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SAUDI

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 2, 2018
Softbank's Masayoshi Son may be about to surprise us anew
Corporate Japan could do with more of Masayoshi Son's 'swing for the fences' approach to business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2018
SoftBank Vision Fund and Saudi Arabia to create world's largest solar power firm
SoftBank Group Corp.'s Vision Fund will invest in a solar-power generation company in Saudi Arabia, creating the world's biggest solar producer, as it steps up its involvement in the kingdom, its chief executive said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2018
Indian airliner makes history by flying to Israel via Saudi airspace, but El Al still shut out
Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel, with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv.
BUSINESS
Mar 8, 2018
Israel's El Al seeks U.N. help in bid to fly through Saudi airspace as Air India service nears
El Al Israel Airlines has appealed to the United Nations over a bid to reroute its services between Tel Aviv and India through Saudi Arabian airspace.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2018
Detained Saudi billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal says he expects to be released in days
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom's sweeping crackdown on corruption, said on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released from custody within days.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2018
Mizuho hires GIB Capital banker for Saudi Arabia expansion
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. hired GIB Capital LLC banker Khalid Al Ghamdi to head its Saudi Arabia business as the bank seeks to expand in the kingdom.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2018
Saudi-led coalition says it foiled Houthi attack on oil tanker near key port
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had thwarted an attack on a Saudi oil tanker over the weekend by Houthi fighters near the Red Sea port of Hodeida.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 10, 2018
Yemen's Houthis threaten to block vital shipping lane if Saudi-led force tries to take key Red Sea port
Yemen's armed Houthi movement threatened to block the strategic Red Sea shipping lane if the Saudi-led coalition it is fighting keeps pushing toward the port of Hodeida it controls, the Houthi-run SABA news agency reported.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 29, 2017
U.N. official says over 100 civilians, including children, killed in Yemen by Saudi-led coalition's raids
A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has killed 109 civilians in airstrikes in the past 10 days, including 54 people at a crowded market and 14 members of one family on a farm, the top U.N. official in the country said Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 22, 2017
U.S. lauds decision by Saudi-led coalition to keep Yemeni port open for aid shipments
The United States on Thursday said it welcomed an announcement by a Saudi-led coalition to keep the Hodeidah port in Yemen open for a month and allow humanitarian aid to flow through, and condemned a Houthi bombing of a palace in Saudi Arabia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2017
Yemen shows Guernica's lessons went unlearned
Eighty years after Guernica, an even more criminal action is being carried out against Yemeni civilians, mainly by Saudi Arabia with the complicity of the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2017
Hackers breach safety system and halt operations at critical infrastructure facility in 'watershed' cyberattack: experts
Hackers likely working for a nation-state recently breached safety systems at a critical infrastructure facility, in a watershed attack that halted plant operations, according to cyberinvestigators and the firm whose software was targeted.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 13, 2017
Blockade could push Yemen into 'humanitarian catastrophe' as 8.4 million on brink of famine: WFP
As Yemen teeters on the brink of famine, with soaring food prices and fuel shortages, humanitarians called on Tuesday for the easing of a Saudi blockade to allow in life-saving supplies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2017
SoftBank's Son remains confident over Saudi investment in Vision Fund amid crackdown
Billionaire Masayoshi Son may be getting closer to achieving his dream of making SoftBank Group Corp. the world's biggest investor in technologies, thanks in part to the main patron of Son's $100 billion (¥11.3 trillion) investment plan — Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 9, 2017
Saudi Arabia pushes Palestinians to consider nascent U.S. peace plan
Saudi Arabia pulled no punches when it condemned President Donald Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But Palestinian officials say Riyadh has also been working for weeks behind the scenes to press them to support a nascent U.S. peace plan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2017
Trump to ditch years of U.S. policy regarding Jerusalem, but plan for embassy leaves key details unresolved
President Donald Trump will formally declare Jerusalem to be Israel's capital and direct the State Department to start the process of moving the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv, a historic shift of U.S. policy that could inflame key allies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2017
U.N. report says Yemen rebel missiles fired at Saudi Arabia appear Iranian
Remnants of four ballistic missiles fired into Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi rebels this year appear to have been designed and manufactured by Riyadh's regional rival Iran, a confidential report by United Nations sanctions monitors said, bolstering a push by the United States to punish the Tehran government....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2017
Saudi Arabia has overreached on Iran, Lebanon
Saudi Arabia and Iran's proxy battles are at the root of much of the death and destruction in the Middle East in recent years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 23, 2017
Saudi-led coalition vows to ease crippling Yemen blockade to allow in aid
SANAA
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2017
Westinghouse discussing group bid for Saudi nuclear tender, sources say
Toshiba-owned Westinghouse is in talks with other U.S-based companies to form a consortium to bid in a multibillion-dollar tender for two nuclear power reactors in Saudi Arabia, three industry sources said.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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