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RIYADH: More than 50 companies from Slovakia are hoping to foster trade and investment partnerships with their Saudi counterparts through a special business forum, according to the Kingdom’s official press agency. Top delegates from Saudi Arabia and the European country assembled at the first meeting of the group in Riyadh to discuss ways to cultivate their relationship and

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index shed 12.63 points or 0.11 percent on Monday to close at 11,329.19, following the flat line it spurred on Sunday. While the parallel market Nomu lost 183.81 points to 20,604, the MSCI Tadawul Index dropped slightly by 0.36 percent to 1,521.05. The total trading turnover of the benchmark index was SR6.78 billion ($1.81 billion).

The Arab League Summit in Jeddah was a breath of fresh air compared with what we have come to expect of such occasions. Serious journalists haven’t habitually had much positive to say about Arab summits, which tend to be long on rhetoric but short on action and relevance, with a heavy odor of underachievement and missed opportunities. Journalists and diplomats commented

SYDNEY: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a summit with Pacific Island leaders in Papua New Guinea on Monday, with the US Secretary of State scheduled to also meet the leaders later in the day and sign a defense agreement with Papua New Guinea.

TEHRAN: Iran has summoned Switzerland’s ambassador over a tweet calling for a stop to executions linked to protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry said. The Swiss Embassy took to Twitter on Friday to “strongly condemn” the execution earlier that day of three men convicted of killing security force members during last year’s protests in the

RIYADH: Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University has signed an agreement with the UK’s Loughborough University in Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday. The deal is further evidence of the university’s emphasis on building global partnerships and developing specialized programs, as well as acting as a boost to the Kingdom’s education system.

NEW DELHI: Tourism officials from the Group of 20 biggest economies gathered in Indian-administered Kashmir under tight security on Monday, amid boycotts from some of the bloc’s member countries. The Muslim-majority region is claimed in full but ruled in part by nuclear arch-rivals India and Pakistan, who have fought two wars over control of the territory. The disputed region

HIROSHIMA, Japan: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday he was “upset” he and Volodymyr Zelensky did not meet at the G7 summit, adding his Ukrainian counterpart seemed uninterested in negotiating peace with Russia. Zelensky, who emerged from the summit in Hiroshima with fresh diplomatic support and pledges of more military aid, had sought a one-on-one

JEDDAH: Tackling human rights abuses was top of the agenda when Organization of Islamic Cooperation officials met in Jeddah on Sunday. The 21st regular session of the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission opened in the Red Sea port city with a focus on identifying and dealing with challenges related to the issue.

JERUSALEM: Three Palestinian fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources. In a statement Monday, the Palestinian health ministry identified the three men killed in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus as Muhammad Abu Zaytoun (32), Fathi Abu Rizk (30) and Abdullah Abu Hamdan (24). The Israeli army did not