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LONDON: An ancient Libyan statue, believed to be looted from the country during its civil war, has been returned from Britain. The 2,200-year-old figure was seized at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2013 under suspicion that it was illicitly imported. Experts from the British Museum were called in to assist efforts to identify the statue. “Only a handful of these sculptural types
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia issued 307 new factory licenses during the first three months of this year representing a total investment of SR17.72 billion ($4.73 billion), government figures have revealed.
The number compared to 240 licenses issued during the same period last year, an increase of 27.92 percent year-on-year, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources’ official website.
In terms of investment, SR3.352 billion was pumped in over the same period in 2020, meaning there was a 428.6 percent increase in total investment in the industrial sector during the first quarter (Q1) of this year.
The new licenses take the total number of industrial establishments in the Kingdom to 9,958. In a recent tweet, the ministry said that 141 of the new factories issued licenses had begun production during Q1.
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday urged Israel and the Palestinians to “step back from the brink,” calling for both sides to “show restraint” as conflict escalated. “The UK is deeply concerned by the growing violence and civilian casualties and we want to see an urgent de-escalation of tensions,” he wrote in a tweet. I am urging Israel and the
U.S. Gulf Coast Refineries May Cut Output Due to Colonial Outage
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(Bloomberg) Most U.S. Gulf Coast oil refineries are expected to trim output as an extended shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline Co. system due to a cyberattack cuts off their main conduit for getting products to markets from Houston to New Jersey.
(Bloomberg) Most U.S. Gulf Coast oil refineries are expected to trim output as an extended shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline Co. system due to a cyberattack cuts off their main conduit for getting products to markets from Houston to New Jersey.