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Saudi to build 9 desalination plants on Red Sea

Saudi Arabia plans to build nine desalination plants for more than 2 billion riyals ($530 million) on the Red Sea coast, its environment minister said Sunday. The plants will have capacity of 240,000 cubic meters of water per day and will be completed in less than 18 months, Abdulrahman...

Airbus to get '10 years of visibility' from Emirates deal: CEO

A $16 billion deal with Emirates airline for A380 superjumbos will give Airbus "at least 10 years of visibility", the European manufacturer's CEO Tom Enders said in an interview published Sunday. Emirates announced the deal on Thursday to buy 36 Airbus A380s - just days after the group...

Pence tells Egypt's Sisi that US would back two-state solution

Vice President Mike Pence told Egypt's leader Saturday the United States would support a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians if the two sides agreed to it, seeking to reassure a key Arab ally over President Donald Trump's decision to recognize occupied Jerusalem as Israel's...

Israeli Arab MPs to boycott speech by Pence

A coalition of Arab parties in the Israeli parliament said Saturday it will boycott a speech by visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, calling him "dangerous and messianic". Pence, who arrived in Cairo Saturday to start his first Middle East tour, travels Sunday on to Jordan and to...