Saudi Arabia
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| Currency | Saudi riyal |
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| Capital | Riyadh |
| Dialing code | +966 |
| Population | 32. 94 million (2017) |
| Did you know | Saudi Arabia is the fifth-largest Middle Eastern country by population (31,521,000). |
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| ID | 1380637 |
About Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is a country in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.
Oil firms commit to major fossil fuel cut by 2050 at COP28
... Saudi Arabia s Aramco is one of 50 oil and gas companies pledging to stop adding to planet-warming gases by 2050...
COP28: Huge rise in oil drilling expected from hosts UAE
... Between 2023 and 2050, only Saudi Arabia is expected to produce more...
COP28: Can a climate summit in an oil state change anything?
... But which countries - if any - will put money in the fund? The European Union has indicated it is going to open its wallet, but what about the US and other big economies? China, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are still defined as developing countries for COP purposes, by the way, and therefore aren t obliged to pay into funds like this - a big bone of contention...
Saudi investment fund to buy 10% stake in Heathrow airport
...By Mariko OiBusiness reporterSaudi Arabia s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in Heathrow airport from Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial...
COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
... The briefings show the UAE also prepared talking points on commercial opportunities for its state renewable energy company, Masdar, ahead of meetings with 20 countries, including the UK, United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kenya...
Allow more aid into Gaza, Lord Cameron urges Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel
... Counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia and Nigeria were there, as well as the secretary general of the League of Arab States and the ambassador of Qatar...
Japan condemns Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack of cargo ship in Red Sea
... The Houthis have been locked in with Yemen s official government - backed by Saudi Arabia - since 2014...
Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack cargo ship in Red Sea
... The Houthis have been locked in with Yemen s official government - backed by Saudi Arabia - since 2014...
Week in pictures: 4 - 10. January 2020
A selection of news photos around The World This Week .
A volunteer holds, the burnt paw, a brushtail possum in Merimbula, Australia. At least half a billion animals, the fires that are already raging around the country for months, died in the Australian forest. A drone photo shows thousands of Iranians attending The Funeral of General Qasem Soleimani , The Head of Iran's Quds Force in Tehran. General Soleimani was killed at the Baghdad airport on 3. January in a strike, ordered the US President Donald Trump . As people gathered for The General 's funeral in his hometown of Kerman, fifty people were killed and More Than 200 injured in a stampede. Actress and activist Rose Mcgowan speaks to reporters in front of the New York city criminal court on The First day of the Film Producer Harvey Weinstein is a sexual violence study in New York . Mr Weinstein is accused of sexual misconduct, More Than 80 women, including Ms. McGowan, but faces charges in relation to only two. Men dance in the icy waters of the Tundzha river during a celebration of Epiphany day in Kalofer, Bulgaria. Epiphany is a festival that marks The Visit of the Three Kings to the child Jesus. A woman collects dried stick of incense on a farm in Quang Phu Cau village in The Outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam, in preparation for the Lunar New Year celebrations. Visitors go to the ice sculptures at the annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in China, north-east in the province of Heilongjiang. The Festival is one of the largest of its kind in The World and took about 220,000 cubic meters of ice and snow to create. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido , on the way to the National Assembly in Caracas. Mr Guaido was prevented, to prevent, by the security forces, the participation in the building of the National Assembly speaker in a vote, the re-election of him as. Cars and people surrounded the camels for sale during the annual king Abdulaziz camel Festival in Rumah, East of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia . Rawson Robinson, of Nenthead village on the Cumbria/Northumberland boundary, clears snow from the model village he built in his garden. Popocatepetl volcano spewing ash, rocks and smoke, as it is from Puebla, Mexico. The plume reaches 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in the sky. No one was hurt.Source of news: bbc.com
