Tag: Mohammed bin Salman

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 22:45 UTC

  Brazil joining OPEC+ as of next year

  

  Effective Jan. 1, 2024, South America's largest country will join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Brazil's Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira announced this week after participating virtually in a meeting with other colleagues from the bloc.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Moscow and Kyiv carry out unexpected swap of POWs

  

  Moscow and Kyiv carried out Wednesday an unexpected swap of prisoners of war (POWs) with 215 Russian and 55 Ukrainian prisoners released, it was reported.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  Oil-rich Middle East and its inevitable declining power

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – The only officials present were American and Saudi,” tweeted the Saudi Arabian foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, but he was lying. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really did fly in to Saudi Arabia to spend a few hours with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Saudi Arabia seeks to diversify economy, floats oil giant Aramco in search of funds

  

  Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company finally kick-started its initial public offering (IPO) on Sunday, announcing its intention to float on the domestic bourse in what could be the world's biggest listing as the kingdom seeks to diversify its economy away from oil.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  US Senate blames Saudi prince Salman for Khashoggi's death and votes to stop military aid in Yemen

  

  The US Senate has voted to withdraw US military aid for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen and to blame the kingdom's crown prince for the murder of a journalist. The historic vote is the first time any chamber of US Congress has agreed to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Federal court in Argentina examining criminal complaint against Saudi prince

  

  A federal court in Argentina is examining a criminal complaint against the controversial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for alleged war crimes committed in Yemen.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 20:23 UTC

  Putin meeting with Saudi crown prince in BA cannot be ruled out

  

  A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud during the upcoming G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires is not to be ruled out, according to a Kremlin official source.

• Saturday, November 17th 2018 - 12:55 UTC

  CIA finds Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince involved in killing of WP columnist

  

  The CIA has come to the conclusion that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the assassination of Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi, it was reported Friday.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Khashoggi murder: Top US official meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh

  

  A senior US official has held talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince in Riyadh, despite growing concern over the Saudis' role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Mohammed bin Salman on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Saudi Arabia: no intention of a repeat of a 1973-style oil embargo

  

  Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worsening crisis over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.