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Saudi’s Mobily Ventures invests in Dubai-based logistics app Fetchr

The app facilitates package pick-up and delivery via a phone’s GPS coordinates

Oil price slump to start affecting Saudi banks -S&P

S&P said historical data suggested there was a clear link between non-performing loans and oil prices

Saudi Aramco fire caused by electrical short circuit, officials confirm

The blaze, which happened earlier this week, killed 10 people and injured more than 200

Saudi Telecom spending billions to cope with data traffic – CEO

STC said that it is continuing to invest in both mobile and fixed networks while modernising their IT systems

Rising oil output boosts Saudi economic growth

Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, expanded 3.8 per cent from a year earlier in the second quarter, accelerating from a revised 2.3 per cent in the first quarter

Saudi-led coalition air strike kills 36 Yemeni civilians -residents

Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri denied the strike had hit a civilian target

Fire at Saudi Aramco workers compound kills 10, injures more than 200

Aramco said the fire broke out in a basement of the Radium residential compound in Al Khobar

About 22% of Gulf firms say they only ‘talk about innovation’

A new survey shows that Gulf firms are not big risk takers in terms of innovation

Stock news: Saudi Arabia surges, boosted by stronger oil

Saudi’s market suffered the most from panic selling in the Gulf and is still down 12.8 per cent month-to-date

Saudi-led air strikes kill 10 people in central Yemen – officials

The war in Yemen has killed more than 4,300 people, many of them civilians

White House confirms that Saudi King Salman will meet Obama on Sept. 4

The two leaders will discuss Syria, Yemen and steps to counter Iran’s destabilising activities in the region, a White House spokesman said

Saudi’s King Salman to visit the US in September

The monarch’s visit next month will be his first official trip to the US after ascending the throne earlier this year

Saudi Arabia holding main suspect in 1996 Khobar bombing

The attack killed 19 U.S. service personnel and wounded almost 500 people

Saudi Arabia executes four people in one day, death penalties soar

The total number of judicial killings in the kingdom has reached 130 so far in 2015

Saudi reassures on riyal peg, forwards market pressure eases

The kingdom is expected to achieve economic growth in 2015 of 3 per cent

Saudi Arabia records 49 MERS cases in one week

Riyadh saw 47 MERS cases over the last week while the cities of Najran and Abha recorded one infection each during this period

Mood sours among Saudi businessmen as oil slides

Oil has dropped to six-year lows, less than half mid-2014 levels

Saudi Aramco considers new industrial city project in east

The new city will be built around energy-related industries, a source said

Two pilots killed when helicopter comes down on Saudi-Yemen border-coalition

The coalition said it was investigating the cause of the crash, which took place in Saudi Arabia’s border province of Jizan

Fitch revises Saudi Arabia’s outlook to negative

Fitch said on Friday it expects the general government deficit to widen to 14.4 per cent of GDP in 2015

Saudi’s new airport opens up new horizons

The opening up of the $1.2bn international airport in Madinah – the kingdom’s first privatised airport – heralds new possibilities

Saudi-led alliance wins Yemen battles, but peace remains elusive

The advanced weapons deployed by the Gulf states have powered local fighters against Houthi rebels

Japan’s JGC wins Saudi Aramco’s shale gas contract

The project, known as System A, will involve building processing facilities, wellheads and pipelines for gas in Turaif

Egypt, Saudi Aramco sign $1.4bn oil products deal – minister

The deal stipulates that Egypt pay Aramco within a year

Saudi executes two Chadians for al Qaeda killings

Issa Saleh Hassan Barkaj and Ishaq Issa Ahmed Shakila were executed in Mecca on Thursday morning, the ministry said in a statement

Saudi stock market plunge not caused by govt selling shares

The main Saudi stock index has plunged 12 per cent this month

Surge in new MERS cases recorded in Riyadh

The kingdom has confirmed 58 new cases of MERS since the start of August

Saudi Aramco to appoint new CEO for trading arm

Yasser Mufti, head of mergers and acquisitions at Aramco, will replace Said al-Hadrami, sources said

Saudi-led coalition bombs Yemen ‘aid port’ Hodeida

Hodeida is held by the Houthi rebels and allied army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh

Saudi confirms two soldiers killed on border with Yemen

The two soldiers were reportedly fighting with Yemeni Houthi rebels in Jazan province