RIYADH — A senior White House official told CBS News on Saturday that Iran had “agreed in principle to dispose of highly enriched uranium,” a claim that — if true — would
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RIYADH — Asim Munir landed in Tehran on Friday evening to negotiate with the state his own defence treaty obliges him to
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Q1 2026 GDP release looks like vindication for Vision 2030: non-oil activity up 2.8% year-on-year while the oil
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ROME — The fifth round of US-Iran nuclear negotiations concluded at the Omani Embassy in Rome’s Camilluccia neighbourhood on May 23, 2026,
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s OPEC+ production quota for June 2026 is 10.291 million barrels per day. In April, the kingdom produced 6.879
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has formally halted all construction on The Line, the 170-kilometre mirrored linear city that served
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DOHA — A Qatari negotiating team arrived in Tehran on Friday to help close the remaining gaps in the Hormuz memorandum of
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 22 published a jurisdiction map anchoring its claimed maritime management zone to two
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RIYADH — Al-Arabiya, the Saudi state-aligned broadcaster majority-owned by the Public Investment Fund, on May 22 published what it described as the
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RIYADH — When Saudi Arabia restored US military access to Prince Sultan Air Base on May 7, 2026, after a four-day suspension
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NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has recruited 137 countries to demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It needs two more
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser has given the oil market a date: if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan praised President Donald Trump on May 20 for giving “negotiations with Iran additional
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ABU DHABI — The consensus framing of the Saudi-UAE relationship in May 2026 treats the two countries as allies under strain —
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund raised $7 billion in May in its largest-ever single bond sale, drawing an orderbook of
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JEDDAH — The most consequential foreign-policy document issued against Saudi Arabia in 2026 is not a sanctions package, a UN resolution, or
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RIYADH — Donald Trump told CBS News on May 21 that he was “an hour away” from ordering fresh strikes on Iran
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ANTALYA — The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the London-based defence think tank, published a formal analysis in May 2026 identifying Turkey,
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on May 20 for his second visit in seven days, carrying the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund spent $5.3 billion building LIV Golf into the most expensive diplomatic instrument in sporting history,
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Changed: True -> False LONDON — Britain concluded a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council on 20 May 2026 —
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MUSCAT — On May 13, a delegation led by Abbas Baqerpour, director general for International Legal Affairs at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, sat
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Changed: True -> False {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on May 20 publicly endorsed President Donald
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Changed: True -> False {“content”: “ ISLAMABAD u2014 The United States transmitted a new draft peace agreement to Iran on May 21
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RIYADH — The ceasefire Mohammed bin Salman spent fifty-two days building — which persuaded Donald Trump to cancel strikes on May 19,
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