Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, brought news of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s declaration of his nation’s decision to join the BRICS when he returned from Riyadh earlier this week. This is not entirely unexpected because Iran and Argentina made similar announcements in the spring. The increasing association will need us to come up with ever-complicateder acronyms... 

Saudi Arabia has amended national regulations to allow adult women to register a marriage or a divorce and be eligible for the guardianship of minor children, Reuters reported, citing local media. According to the report, Riyadh has also altered the national passport system, travel permissions and civil affairs regulations, which will allow Saudi women to travel without permission from male relatives... 

For a world attempting to emerge from the horrors of the American “Deep State” multi-generational war whose deaths since the ending of World War II now number over 20 million, a new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today bluntly states that it won’t happen anytime soon as the United Nations (UN) is warning that millions more are nearing death—with this warning coming... 

In a shocking development, late on Saturday the Saudi press reported that prominent billionaire, member of the royal Saudi family, and one of the biggest shareholders of Citi, News Corp. and Twitter – not to mention frequent CNBC guest – Al-Waleed bin Talal, along with ten senior princes, and some 38 ministers, has been arrested for corruption and money laundering charges on orders from...