Saudi Arabia’s 170km-long desert city is in trouble. The futuristic, carbon-neutral Neom project is turning into financial quicksand. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has staked his legacy on ...

Housekeepers from East Africa suffer beatings, starvation and sexual assault in Saudi Arabia. Here’s what else we learned about the cross-border trade in domestic workers. By Justin Scheck and ...

For years, Saudi Arabia has leaned on advisory firms to drive an expensive overhaul of its economy. But the kingdom’s once insatiable appetite for foreign consultants is dimming, adding pressure ...

Launched just over a decade ago, the Renegade pioneered the idea that a Jeep could be compact. Buyers worldwide immediately loved this B segment model but back then something even smaller than the ...

Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy restricts almost all political rights and civil liberties. No officials at the national level are elected. The regime relies on pervasive surveillance, the ...

Private yachts were moored nearby, and some of the biggest celebrities were in attendance as Saudi Arabia partially opened Neom, its ambitious $500 billion mega-city in the desert. The event was ...

The smoke has barely cleared from an Oval Office blow-up that derailed US-Ukrainian relations, and the war in Ukraine is already at a new inflection point. But one country --Saudi Arabia -- is ...

Neom was designed to be a marvel of modern civilisation—an ultra-high-tech, sustainable city emerging from the desert. With plans for a 106-mile-long mirrored skyscraper, an artificial ski resort, and ...

Russia's military said Tuesday that its air defenses had shot down 337 Ukrainian drones overnight across 10 Russian regions, in what appears to have been the biggest Ukrainian drone attack on ...

Ukrainian and American representatives met in Jeddah on Tuesday. LONDON -- The United States and Ukraine are calling for a 30-day ceasefire, subject to the acceptance of Russia, following talks in ...

Marco Rubio said he hoped the pause in US aid to Ukraine could be "resolved" but that Tuesday's talks "would be key to that". The US's top diplomat has said that he sees promise in Ukraine's ...

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