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Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains
Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains. According to Bloomberg, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz appeared on stage with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann to talk for at least the second time since November about their firm’s $350 million investment in Flow, which is Neumann’s new residential real estate company. …
Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia – Nour news
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has suspended a fifth round of talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, Nour news, a website affiliated to Iran’s top security body reported on Sunday. Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Saturday his country would host a new round of Saudi-Iranian talks starting on Wednesday. The Saudi government media office CIC …
Guantanamo detainee repatriated to mental health facility in Saudi Arabia
Authorities once alleged that the detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was an al Qaeda operative who had planned to be the “20th hijacker” on 9/11 but failed to board United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Al-Qahtani was captured near the border of Afghanistan in December 2001 and was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention …
9/11 Suspect Is Returned to Saudi Arabia for Mental Health Care
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The Biden administration on Monday repatriated to Saudi Arabia for mental health care a prisoner who had been tortured so badly by U.S. interrogators that he was ruled ineligible for trial as the suspected would-be 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks. The prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, in his 40s, is the …
Technology supports advanced position of Saudi Arabia
MAKKAH: Arora Akanksha, an audit coordinator at the UN Development Project, faces a tough challenge as the first female millennial candidate running for the role of UN secretary-general. For years, the selection process at the UN has been a closed-door process; candidates are appointed by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of the UN …
Saudi Aramco profit drops after Covid-battered year, upholds dividend
A worker at an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Stanislav Krasilnikov | TASS | Getty Images Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported a 44% slump in full-year 2020 results, but maintained its $75 billion dollar dividend payout, with CEO Amin Nasser describing …
Inside the Biden team’s deliberations over punishing the Saudi crown prince
The reaction in Washington was swift and condemnatory. Republicans and Democrats in Congress called the response insufficient and urged the Biden administration to directly punish the crown prince. Human rights groups pushed for a broader freeze on weapons to Saudi Arabia until the crown prince faces justice. A torrent of criticisms came in from prominent …
KPMG: 98% of Saudi CEOs set to invest in cloud technology in 2021
DUBAI: Getting into a prestigious Ivy League university is no easy task. According to the latest figures, California’s Stanford University was especially picky, with a 2019 acceptance rate of just 4 percent. Columbia and Harvard followed with 5 percent, while Princeton and Yale were slightly easier with 6 percent of applicants getting offers.The race to get …
Saudi Prince Approved Khashoggi’s Death, U.S. Report Says
Because the recording was collected by Turkey, an allied country, it was not within the power of the C.I.A. to declassify a transcript of the recording, at least not without the blessing of Ankara, current and former officials said. Such details are part of the mosaic of facts that led the C.I.A. to conclude Prince …
Dustin Johnson Wins the Saudi Arabia International
I know what you’re thinking: DJ to repeat at Augusta. No question. For the second time in three years, Dustin Johnson won the Saudi International by defeating Justin Rose and Tony Finau by 2 shots. The recent Masters champ and No. 1 Golfer in the World, went into Sunday with a 2-shot lead and despite …
