Tag: Saudi Arabia

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Trump nominates retired Army general as ambassador to Saudi Arabia

  

  United States president Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Khashoggi's murder: Erdogan accuses highest level of Saudi government

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for the first time accused the Saudi government directly of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “We know that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government,” he wrote in an article in the Washington Post.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 08:56 UTC

  Saudi Crown Prince told US, murdered writer Khashoggi was a dangerous Islamist

  

  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered writer Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed reportedly said this in a phone call with the White House after Khashoggi disappeared but before Saudi Arabia admitted killing him.

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Khoshoggi's fiancée rejects Trump invitation; Turkish prosecutors want extradition of 18 Saudi suspects

  

  Turkish prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, authorities said on Friday, after President Tayyip Erdogan urged Riyadh to disclose who ordered the murder.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Khashoggi murder: Top US official meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh

  

  A senior US official has held talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince in Riyadh, despite growing concern over the Saudis' role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Mohammed bin Salman on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Saudi Arabia: no intention of a repeat of a 1973-style oil embargo

  

  Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worsening crisis over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

• Monday, October 22nd 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  “Worse than a crime, a blunder”. No surprises if the Saudi family removes the Crown Prince

  

  If Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), really did sent a hit team to Turkey to murder dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, what will happen next? Perhaps history can help us here.

• Monday, October 22nd 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Qatar will contract cruise vessels with 20.000 rooms to host 2022 World Cup fans

  

  Qatar could accommodate thousands more football fans on cruise ships during the 2022 World Cup than previously estimated, leading organizers in the emirate have revealed. An official with the country's largest hotel owner, Katara Hospitality, confirmed on Sunday that up to 20,000 rooms on ships would be made available to supporters in four years' time.

• Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul

  

  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman removed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official as the public prosecutor said an initial probe showed that journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 02:29 UTC

  Turkish police searching for Saudi journalist remains in outskirts of Istanbul

  

  Turkish police are searching a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul and a city near the Sea of Marmara for remains of a Saudi dissident journalist who disappeared two weeks ago after entering the Saudi consulate, two Turkish officials said.