Press TV - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who recently was released after nearly three months in detention as part of a so-called anti-corruption purge, reportedly does not have the permission to travel outside of the kingdom. Sources told Qatari newspaper al-Sharq on Monday that bin Talal, who had hoped to spend time in the south ...

Reuters - Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been released from detention, family sources said on Saturday, more than two months after he was taken into custody in the kingdoms sweeping crackdown on corruption. His release came hours after he told Reuters in an exclusive interview at the opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh ...

Press TV - BillionaireSaudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, who has been detained for over two months as part of a royal purge, says he will be freed within days after discussions with the government come to an end. In an exclusive interview with Reuterson Saturday, bin Talal, one of the richest men in the world who owns stakes in Citigroup and ...

IFP - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, December 24, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A major story in several newspapers today was the air pollution in Tehran and other megacities, and a protest rally held by the citizens ...

FNA - Saudi Arabian authorities are reportedly pressuring a billionaire prince whom they have detained as part of a purge to pay up a whopping USD six billion to secure his release, according to a report. Citing people familiar with the issue,TheWall Street Journalreported on Friday that Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, a billionaire nephew of late King ...

Tasnim Amira Bint Aidan Bin Nayef, the ex-wife of the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal (who was recently arrested in scope of the anti-corruption purges in the country) said that those who accuse others of corruption and money laundering, are in fact highly corrupted themselves. The have turned the city of Jeddah into a slave market where underage ...

The New York Times - Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers. The announcement of the arrests was made over Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned satellite network whose broadcasts are officially approved. ...

IFP- According to a report by El Nashra, al-Waleed bin Talal, a Saudi business magnate and investor who is a member of the Saudi royal family, accused Russian and Syrian forces of mass atrocities during their advance in Aleppo. The Saudi Prince, who recently met with Israeli officials in Tel Aviv and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), threatened ...

Alwaleed bin Talal exchanges angry views with US presidential hopeful after call to ban Muslims from entering US A prominent Saudi billionaire who hoovered up Donald Trumps assets when the presidential hopeful ran into cashflow problems in the 1990s has labelled the controversial candidate a disgrace to his country. Alwaleed bin Talal owns a ...

Billionaire Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal has vowed to give a free Bentley to every Saudi pilot that has taken part in bombardment of Yemen. According to a Wednesday report by the Daily Mail, late Saudi King Abdullah's nephew pledged to reward each of the 100 pilots a free Bentley, a British luxury automobile. The Saudi business tycoon,...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has fired the director of an Islamic TV channel for his role as the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait. He wrote Sunday on his Twitter account that he sacked Tarek Al-Suwaidan "for admitting he belongs to the Brotherhood terrorist movement." Al-Suwaidan, a Kuwaiti, was ...

Global demand for Saudi Arabian oil has been continuously dropping, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says. In open letters to high-ranking Saudi officials published on Sunday, Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, expressed alarm over the fact that "92 percent of the government budget relies on oil" revenues. "The world's reliance ...

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been branded "capricious" and "a debt-dodger" in a British court during a hearing of a case connected to the sale of a private jet to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, was in the second day of a cross-examination before the London High Court on Tuesday....