Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project, a vast tourist development aimed at opening the economy, has been registered as a standalone company and will be headed by a former director of London’s Canary Wharf business zone, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Sunday.

Qatar has ordered shops to remove goods originating from a group of Saudi Arabian-led countries which a year ago imposed a wide-ranging boycott on the emirate, Doha officials said Saturday.

Saudi Arabia arrested prominent rights campaigner Mohammed al-Bajadi, Amnesty International said on Friday, as part of a crackdown mostly targeting advocates of women’s rights in the conservative kingdom.

Saudi Arabia has released four women’s rights activists who were among a group arrested last week, a month before a ban on women driving is set to end, fellow activists and Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Saudi Ambassador to Bahrain Abdullah Al-Sheikh said that trade with Bahrain reached 30 billion SR, which amounts to 3 billion BD, adding that this is “a significant number”.

A Saudi-led military coalition foiled attacks by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement against commercial vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red Sea, Saudi and Emirati state media said on Wednesday.

International rights groups have condemned the arrests this week of at least seven prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists who previously campaigned for the right to drive.

The Saudi State Security Apparatus said on Friday (May 18, 2018) that it arrested 7 seven suspects accused of making contacts with foreign circles.

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least five people, mostly women who previously agitated for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system, rights activists said on Friday.

Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States, has all but won Iraq’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shi’ite leader.

Teaching manuals in Gulf Arab-financed mosques in Belgium promote anti-semitic stereotypes of Jews and call for the persecution of homosexuals, according to a leaked Belgian intelligence report.

Transplant administrative coordinator at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Hassan Al-Khanani, said that “the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation signed a deal with Bahrain, represented by King Fahad Specialist Hospital with Salmaniya Medical Complex, to transplant organs to Bahraini patients in Bahrain, in case of stroke deaths.”

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa hailed yesterday (Wednesday, May 2, 2018) Saudi Arabia and its king during his meeting with Editors-in-Chief of Saudi newspapers.

A Saudi Arabian court began the trial of two Jordanians accused of spying against the kingdom for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya said on Monday.

British MP Tom Brake raised a question to UK Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, on whether he had discussions with the Saudi Government on the implications of Saudi Arabia's reform program on its influence in Bahrain.

The Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said Qatar should pay for US military presence in Syria.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his "serious concern" over the continued jailing of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.

Iran told the United Nations it was time to move away from "hegemonic illusions" that have fueled devastating wars.

Bahraini companies resumed importing cement from Saudi Arabia after the latter retracted imposing fees on exports.

Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh said Friday the global market has the capacity to absorb higher oil prices, drawing a swift reaction from US President Donald Trump who accused OPEC of inflating prices.