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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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Somalia Somalia – Somaliland relations have gained traction on social media with the current buzz centering around a photo. Top cabinet ministers of Somalia including the Foreign Affairs and Finance Ministers met and took a photo with a Somaliland delegation – led by its president Muse Bihi – in Saudi Arabia’s city of Mina. The respective delegations were in Saudi in connection with the 2019 edition of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Somalia – Somaliland meeting in Saudi, zero politics discussed – Minister Awad For some people, the meeting was a good sign given ever rising tensions between Mogadishu and Hargeisa. Others slammed th...

A private vehicle and a tank truck had collided in the south-western Saudi region of Asir, killing seven people, a rescue official has said. Image Credit: Riyadh: A private vehicle and a tank truck had collided in the south-western Saudi region of Asir, killing seven people, a rescue official has said. Nine others were injured in the accident that occurred on Tuesday in the area of Bahr Abu Sakina, west of Asir, spokesman for the Red Crescent in Asir Mohammad Bin Hassan, told Saudi online newspaper Sabq said. Nine teams of medics were sent to the scene of the collision between a Land Cruiser Toyota and a water tank truck, according to the official. Those injured included two in serious condition while the rest of injuries ranged from medium to minor, he said. The cause of the accident has yet to be clear. Road crashes in Saudi Arabia Road crashes resulted in 10,961 deaths in Saudi Arabia in 2017, according to official figures. The...

Home Business Energy Article #investment | 13 August, 2019 Reliance will buy about 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Saudi Aramco to be refined at RIL’s giant refinery By  Krishnan Nayar , WAM (Emirates News Agency) NEW DELHI – In a major effort to deepen India’s energy relationship with oil producers in the Gulf, the country’s biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), is to sell 20 percent of the ownership of its refining and petrochemical business to Saudi Aramco for $15 billion. This was announced by RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Mumbai. Under the deal, Reliance will buy about 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Saudi Aramco to be refined at RIL’s giant refinery in Jamnagar in India’s west coast. “This signifies perfect synergy between the world’s largest oil producer and the world’s largest integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex,” Mukesh Ambani told the shareholders’ meeting...

Image Credit: Supplied Dubai: Jubail Table Tennis Association (JTTA) from Saudi Arabia dominated at the Fourth GCC All Filipino Table Tennis Tournament 2019 that concluded at Al Nasr Club’s indoor hall, over the weekend. More than 200 table tennis players from across the Gulf region participated in the annual competition that was contested in three separate categories in the individual and teams categories. Players representing JTTA won the teams’ titles in the Class A and Class C and ended second in the Class B category. The team from Saudi Arabia tasted further success when Jima Navarro won the individual honours in Class A, while Jayco Navarro won the Class B crown and Sol Arroyo completed a clean sweep for JTTA from Class C. The Morning and Evening Brief A daily brief with the biggest stories of the day Please enter your email address ...

Here is a round-up of the best of today’s boxing news… Rematch between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr will take place in November or December Andy Ruiz Jr says Anthony Joshua rematch WON’T be in Saudi Arabia Ruiz has finally broken his silence after his rematch with Joshua was announced for December 7 in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Mexico’s heavyweight champion produced a deafening silence after Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn revealed the second fight’s location, but has now declared that he has no intention of going to the Middle East. Andy Ruiz Jr finally breaks his silence on the Anthony Joshua rematch being announced for Saudi Arabia. He insists the fight will be on his terms and take place in the United States of America, not Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/oGfGMbNWtb — Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) August 14, 2019 Billy Joe Saunders reportedly approved for Canelo Alvarez’s next fight as one of three new possible opponents Saunders has joined the list of poten...

JEDDAH: The General Authority for Entertainment (GEA) is presenting the Marathon of Color event at the Taif Season. The event, held between Aug. 15 and 17 on Al-Hada-Taif Road, is a sporting and artistic celebration full of diversity, competitive running races and color. The marathon starts at 4 p.m. each day with several tracks. The first day starts with the family path, which extends for 4 km for 4 hours; the second day hosts the amateur path, which goes for 8 km for 2 hours, and the third and final day witnesses the path of professionals, which runs for 21 km for 6 hours. Participants on the tracks are divided according to different age groups. Racers in the professional category must be at least 17, in the amateur category they need to be 15 and above, while the children must be accompanied by their parents to participate in the family race. People with special needs can participate in wheelchairs on the 4-km path. The events will be accompanied by drumming and musical per...

Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams’  Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit has arrested and charged an Edmonton pediatrician with child pornography offences. Ghassan Al-Naami, 47, was arrested on Sunday, Aug. 11 with the assistance of Leduc and Edmonton International Airport RCMP. Al-Naami is charged with possession and transmission of child pornography. ALERT said Al-Naami is a pediatrician in Edmonton but that investigators don’t have any evidence suggesting offences were committed against children under his care. Al-Naami is listed as a pediatrician at the Bright Futures Clinic in Edmonton’s Norwood area. His biography on the clinic’s website says he received his medical degree from the University of Jordan in 1996 and has worked in Saudi Arabia and the United States. It also says he was trained in pediatric cardiology and cardiac imaging at the University of Alberta and in Denver, Colo. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta was alerted after Al-Naami was a...