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KSA gives Yemen $1 billion loan

KSA gives Yemen $1 billion loan

Saudi Arabia, which co-chaired the “Friends of Yemen Group” conference in London on Tuesday, has allocated most of the $3.25 billion in aid it pledged to Yemen, a neighboring nation grappling with a host of challenges including terrorism.

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Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh gets new GM

Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh gets new GM

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has announced the appointment of Anthony Tyler as GM at its Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh. A British National raised in Switzerland, Tyler comes to Saudi Arabia with a wealth of experience gained from international postings within the hospitality industry over the past 20 years.

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Pride: 4 decades of glorious journalism

Pride: 4 decades of glorious journalism

“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That’s journalism.” This quotation of Arthur Burton Rascoe, former editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune, also applies to Arab News, the Kingdom’s leading English daily, whose news coverage has ranged from vital to the colorful aspects of life.

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Female Saudi pilot flies high

Female Saudi pilot flies high

A Saudi woman has become the first licensed female pilot in the Kingdom. Thirty-five-year-old Hanadi Al-Hindi, who had battled kidney problems, acquired licensing from the Jeddah-based General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) to fly planes in Saudi Arabia.

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