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...In October, he spoke at the “Davos in the desert” conference in Riyadh and had lunch with Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the US....
...Riyadh has also driven the campaign to normalise regional relations with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Horak said it “was about time” that Saudi Arabia and Canada restored ties, CBC reported....
...“Saudi Arabia is a very young nation with a highly engaged gaming community.”...
...Prince Mohammed’s last visit was in March 2018, six months before Saudi agents killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
...It gave the young Saudi royal the perfect stage to project his worldview — one that envisages the kingdom as a rising power whose influence stretches from east to west....
...Hafez al-Assad was brilliant at that, and it turns out Bashar al-Assad is, too....
...The headaches the Gulf’s ruthless young autocrat create for Biden’s America are specific to him and generic. Prince Mohammed stands out as one of the world’s most single-minded absolutists....
...The event’s marketing material touted the UK's “progressive regulators” and Saudi Arabia's “young and tech-savvy population"....
...Domestically this is a core issue,” said Karen Young, the director of the economics and energy programme at the Middle East Institute think-tank....
...In Saudi Arabian television comedy Jameel Jeddan, a young woman falls into a coma after a road accident....
...But the incoming administration of president-elect Joe Biden is expected to be far cooler towards the young royal who has drawn widespread criticism from Democrats over the killing of Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia...
...Here’s their minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, talking to Fox News. Adel al-JubeirSaudi Arabia does not politicise oil or oil decisions. Oil is not a weapon....
...While Trump had stood by the young crown prince, ever after Saudi agents brutally murdered veteran journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Joe Biden was publicly critical of the killing and promised to reassess...
...He actually signed an agreement in the desert with the Saudi minister of culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah al-Saud, to support the conservation fund....
...His leadership has been tarnished by human rights abuses, including the 2018 murder of journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi....
...of the UAE, who was mentor to his counterpart Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, the young crown prince and day-to-day ruler of Saudi Arabia....
...Manchester City, owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a billionaire member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, abstained....
...In contrast, when Khaldoon al-Mubarak, one of the most trusted lieutenants of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s de facto leader, contacted Honeywell to supply much-needed personal protective...
...It looks at the attempts by Greensill and Cameron to woo Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, just a year after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents....
...The young prince has shown no inclination to unpick that in any respect — particularly when it involves leading figures who know the kingdom’s secrets. david.gardner@ft.com...
...To others, the dispute with al-Jabri epitomises the young royal’s ruthless pursuit of rivals and perceived opponents as hundreds of Saudis, including princes, businessmen and civil servants, have been detained...
...the young royal’s radical plans to revamp the kingdom and to rehabilitate his image....
...The sceptics see an overly ambitious vanity project inspired by a brash young autocrat that risks becoming the oil-rich Gulf's next white elephant....
...The young prince has destroyed the old balance of power....
...For Russia, it is preventing the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. But these carefully balanced accommodations can easily come unstuck....
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