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Joe Biden is still stuck in the 20th-century world
Summary List PlacementYou may have noticed: The Blob is back. Beneath a veneer of gender and racial diversity, the Biden national security team consists of seasoned operatives who earned their spurs in...
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White House refuses to call Saudi leader MBS a 'killer' after Biden called...
Summary List PlacementThe White House on Thursday declined to refer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a "killer," though a recently declassified US intelligence report said he ordered the...
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Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire to Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia announced a plan Monday to offer Yemen's Houthi rebels a cease-fire in the country's yearslong war and allow a major airport to reopen in its capital, the kingdom's...
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Saudi Arabia's $500 billion megacity Neom is creating plans to harvest an...
Summary List PlacementIn 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced that a new city would be built from scratch in Saudi Arabia's northwest deserts.The city, called Neom, would be "a place...
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The UN leaked a Saudi threat to assassinate an official to make sure the...
Summary List PlacementUnited Nations officials informed French and American intelligence services last year that a Saudi official appeared to threaten the life of a UN researcher investigating the...
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Saudi Arabia imprisoned an aid worker for running an anti-government Twitter...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced an aid worker to 20 years in prison for running a Twitter account that he used to mock Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — known also as MBS — and...
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Biden promised a foreign policy centered on human rights, but is continuing...
Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden promised that his foreign policy would mark a major departure from former President Donald Trump, pledging to put human rights and democracy at the center of...
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House votes 350-71 passing legislation limiting arms sales to Saudi Arabia,...
Summary List PlacementThe US House of representatives voted 350-71 to pass a measure that would restrict US arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal...
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Saudi Arabia in talks to sell 1% of oil giant Aramco to global energy firm,...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia is in talks to sell a stake in oil producer Saudi Aramco to an unnamed global energy company, according to a CNBC report Wednesday.Saudi Aramco had the world's...
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Saudi Arabia is trying to patch things up with bitter rivals Iran and Turkey,...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia has started reaching out to its rivals in the Middle East, suggesting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knows US support for his country is no longer guaranteed.In...
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Saudi Arabia's $400 billion wealth fund doubled down on its stakes in US...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund boosted its holdings in US video-game makers and dumped a major oil stake in the first quarter this year, according to a 13F disclosure filed...
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The CIA and DOJ are considering intervening in a lawsuit targeting the Saudi...
Summary List PlacementThe Biden administration may involve itself in a civil lawsuit targeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman because it fears US secrets could be revealed in court, The...
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Google urged to halt cloud-computing project in Saudi Arabia over human...
Summary List PlacementA Silicon Valley tech giant could end up enabling one of the world's worst human rights abusers to better spy on its citizens, human rights campaigners said Wednesday.When Google...
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2 years ago, a Saudi princess was kidnapped and jailed without charge. Her...
Summary List PlacementOn February 28, 2019, shortly before her 54th birthday, Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was kidnapped and imprisoned without charge in her native Saudi...
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Saudi Arabia executes 26-year-old man for protesting against the government...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia has executed a young man over his reported involvement in anti-government protests when he was a teenager, human rights groups said Tuesday. The Saudi Ministry of the...
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Oil jumps past $75 for first time since 2018 as OPEC and allies move toward...
Summary List PlacementUS oil prices stepped to their highest price since 2018 Thursday following a report that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies are headed toward...
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A Saudi prince has been accused of modern-day slavery by maids in his...
Summary List PlacementA Saudi Arabian prince has been accused of carrying out acts of modern-day slavery by seven women who worked as maids in his apartment outside Paris.French prosecutors have...
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The Biden administration plans to release info from a long-classified 9/11...
Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden's administration said it intends to declassify information from long-withheld files relating to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks after victims' families...
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9/11 families and top Democrats demand Biden finally release FBI records...
Summary List PlacementThe Biden administration announced on Monday that the Department of Justice would review a series of classified FBI documents with an eye towards disclosing them, hoping to head...
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A Saudi prince who was detained in the 2017 Ritz-Carlton power purge has...
Summary List PlacementThe whereabouts of a senior Saudi prince who was first detained in the kingdom's infamous 2017 Ritz-Carlton purge remain unknown, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plan to...
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