Neom's planners are reportedly worried people won't want to live at the bottom of a 1,640-foot horizontal skyscraper

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A conceptual image of the planned design for The Line in Saudi Arabia's Neom, shows a large mirrored facade extending out into the water from the desert.
The planned design for The Line in Neom.

Neom

Exiled Saudi colonel says forces were authorized to kill villagers who refused to make way for The Line in Neom

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Neom in Saudi Arabia, on January 12, 2021.
Saudi Arabia has high hopes for its Neom megaproject.

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Saudi Arabia needs peace in the Middle East for its $500 billion Neom megaproject to succeed

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A conceptual image of the planned design for The Line in Saudi Arabia's Neom, shows a large mirrored facade extending out into the water from the desert.
The planned design for The Line in Neom.

Neom

Saudi Arabia wants big spenders for the first part of its Neom megaproject

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Sindalah, Neom
A rendering of Sindalah, the island resort that's part of Saudi Arabia's Neom project.

NEOM

Putin is using 'nuclear blackmail' — and Russia defeating Ukraine could spark global chaos and economic disaster, Jamie Dimon warns

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon is JPMorgan CEO.

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Israel seems to have stuck to small drones when it hit Iran — suggesting it wanted only a minor retaliation

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People waving Palestinian and Iranian flags.
Iranians waving Palestinian and Iranian flags during an anti-Israel demonstration in Tehran, Iran, on Friday.

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How the Iranian-backed Houthi militia compares to the US-led task force in the Red Sea

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A battle is playing out in the Red Sea as Yemen's Houthi militia attacks commercial shipping vessels headed to the Suez Canal using weapons supplied by Iran. Now a US-led task force is fighting back.

A deadly Israeli strike in Syria ratchets up a years-long shadow war with Iran that could again put US forces in the crosshairs

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Iranian protesters are burning the U.S. flag and an Israeli flag during a protest gathering to condemn the Israeli airstrike against the Iranian consulate in Syria, at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2024.
Iranian protesters are burning the U.S.

US naval drones have spent 60,000 hours at sea helping the Navy spy on and defeat malicious threats in Middle Eastern waters

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An undated still image released on Oct. 6 from video taken by an Arabian Fox MAST-13 unmanned surface vessel of two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrol speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz.
An undated still image released on Oct. 6 from video taken by an Arabian Fox MAST-13 unmanned surface vessel of two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrol speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz.

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I'm a millennial mom who's visited 57 countries with my kids thanks to many income streams, including $4,000 a month blogging and extra cash from flipping homes

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Karen Edwards, her husband and children in front of Big Ben.
Karen Edwards, her husband, and her children in London.

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