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The project is a vote of confidence to Saudi Arabia's ambitious Vision 2030 agenda to diversify the economy away from oil, despite an uptick in attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on the kingdom in recent weeks.
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US State Department says departure orders for embassy staff in Saudi Arabia only US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said on Wednesday that the US has "issued an ordered departure for non-emergency US government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia only." In a statement on X, he wrote that the decision resulted from increasing Houthi attacks, including on "civilian airports and other critical infrastructure resulting in civilian casualties and severe travel disruptions…
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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed security force held hostage by Haitian gangs. Intense fighting in the area has hampered earlier recovery efforts.
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Iran's Araghchi says Iran prepared to give diplomacy another chance Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that “Iran is prepared to give diplomacy another chance,” if it sees “strong evidence of a sincere desire by the US” to build trust towards a resolution to the conflict. Sharing an opinion piece he wrote in the Financial Times, Araghchi added in a post on X that “if US chooses war over diplomacy, it’ll certainly result in an even greater strategic failure”. Iran is pre…
