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@nytimesworld 3 years ago Even as coronavirus cases rise steadily in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom has announced the lifting of most of its Covid precautions as it prepares to receive roughly a million pilgrims for the annual Hajj season, the most since the start of the pandemic. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Saudi Arabia is set to impose one of the world’s most sweeping vaccine mandates in an attempt to combat hesitancy toward the Covid-19 shots in the kingdom on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago Saudi Arabia opened a summit of G-20 leaders Saturday that was held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically curtailed the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, limiting the number of people and barring people from outside the kingdom nyti.ms
@WSJ 5 years ago Dozens of U.S. diplomats and their families are leaving Saudi Arabia this weekend amid a surge in new coronavirus cases in the kingdom on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 5 years ago Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia bars international pilgrims for Hajj bbc.in
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The coronavirus and plummeting oil prices threaten to sink Saudi Arabia's sweeping social and economic reforms, and has already curtailed the welfare state that has given Saudis a comfortably subsidized life. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The essential workers of Persian Gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are mostly migrant laborers, who sometimes outnumber locals. The coronavirus might force some of the world's richest societies to rethink that.nyti.ms by @VivianHYee
@WSJ 5 years ago A Saudi princess jailed without charges since March 2019 has made a rare public appeal to the king and crown prince for her release out of fear of coronavirus infection, exposing long-simmering tensions in the Saudi royal family on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago A senior Saudi prince is in intensive care with the coronavirus, which may have infected many in the clan's ranks. nyti.ms
@WSJ 5 years ago Oil prices dropped more than 20%, the biggest fall since 1991, as a price war stoked by Russia and Saudi Arabia threatened to flood a world already hobbled by the coronavirus outbreak with a glut of crude on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago Russia has rejected a Saudi-led effort to deepen OPEC’s oil production cuts in response to the coronavirus, cartel delegates said on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 3 years ago Rise in executions in 2021 as Covid restrictions were eased, with spikes seen in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International says bbc.in
@guardian 4 years ago Saudi Arabia bans foreigners from hajj over Covid concerns theguardian.com
@WSJ 5 years ago Saudi Arabia plans to reopen the two holiest sites in Islam to pilgrims in October, seven months after it suspended visits to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, as it attempts to revive its floundering economy on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 5 years ago Coronavirus: Scaled back Hajj pilgrimage due to start in Saudi Arabia bbc.in
@nytimesworld 5 years ago Saudi Arabia announced that this year's hajj, scheduled to take place next month, would welcome “very limited numbers” of pilgrims in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus nyti.ms
@BBCWorld 5 years ago Saudi Arabia to lift coronavirus curfew bbc.in
@WSJ 5 years ago Aramco’s profit falls sharply, underscoring the twin impact of an oil-price rout and the coronavirus on Saudi Arabia’s worsening finances on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The essential workers of Persian Gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are mostly migrant laborers, who sometimes outnumber locals. The coronavirus might force some of the world's richest societies to rethink that.nyti.ms by @VivianHYee
@nytimesworld 5 years ago Saudi officials said the cease-fire sought to jump-start peace talks brokered by the UN and had been motivated by fears of the coronavirus spreading in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld 5 years ago Saudi Arabia asks Muslims to delay Hajj bookings amid coronavirus uncertainty bbc.in
@guardian 5 years ago Monday briefing: Markets in turmoil over Covid-19 and Saudi oil shock theguardian.com
@WSJ 5 years ago Saudi Arabia is pushing for a drastic, short-term oil production cut as it seeks to respond to the impact of China’s deadly coronavirus on crude demand, according to OPEC officials on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 3 years ago Rise in executions in 2021 as Covid restrictions were eased, with spikes seen in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International says bbc.in
@nytimesworld 4 years ago Saudi Arabia said that it would hold the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, but did not say how many pilgrims would be allowed to come, which countries would be allowed to send them or what coronavirus precautions they would have to take. nyti.ms
@WSJ 5 years ago Russia has struck preliminary agreements to sell its Covid-19 vaccine to more than 10 countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and India, officials said. It would be distributed as soon as November. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago “We aim to finish this hajj with zero corona cases”: Saudi Arabia is balancing its responsibility as steward of the Muslim world’s most important religious event with the need to curb the coronavirus on.wsj.com
@guardian 5 years ago Coronavirus live news: Saudi Arabia closes borders to hajj attendees as global Covid-19 cases pass 9m theguardian.com
@guardian 5 years ago Coronavirus live news: global cases near 7 million as Saudi infections pass 100,000 theguardian.com
@BBCWorld 5 years ago Saudi Arabia triples VAT as part of austerity measures to support its coronavirus-hit economy bbc.in
@WSJ 5 years ago Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented stimulus measures to cushion the blow of collapsed oil prices amid coronavirus will force it to cut spending on its transformation away from oil on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund has amassed stakes worth roughly $1 billion in four major European oil companies, buying assets it perceives as undervalued amid the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago With Saudi Arabia preparing to flood oil markets, poorer OPEC countries are cutting spending even as they confront the coronavirus on.wsj.com
@guardian 5 years ago Saudi Arabia seals off Shia Qatif region over coronavirus fears theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago With Covid-19 reducing migrant labor in many countries, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the U.K. are testing whether their economies can run with fewer foreign workers on.wsj.com
@guardian 4 years ago Brazil, Saudi and Morocco 'told of delay in Covid jabs from India' theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically curtailed the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, limiting the number of people and barring people from outside the kingdom nyti.ms
@WSJ 5 years ago “We aim to finish this hajj with zero corona cases”: Saudi Arabia is balancing its responsibility as steward of the Muslim world’s most important religious event with the need to curb the coronavirus on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago Saudi Arabia said it was curtailing this year’s hajj pilgrimage to only a small number of people already in the kingdom, as it grapples with one of the largest confirmed coronavirus outbreaks in the Middle East on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The coronavirus and plummeting oil prices threaten to sink Saudi Arabia's sweeping social and economic reforms, and has already curtailed the welfare state that has given Saudis a comfortably subsidized life nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The essential workers of Persian Gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are mostly migrant laborers, who sometimes outnumber locals. The coronavirus might force some of the world's richest societies to rethink that.nyti.ms by @VivianHYee
@WSJ 5 years ago “My heart is burning to go to hajj.” Nada Abdulfatah and other would-be pilgrims worry the new coronavirus will force Saudi Arabia to cancel their once-in-a-lifetime journey to Mecca. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 5 years ago The coronavirus has invaded the inner sanctum of Saudi Arabia's royal family. An internal memo obtained by The New York Times called for urgent preparation of 500 beds at an elite Saudi hospital that treats members of the extended clan. nyti.ms
@WSJ 5 years ago Listen: In today's episode of the Journal podcast, @kenbrown12 explains how, as the coronavirus pandemic threatens the economy and sends stocks tumbling, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has added to the turmoil by launching an oil price war on.wsj.com
@guardian 5 years ago Coronavirus news: Japan closes all schools as Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimages - live updates theguardian.com