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Oil Market

Oil prices surge strongly from 18-year lows

Oil Market

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas

Oil prices surge strongly from 18-year lows

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas

Oil Price War

OPEC+ failed to reach an agreement on further production cuts to shore up sagging prices as the coronavirus hit the global economy hard.

Price war rages as Saudi to up oil exports to record highs

Huthi Rebels

Their interception sent shrapnel falling on residential neighbourhoods

Saudi intercepts missiles over Riyadh

Coronavirus

A Saudi Arabian Airlines passenger plane

Saudi restores flights for US, UK citizens

G20 summit

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz speaks via video link during a virtual G20 summit on coronavirus disease

G20 leaders pledge to inject $5 trillion into global economy

Coronavirus

On Wednesday, the financial ratings agency Moody's estimated the G20's overall gross domestic product would contract by 0.5 percent this year

Saudi to chair G20 videoconference over recession threats

Khashoggi probe

Riyadh insists he was killed in a "rogue" operation

Turkey charges 20 Saudis in Khashoggi murder case

Coronavirus outbreak

Saudi Arabia imposed a temporary lockdown on the province of Qatif

Coronavirus infections spike in Saudi Arabia

Gulf

"If not now during the spread of the virus to allow us to communicate with our families, then when?"

Gulf residents urge telecom firms to ease internet call restrictions

Coronavirus outbreak

Riyadh

Saudi king imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew

Coronavirus outbreak

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz delivers a televised speech regarding the outbreak of the coronavirus disease

Saudi king urges solidarity to confront coronavirus

Coronavirus outbreak

Emirates airlines

UAE imposes sweeping entry restrictions over coronavirus

Saudi Economy

Adding to the chain of events are the recent arrests of King Salman's brother and nephew, which triggered speculation of political instability

Virus-hit Saudi economy feels pressure from oil crash

Saudi Aramco

Global oil prices have gone into meltdown as the novel coronavirus hits the global economy

Saudi Aramco to tap into oil inventories to boost output

Gulf

The slide was led by the UAE bourses of Abu Dhabi and Dubai which dived by 7.8 percent and 6.2 percent

Gulf stock markets tumble despite virus measures

Coronavirus outbreak

Turkish television showed pilgrims in Ankara wearing protective masks taken in buses to the dormitories.

Turkey quarantines thousands of pilgrims from Saudi

Corruption in Saudi Arabia

Bribery

Almost 300 Saudi public officials detained in new corruption probes

Coronavirus outbreak

According to the plan, money will be deposited into banks in exchange for postponing due instalments for the private sector

Saudi, UAE announce measures to curb virus effect

Saudi Aramco

These are the first financial results after Aramco's historic $29.4 billion initial public offering

Saudi Aramco profits slide 20.6% in 2019

Oil Market

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak

Saudi Arabia pushes cheap oil in struggle with Russia

Coronavirus outbreak

Kuwaiti healthy ministry workers prepare to scan expatriates living in Kuwait who returned from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon

Number of coronavirus infections passes 10,000 mark in Middle East

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