes, and exporting their own barrels at market rates, boosting their profits."
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"A Dubai-based businessman who volunteers with the Indian Consulate on repatriation issues...told the AP that authorities had identified the dead as six Sudanese, four Indians, three Pakistanis, a Cameroonian, an Egyptian and a Jordanian."
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It's likely that Qatar will become the only Arab country that remains openly against normalization with Syria. “The Syrian people are still displaced, innocent people are in prison,” Qatar's PM said, saying they're sticking to their stance.
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Officials from the GCC, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq will meet in Saudi Arabia today to discuss how they should approach Bashar al-Assad+Syria, attempting to coordinate policy ahead of an Arab League summit next month. Our take on the regional shift is here:
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"Sen. Lindsey O. Graham...who once promised a 'bipartisan tsunami' against Saudi Arabia in the wake of the 2018 assassination of...Jamal Khashoggi, held what he called a 'very productive' meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday."
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“It wasn’t a matter of pricing, or a matter of profit or a matter of income,” the minister said of the 2020 decision. “Rather, it’s a matter of ‘To be or not to be’; who will be the master of this sector?”
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"Under high emissions scenarios, most of the region will experience substantial levels of warming by the 2060s, leading to an increase in associated deaths from about two per 100,000 today to about 123 per 100,000 in the period between 2081 and 2100."
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“The nature of Dubai is changing,” said Metin Mitchell, founder of...[an] executive recruitment firm working in the region for decades. “This is becoming a super dynamic economy again, but it’s also becoming more of a Monaco, servicing the...affluent..."
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On Saudi demanding economic reforms from Egypt & other aid recipients: "Prince Mohammed has transformed the way that Saudi Arabia uses its financial muscle, chasing higher investment returns & deploying oil revenue for leverage in the Middle East & beyond"
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"Speaking at a conference in Riyadh in January, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the energy minister, said that plans to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel...were even 'more important' than proposed reactors...."
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"Prince Mohammed...believes he has the right to exploit the kingdom’s potentially vast uranium deposits for both energy and export. That would create a new revenue source for the kingdom and could give Saudi Arabia greater geopolitical heft."
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"Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have agreed to meet during the month of Ramadan, the Saudi Press Agency reported early Monday."
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"Ammar Al Khudairy, the chairman of Credit Suisse Group AG’s largest shareholder, has resigned just days after his comments helped trigger a slump in the stock and bonds that prompted the Swiss government to step in and arrange its takeover."
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