The men who killed dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi flew on private jets owned by a company recently seized by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, CNN reported, citing documents viewed by the network.The documents were reportedly labeled "Top Secret" and filed in connection to a Canadian civil lawsuit. In the documents viewed by CNN, a Saudi minister conveyed an order from the crown prince to "immediately approve the.
Saudi Arabia Investing $200 Billion To Create a Green Smart City Hudhaifa Ebrahim 01/22/2021
In ‘The Line’ project, the kingdom aims to build an international high-tech metropolis near the borders of Jordan, Israel and Egypt
Ever since Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced plans earlier this month to build “The Line,” a 105-mile-long belt of hyper-connected communities in the kingdom’s northeast that will have no cars, no streets and no carbon emissions, but which will have smart infrastructure costing up to $200 billion, the topic has been trending in the kingdom and in the Arab and global business communities.
The prince described a project that preserves the environment, “changes the concept of sustainable cities,” and answers the questions: “Why do we lose a million people annually due to accidents and why do we accept that years of human life are wasted in transportation.”
Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world’s most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executions for non-violent drug-related crimes, according to the government’s tally and independent observers.
The Saudi Human Rights Commission yesterday said it documented 27 executions last year. That compares with an all-time high of 184 executions the year before, as documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
The change represents an 85 percent reduction in the number of people put to death last year, compared with 2019.
“The sharp decrease was brought about in part by
From Sheikh Mohammed to the Queen: The most high-profile names to get Covid jab to date
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth became the latest high-profile figure to join the global vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, taking the jab on Saturday. World leaders have been taking the vaccine in public in a bid to increase confidence in its safety. Recently, Pope Francis also urged people to get the jab, calling opposition to the vaccine “suicidal denial”. He is expected to receive the vaccine as early as next week.
For a crisis that seemed unending in 2020, we may have finally arrived at the light at the end of the tunnel the mass rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has kicked off the biggest inoculation campaign in history.
Covid-19 vaccines from a variety of manufacturers such as Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Sinopharm have been authorised for rollout in various countries while the shot by AstraZeneca has been authorised for use by the UK government. Close to three million Americans have been vaccinated since the rollout began with China, the origin of the outbreak, also vaccinating one million people.
Pakistan also keenly awaits wide availability of the vaccine. Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has said that Pakistan has authorised procurement of one million vaccine shots which will cover all frontline health workers as soon as they are approved. He said the target for their release was the first quarter of 2021 .