Dec 11 What Americans should know about Saudi Aramco’s IPO By Gretchen Frazee The company, which is now considered the most profitable in the world, is valued at more than $1.8 trillion. Continue reading
Dec 11 Saudi Aramco stock gains 10 percent after it begins trading By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press Aramco, owned by the state, has sold a 1.5 percent stake in the company, pricing its shares before trading at 32 Saudi riyals, or what is $8.53. Continue reading
Dec 09 Saudi Arabia’s deficit widens to $49 billion ahead of Aramco sale By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press The Saudi government aims to generate billions of dollars from the partial sale this week of state oil company, Aramco. Continue reading
Dec 07 Official: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack By Bill Kaczor, Brendan Farrington, Associated Press The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told The Associated Press… Continue reading
Dec 06 U.S. digs into Saudi suspect’s motive in deadly Navy shooting By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press On Friday, President Donald Trump said he got a call from Saudi King Salman, who expressed “his sincere condolences" and sent sympathies to the families of those involved. Continue reading
Dec 05 Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company plans biggest ever IPO By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday set a share price that puts the value of the company at $1.7 trillion. Continue reading
Nov 11 Uber CEO walks back comment on Saudi writer’s slaying By Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press Khosrowshahi later said he regretted his comments, made during an interview with Axios on HBO. He tweeted Monday that there's no forgiving or forgetting what happened to the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and he was wrong to call it a mistake. Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch 3:40 How the Saudi government may have used Twitter to target dissidents in the U.S. The Department of Justice alleges that the government of Saudi Arabia is surveilling people living in the United States — by leveraging Twitter. Specifically, the indictment charges that a Saudi official is recruiting Twitter employees to share personal details of… Continue watching
Nov 07 U.S.: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics By Daisy Nguyen, Brian Melley, Associated Press The complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi government officials to recruit employees at the social media giant to look up the private data of Twitter accounts, including email addresses linked to… Continue reading
Nov 06 Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users, U.S. prosecutors say By Daisy Nguyen, Associated Press The complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi officials to recruit employees at the social media giant to look up the private data of thousands of Twitter accounts. Continue reading