

World Jan 05

Qatar's ruling emir arrived in Saudi Arabia and was greeted with an embrace by its crown prince on Tuesday, following an announcement that the kingdom would end its yearslong embargo on the tiny Gulf Arab state.
By Aya Batrawy, Isabel Debre, Amr Nabil, Associated Press
World Jan 04

Kuwait's foreign ministry said Saudi Arabia will open its air and land borders with Qatar, in the first steps toward ending a diplomatic crisis that has deeply divided regional U.S. allies since 2017.
By Aya Batrawy, Isabel Debre, Associated Press
World Dec 28

Loujain al-Hathloul has already been in pre-trial detention and has endured several stretches of solitary confinement.
By Associated Press
Nation Nov 23

In our news wrap Monday, Astra-Zeneca became the third major company to report promising results on a COVID-19 vaccine, the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen during the pandemic but not enough to reduce record levels and General Motors is…
Oct 09

By Nick Schifrin, Layla Quran
It's been two years since the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the Kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. At the end of his life, Khashoggi was among Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s highest-profile critics. The new Showtime…
Sep 23

By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press
His speech marks only the second time in more than six decades that a sitting monarch from the kingdom addresses the gathering.
Sep 16

By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press
The State Department on Wednesday rejected Democrats' charges of improperly firing its independent inspector general and defended its weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
In our news wrap Monday, eight people in Saudi Arabia were sentenced to prison for their roles in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. A UN investigator had criticized the trial, which…
Jul 30

By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press
Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam's holiest site, to pray and repent on the most important day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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