Canadians protest arms sale to Saudi Arabia in ongoing row over perpetuating war in Yemen
A screen grab from a video released by Yemen’s Houthi movement allegedly shows two Saudi light armoured vehicles (LAVs) destroyed by the group in an August offensive. Unverified reports identify them as Canadian-made LAVs January 26, 2021 at 3:42 pm
Canada s role in the Saudi led war in Yemen has sparked fresh protest in the province of Ontario as members of World Beyond War and Labour Against the Arms Trade blocked trucks outside a transportation firm that ships light armoured vehicles (LAV) to Saudi Arabia.
Demonstrators blocked Paddock Transport International trucks in Hamilton, a city about 70 kilometres west of Toronto, for a few hours yesterday as part of a global day of action against the ongoing war in Yemen.
FII 2021: Saudi Arabia is leading debate and innovation in FinTech
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The year 2020 exposed the futility of attempting to make economic predictions. When world leaders, global CEOs, investors, international experts, thinkers, bankers, businessmen and policymakers gathered under the sunny Riyadh sky in late October 2019 for the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), no one could predict that a small strand of replicating protein would bring the activities of the most successful species on the planet to a near standstill for the better part of the next 12 months.
Fast forward 14 months, the FII Institute will host the fourth edition of the FII this week, a multi-hub conference held under the appropriate theme of “The Neo-Renaissance,” which will once again engage global decision-makers as they tackle some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Dubai: Saudi Arabia has been ranked 14th in the world and maintained its top ranking among Arab countries in terms of publishing coronavirus-related research, Saudi Press Agency reported.
Minister of Education Dr. Hamad Bin Mohammed Al Sheikh said that the Kingdom also ranked 12th within the G20 member states, citing a world-class network database of the Web of Science.
Commenting on the occasion, the minister extended thanks and appreciation to King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for their continuous support for education and scientific research.
Saudi universities have managed to publish as much as 84 per cent of the Kingdom’s coronavirus related research, indicating that the total related research papers published across the Kingdom were as many as 915.