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A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, after the recent cross-border war between Israel and Hamas. (Photograph by Fatima Shbair/ Getty Images)

Israelis and Palestinians end dark year, with no end in sight to war

Heavy bombardment, and a ground invasion launched three weeks into the war, have reduced vast areas of Gaza to a ruined wasteland and killed at least 21,822 people, mostly women…

While major world events typically trigger a deluge of falsehoods, researchers say the scale and speed with which misinformation proliferated online following the weekend’s deadly assault on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas was unlike ever before. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Tech firms struggle as Israel-Gaza falsehoods explode

There are fears that misinformation could trigger real-world harm, amplifying hate and violence especially in conflicts such as in Israel/Palestine

As a profitable state-owned entity, Aramco has thrived in an age where the tides of capitalism have gravitated towards private enterprise. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

Clerics, credit, jingoism: Saudi Aramco casts IPO net

The world’s most profitable company is seeking to raise around $25-billion from its much-delayed IPO

As a profitable state-owned entity, Aramco has thrived in an age where the tides of capitalism have gravitated towards private enterprise. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

Aramco faces new test: shareholders

Saudi Arabia is offering a sliver of the company, touted as the kingdom’s crown jewel, in its upcoming initial public offering

Following a phone call between DOnald Trump and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the White House condemned the attacks on “infrastructure vital to the global economy.” (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

US ‘locked and loaded’ after Saudi attacks as oil prices surge

It is the first time Donald Trump has hinted at a potential American military response to drone attacks, which slashed Saudi oil production by half

(Reuters)

‘We’re not in crisis’: New Saudi foreign minister takes the reins

Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister says the kingdom is not in crisis over critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

The Arab world’s poorest country is crippled by a humanitarian crisis. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters)

War-ridden Yemen’s other frontline — the central bank

Yemen is afflicted by what diplomats call a famine of jobs and salaries, with the central bank torn between two warring parties

Senators Mike Lee, Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy speak after the Senate voted on a resolution ending US military support for the war in Yemen. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Saudi Arabia slams US Senate vote as ‘interference’

The largely symbolic vote dealt a fresh warning to President Trump, who has staunchly backed the Saudi regime

(Leah-Millis/Reuters)

Khashoggi murder: Trump ignores US leverage over Riyadh

The US president was widely pilloried for what critics called his ‘mercantile’ priorities that made him appear like a lobbyist for the kingdom

Speaking at an investment conference in Riyadh, due to end on Thursday, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged there would be “no rupture” in ties with Ankara. (Reuters)

Saudi crown prince deplores ‘repulsive’ Khashoggi murder in first comments

Saudi leaders have denied involvement in Khashoggi’s murder, pushing responsibility down the chain of command

File photo of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the diplomatic quarter of Riyadh

Riyadh’s Ritz ‘luxury prison’ reopens after graft crackdown

Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton welcomed back guests as it reopened for business more than three months after becoming a gilded prison for Saudi elites

Billionaire tycoon Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal

Saudis seek to ease investor concerns after royal purge

Prince Mohammed appears to have centralised power to a degree that is unprecedented in recent Saudi history.