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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman walks past Russian honour guards during a welcoming ceremony upon his arrival at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow, Russia October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

After the Saudi-Russian Summit

by Ghassan Charbel | Oct 6, 2017 | Opinion

Several factors push the journalist who headed to Moscow to cover the Saudi-Russian Summit to describe it as an exceptional event. It is the first time a Saudi monarch walks into the Kremlin Palace. The keenness of Russian President Vladimir Putin to receive the king...

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Clothing shops selling life jackets are seen in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey, August 10, 2015. Reuters photo

Turkey Ranked Third in Economic Growth among G20

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Aug 19, 2017 | Business

Ankara- Turkey has occupied the third rank among the 20 major economies as to economic growth after its average growth reached 5 percent during the first quarter of 2017. In the presence of officials and ministers from 26 states and before the inauguration of Izmir...

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World Needs $94 Trillion for Infrastructure by 2040

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2017 | Business

London- G20-backed Global Infrastructure Hub said on Tuesday that the world needs $94 trillion for infrastructure investments by 2040. Nearly a fifth of the needed investment risks being unfunded if current spending trends continue. To close the spending gap, annual...

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz chairing a cabinet session. (SPA)

Saudi: Qatar Seeks Break Up of Gulf System, Global and Arab Security

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Jeddah – The Saudi cabinet reviewed on Monday the contents of the joint statement issued by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt after receiving the Qatari reply from Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to its list of demands to Doha. It also...

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President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit on July 7 in Hamburg. (Associated Press/Evan Vucci)

A Reading into the US-Russia Meeting

by David Ignatius | Jul 9, 2017 | Opinion

The self-proclaimed “deal maker” finally got the beginnings of what could be an important diplomatic agreement in Friday’s Russian-American summit in Hamburg. For a rookie, President Trump appears to have avoided big mishaps that sometimes plague such great-power...