RIYADH — Saudi weightlifter Abdullah Al-Qaisoom secured a silver medal in the 110 kg category at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship, held in Kazakhstan, marking a proud achievement for the Kingdom on the continental stage.
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RIYADH — Eight oil-producing nations of the OPEC+ alliance agreed on Saturday to increase their collective oil production by 548,000 barrels per day in August. The decision to further accelerate oil output hike was taken during a virtual meeting of (...)
Russian military forces were involved in the missile strike on Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 which crashed on 25 December 2024, a new audio recording and a letter published by an Azerbaijani news website on Tuesday purport to prove.
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ST. PETERSBURG — Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Thursday that OPEC+ has become a key guarantor of oil prices and the oil sector as a whole.
Speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on Thursday, he said that OPEC+ (...)
RIYADH — Eight OPEC+ member countries, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the UAE, will raise oil production by 411,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July 2025 as part of a phased reversal of previous voluntary output cuts, the alliance announced on (...)
RIYADH — Minister of Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif met with Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Yermek Sagimbayev in Riyadh on Sunday.
During the meeting, they discussed ways to bolster security collaboration (...)
RIYADH — The OPEC+ countries have agreed on Saturday to an oil output hike for a second month in a row in June with 411,000 barrels per day.
Last month, the eight OPEC+ countries made a larger-than-planned production increase for May, also of (...)
Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago, the Associated Press reported.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 (...)
KUWAIT — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan participated in the third meeting of the strategic dialogue between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Central Asian countries, held in Kuwait.
The meeting focused on advancing cooperation (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, represented by the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha), and Kazakhstan, represented by the Anti-Corruption Agency, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to combat cross-border corruption cases.
The MoU (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Russia and six other OPEC+ countries, agreed on Thursday to boost oil supply in May 2025. The OPEC+ countries, which also include Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman, agreed to raise (...)
Dozens of passengers were forced to stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane at Denver International Airport as they evacuated the aircraft after one of its engines caught fire Thursday evening, sending thick black smoke billowing into the (...)
RIYADH — The meeting of OPEC+ alliance has decided on Monday to proceed with a planned April oil output increase. "This gradual increase may be paused or reversed subject to market conditions and this flexibility will allow the group to continue to (...)
MADINAH — A fourth batch of pilgrims hosted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Guests Program for Hajj, Umrah and Visit has arrived in Madinah.
The current batch of guest pilgrims includes 250 men and women from 14 countries from South (...)
RIYADH — The meeting of the OPEC+ alliance ended on Monday with a decision to keep the current oil production policy unchanged. The OPEC+ members reaffirmed their commitment to production cuts aimed at ensuring the global oil market stability.
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RIYADH — The Council of Ministers on Tuesday reaffirmed Saudi Arabia's support for Syria and Lebanon and their peoples. The Cabinet session, chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, pledged its backing for the (...)
Kazakhstan has decided to send the downed Azerbaijan Airlines flight recorders to Brazil, Kazakhstan's government sources told Euronews in a statement, in a move which indicates the country's will for full and transparent disclosure of the (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Saturday for what he described as a "tragic incident" after the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan, which claimed the lives of 38 people.
The crash (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no immediate plans to engage in discussions aimed at resolving the Ukrainian crisis, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Saturday.
Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov dismissed the notion of (...)
Azerbaijan Airlines says the preliminary results of an investigation into the crash of its plane in Kazakhstan on 25 December have blamed "physical and technical external interference".
Thirty-eight people died when the Embraer jet came down at high (...)
A Russian military expert has said it appears that the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan was brought down by "something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile."
Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 took off from the Azerbaijani (...)
As harrowing details emerge of the last moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which crashed on Wednesday in Aktau, the flight crew who did their best to save the passengers until the last moment are being hailed as heroes.
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Azerbaijan held a day of mourning on Thursday for the dozens of victims of an airliner crash in Kazakhstan, as questions were being asked over the cause of the disaster.
The reasons why Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 came down are still unknown. (...)
A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed near the city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday, leaving multiple casualties, according to Kazakh authorities.
The Kazakh Transport Ministry confirmed the crash of the Embraer 190, operated by (...)
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman have sent cables to President Ilham Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan, offering condolences and expressing sympathy over the victims of the (...)
