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At Large: Anthony Joshua’s latest challenge confirms Saudi Arabia’s heavyweight influence – SportsPro Media

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Muhammad Ali has a secret about the Rumble in the Jungle. “The true significance of why this fight is being fought in Africa,” he says, looking warmly down a filmmaker’s lens in footage from the seminal 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, “is because they came up with US$10 million. US$5 million for George Foreman. US$5 million for me. London, England was trying to get it. Promoters here in America were trying to get it. But none of them could surpass the US$5 million mark.”   The “they” in this conversation is the government of what in 1974 was Zaire, and more specifically, its ruler President Mobutu Sese Soko. A kleptocratic despot who had seized power of what had been the Belgian Congo through a succession of military coups in the 1960s, Mobutu was eager for the international community to start using the name he had given the country in 1971 – and for casual observers to look away from his more homicidal tendencies.  He found the aforementioned US$10 million that Don King, th
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Trump is laying the ground for a nuclear arms race in the Gulf – Al Jazeera English

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Over the past three months since the Trump administration imposed severe sanctions on Iran , which have significantly curbed its oil exports and exacerbated its economic crisis, tensions in the Gulf have escalated. Commercial vessels have been attacked, oil tankers seized and drones shot down. Despite these escalations, both sides are holding back and at least in the short-term, an open conflict so far seems unlikely. In the long-term, however, the highly-problematic approach that the United States has adopted towards the nuclear issue could have devastating consequences. Two recent developments point in that direction. First, the Trump administration has given a green light to US companies to work on nuclear projects in Saudi Arabia . According to a report recently released by the US Congress Oversight Committee, “with regard to Saudi Arabia, the Trump Administration has virtually obliterated the lines normally separating government policymaking from corporate and foreign interes
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Ethiopians abandoned after deportation from Saudi Arabia: HRW – Daily Nation

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By AFP More by this Author ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopian migrants who braved death-defying land and sea journeys to find work in Saudi Arabia are being deported en masse with nothing but the clothes on their backs, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. A report based on interviews with deportees in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa documents exploitation, trafficking and violence that begins from the moment the migrants set off across the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden to reach the Arabian Peninsula. It says officials in Ethiopia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia have done little to protect migrants from abuses at the hands of traffickers and security forces. And it says they have failed to ease the return of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians caught up in a large-scale Saudi deportation campaign that began in November 2017. “Many Ethiopians who hoped for a better life in Saudi Arabia face unspeakable dangers along the journey, including death at sea, torture, and all manners of abuses,” said Felix
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Saudi Arabia stocks lower at close of trade; Tadawul All Share unchanged – Investing.com

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Stock Markets 1 hour ago (Aug 15, 2019 10:15AM ET) © Reuters. Saudi Arabia stocks lower at close of trade; Tadawul All Share unchanged Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as in the sectors led shares . At the close in Saudi Arabia, the unchanged 0.00%. The best performers of the session on the were Saudi Cement Company (SE:), which rose 6.45% or 4.00 points to trade at 66.00 at the close. Meanwhile, The Saudi British Bank (SE:) added 4.83% or 1.75 points to end at 38.00 and Arabia Insurance Cooperative Co (SE:) was up 3.53% or 0.62 points to 18.16 in late trade. The worst performers of the session were The Saudi Investment Bank (SE:), which fell 6.17% or 1.14 points to trade at 17.34 at the close. ACE ARABIA COOPERATIVE INSURANCE (SE:) declined 5.36% or 1.20 points to end at 21.20 and Gulf General Cooperative Insurance (SE:) was down 2.56% or 0.32 points to 12.18. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the
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National Enquirer Investigated by FBI Over Possible Saudi Influence Peddling – Mother Jones

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Earlier this year, federal investigators began requesting corporate documents and questioning staff at American Media Inc., the company run by Donald Trump’s longtime friend David Pecker, about a special issue of the National Enquirer it produced that lavished praise on Saudi Arabia and its controversial leader, Mohammed bin Salman, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. Gathering evidence through at least June and working at the direction of prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, FBI agents zeroed in on the circumstances behind the magazine’s publication and, according to one of the sources, whether AMI had engaged in illegal influence peddling on behalf of a foreign power. Both AMI and the SDNY declined to comment on the investigation, including whether it remains ongoing. This probe came amid a lurid controversy involving AMI, which until recently owned the National Enquirer , and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In February, Bezos accused th
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New report alleges Saudi Arabia covered up war crimes in Yemen – The Independent

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A team of international lawyers and a Yemeni human rights group have submitted new evidence of alleged Saudi war crimes to the UK government in a bid to stop the sale of British weapons to the kingdom.  The nearly 300-page report alleges a litany of international law violations by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. It further claims that the Riyadh covered up evidence of war crimes in subsequent investigations into deadly airstrikes.    The evidence was collected by researchers from the independent Yemeni rights group Mwatana and submitted to the international trade secretary, Liz Truss , by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and UK law firm Bindmans. It involved extensive on-the-ground research and analysis of airstrikes in which civilians were killed.  We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. “The coalition has continued to carry out apparently unlawful
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Saudi Arabia needs more Opec production cuts, and soon – Financial Times

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