Saudi authorities issued an early warning for potential danger in Taif province in western Saudi Arabia.

Brookfield has appointed KB Kookmin Bank as lead arranger on South Korea's largest syndicated loan to date: a 10.7 trillion-won (about $8.0bn) facility to finance NAVER's purchase of AI compute infrastructure, including GPUs. The loan is part of a broader 12.6 trillion-won financing package; the chips will be supplied to NAVER Cloud under long-term lease arrangements. The transaction, described as Korea's first large-scale GPU financing, underscores Asian banks and private credit funds expanding AI financing beyond data centre builds to cover compute hardware.

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