DHAHRAN — Brent crude above $100 per barrel was supposed to be Saudi Arabia’s windfall. Instead it is the price tag on
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RIYADH — SABIC, the petrochemical giant 70%-owned by Saudi Aramco, filed a formal Tadawul regulatory disclosure on April 8 stating it “cannot
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DHAHRAN — US Central Command began enforcing a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on April
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FOUND Length: 28823 -> 29122 “ DHAHRAN u2014 Brent crude crossed $100 a barrel on April 12 for the first time since
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RIYADH — The United States launched a naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13 without a coalition, without a United Nations
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RIYADH — South Korea’s presidential chief of staff landed in Riyadh on Sunday carrying a handwritten message from President Lee Jae-myung to
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LONDON — A Russian-flagged supertanker formerly sanctioned by the US Treasury for shipping Iranian crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz toward
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MUSCAT — The United States declared a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on April 12, 2026. Within hours, Oman’s foreign
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RIYADH — The Pentagon just told Saudi Arabia, on paper and in public, that the missiles keeping its cities alive are not
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BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes killed 11 people in southern Lebanon overnight on April 12, hitting homes in the villages of Maaroub and
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has formally committed naval forces to the US-led multinational coalition tasked with reopening the Strait
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RIYADH — The United States declared a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on April 12, 2026. Saudi Arabia said nothing.
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that its East-West Pipeline has been restored to full 7-million-barrel-per-day capacity — four days after
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WASHINGTON — The US Treasury’s General License U — a 30-day authorization permitting Indian refineries to purchase Iranian crude oil — expires
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TEHRAN — The IRGC Navy warned on April 12 that any military vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz “will
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraq’s ambassador on Saturday and handed her a formal note of protest over drone attacks launched from
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraq’s ambassador on April 12, 2026 — the first time Riyadh has formally held Baghdad accountable for
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has deployed approximately 13,000 ground troops and up to 18 fighter jets to King Abdulaziz Air Base in Dhahran,
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DUBAI — Two empty supertankers turned back from the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday as US-Iran talks in Islamabad collapsed, but a
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Brent at $96 After a Declared Blockade Is the Price of Disbelief DHAHRAN — The United States Navy has declared a blockade
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ISLAMABAD — Twenty-one hours of talks ended on Sunday with the United States demanding that Iran surrender its entire uranium enrichment programme,
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan called UN Secretary-General António Guterres on approximately April 1, ten days before the
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TEHRAN — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has publicly accused IRGC commanders Ahmad Vahidi and Ali Abdollahi of “acting unilaterally” and destroying any
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia announced on April 12 that its East-West Pipeline has been restored to full 7-million-barrel-per-day pumping capacity — the
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia has built an informal rationing system for crude oil exports to Asia, allocating barrels bilaterally to allied governments
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