SUSRIS Daily News – Excerpts from International Media Reports
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News-2012-12-31
Saudi Arabia raised its 2013 expenditure target by almost a fifth to a record 820 billion riyals ($219 billion) as the world’s biggest oil exporter pushes ahead with expansion plans to diversify away from oil.The government expects 2013 revenue of 829 billion riyals, giving it a surplus of 9 …
The end of any potential ‘two state solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh was finally forced from office and more from Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog. …
The events of the last two years in the Middle East have tested to destruction a series of interpretative models. Indeed, the arguments of many liberal interventionists, foreign policy ‘realists’ and anti-imperialists have all looked equally facile when confronted by the new realities at …
Saudi Arabia on Saturday disclosed a budget that projects total expenditure in 2013 of 820 billion Saudi riyals ($219 billion), maintaining the large government-spending program it launched in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. The expenditure on education, health and other programs is …
A recently released report by Jadwa Investment (
There are many reasons behind the conservative current’s ‘hatred’ towards Adel Fakeih even if at some point, it is overlapping with some business reasons; they are obsessed with fighting decisions that allow women to work, and they want to limit the work of women in women’s necessities stores. …
An Archaeologist has discovered what he believes to be the ruins of a buried Christian empire in the highlands of Yemen. The find has led to theories that there may have once been a Christian church in Mecca. A stone carving of a Christian figure was found in Zafar, some 581 miles south …
The last hearing session of one of Saudi Arabia’s rare public trials of two prominent human rights activists Mohammad Al-Qahtani and Abdullah Al-Hamid was held today [Dec 29, 2012] at the Riyadh Criminal Court. In the last hearing session, the defendants were questioned by the judge, and today, …
Massive protests in the Anbar governorate of Iraq have given rise to the idea of a ‘State of Western Iraq’ that would encompass the country’s Sunni population. Some say this is an unrealistic scheme that will soon be forgotten, but others believe it may soon become a serious proposition….
In his first week as U.S. president, Barack Obama told Iran’s leaders he would extend a hand if they would ‘unclench their fist’ and persuade the West they weren’t trying to build a nuclear bomb. So far, they have not. In response, the United States and the European Union this year took a …
Palestinians will certainly end another calendar year divided between the Hamas leadership of government in Gaza and the PLO’s control over the prime ministry in Ramallah.Both sides are hoping that Egypt would be able to help them resolve some of the last remaining obstacles. But Egypt’s …
The man stands among the blackened, shell-shattered buildings, and reaches up to encompass them in a broad sweep of his wiry arms. ‘This,’ he proclaims, ‘is the state of Abu Ali Sulaibi.’ The ruined corner of downtown Aleppo does not, of course, constitute a state and nor does it belong to …
The new trading arm of state-run Saudi Aramco has finalised a January to June 2013 term contract to sell jet fuel with at least one buyer, traders said on Friday. Saudi Aramco Products Trading Company has agreed to sell undisclosed volumes of the fuel at a premium of about $2.70 a barrel …
Alireza Food Services Co. Ltd., exclusive McDonald’s franchisee for the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, announced the opening of two new restaurants — the third restaurant to open in Taif, Faisaliah, and second restaurant in Jazan, bringing the total to 54 restaurants in the Kingdom’s …
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) will organize a boycott of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar unless the nation improves migrant worker conditions. The group also plans to boycott the UAE (if selected for the 2024 Olympics) if genuine labor reform is not realized. As both nations …
Foreign airlines may need about three to six months to obtain operating licences letting them enter Saudi Arabia’s domestic aviation market, a spokesman for the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Saturday. GACA announced on Friday that Qatar Airways and Bahrain’s national …
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