The Gulf Cooperation Council has stepped up efforts to boost defense cooperation, align security initiatives and face security challenges, said Abdullateef Al-Zayani, GCC secretary general, while speaking at an international conference in Bahrain on Tuesday.
As controversy continues to encircle the American surveillance program, Cryptome, the digital library host that was created by the US as a repository for secret documents and material, revealed that the CIA spied on 7.8 billion calls in Saudi Arabia.
The Oct. 26 campaign of Saudi women activists to drive fizzled out Saturday as the government’s threat of arrests appeared to take effect.
James E. Rothman, the American professor who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday, said that the King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) has become a “gateway for winning the Nobel Prize.”
The GCC has defied global trends of recession, with the economic bloc projected to expand by 4.1 percent in 2014, Nemat Shafik, deputy managing director of the IMF, said on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia has endorsed Pakistani Ambassador Muhammad Naeem Khan as a candidate for the post of assistant secretary-general from the Asian region at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Khan is Pakistan’s permanent representative to the OIC in Jeddah.
Member states of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which enjoy better conditions for manufacturing and, in turn, have great potential for job creation, are heading for a “manufacturing renaissance,” said Abdullatif A. Al-Othman, governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA). Al-Othman expressed optimism on manufacturing sector’s growth and said the “great manufacturing renaissance isn’t limited to one continent.”