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...She was to use the money “toward obtaining legal status in the United Kingdom”, according to legal filings and people familiar with the situation....
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...“Steve . . . an elegant thought that could be backed immediately by the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] and the UAE,” Barrack wrote. “[It] would balance the current noise!”...
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...The same goes in China, where a nationalistic government seeks to ringfence the entire innovation ecosystem and make the Middle Kingdom independent from western technology within a few years....
...Riyadh has come under heavy congressional pressure following the grisly killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was killed in October by Saudi agents at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul...
...Mr Naimi had been removed as Saudi energy ministry and the kingdom was back to trying to get Russia on board....
...“2018 saw strong economic growth in the United States and Canada, while growth disappointed in the United Kingdom and in Europe,” he said in the letter....
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