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The planned gala reception is in stark contrast to the low-key audience afforded Joe Biden in June, as ties between China and the kingdom grow closerThe Chinese president Xi Jinping will visit Saudi Arabia next week, where plans are under way for a gal…
Read MoreCountry in state of emergency amid protests against president, who is reported to be heading for Saudi ArabiaThe Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has arrived in Singapore, with his final destination reported to be Saudi Arabia, as the beleague…
Read MoreConference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian crisisThe world’s donor drought, and growing global divisions over Afghanistan’s political direction, have been laid bare when a UN appeal fo…
Read MoreThe Russian president may look isolated over Ukraine, but important players are hedging their betsWhen Vladimir Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics, days before his invasion of Ukraine, one of the most powerful denunciations c…
Read MoreAbu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intelligence services who allegedly asked the CIA to put questions to a detainee who was being tortured in “black sites” were subject to the law of…
Read MoreReaders respond to an article by Nesrine Malik about how the invasion of Ukraine has been viewed differently to other conflicts across the globeNesrine Malik’s comment has one further compelling dimension to it: seeing this horror in Ukraine and all co…
Read MoreSurvey also finds adults aged 18-24 and women more concerned about personal finances than other groupsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageYoung people and women have taken the hardest psychological and financial hit from the pan…
Read MoreIndia, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
Read MoreTwenty years after 9/11, 33 years after it was first conceived, and against all the odds, the terrorist group survivesIn the summer of 1988, a dozen or so men gathered in the sweltering Pakistani frontier town of Peshawar. Across the border in Afghanis…
Read MoreExperts have questioned how New Zealand can be sure its military exports are not being used in YemenNew Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) approved export permits for military equipment that was sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE…
Read MoreSerum Institute reportedly citing demand in India and fire at plant to explain lack of AstraZeneca vaccineCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe world’s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India (SII), has told Brazil…
Read MoreEngineers for the national carrier, which is majority-owned by the government, worked on engines and a power turbine for the Royal Saudi NavyPrime minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to investigate after it w…
Read MoreUK-based security firm faces calls to repay charges made by recruitment agents for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zonesMigrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the United Arab Emirates have collectively been forced to pay milli…
Read MoreIran calls Paris’s response to teacher’s killing ‘unwise’ amid protests across Muslim worldThe backlash against Emmanuel Macron following his insistence that publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad is fundamental to freedom of speech has spr…
Read MoreResult follows warnings from human rights groups that UN body’s credibility at stakeRussia and China have been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years, but Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat body.Th…
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