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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing, threatens ABC News in White House meeting – as it happened
ByLucy Campbell (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier) November 18, 2025November 18, 2025

This live blog is now closed.Trump shrugs off Khashoggi murder during Saudi prince’s White House visitA reminder that Donald Trump’s family has a strong personal interest in Saudi Arabia. In September, London real estate developer Dar Global announced …

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Saudi leader’s entourage for US visit includes official implicated in Twitter spy plot
ByStephanie Kirchgaessner November 18, 2025

Senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman allegedly led campaign to identify users who were posting critically about Saudi regimeA senior official in Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage, who is expected to travel with the crown prince on his first trip back to th…

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Trump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudis as Prince Mohammed visits
ByOliver Holmes November 18, 2025

Kingdom’s de facto ruler to arrive on first White House trip since killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018Donald Trump is to welcome Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman to Washington on Tuesday, in a red-carpet visit expected to re…

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‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
ByTom Levitt and Guardian reporters November 12, 2025

Relatives share with the Guardian final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman’s ruleIn the city of Tabuk in the far north of Saudi Arabia, neon lights flicker on in an overcrowded ward of a prison…

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‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
ByTom Levitt and Guardian reporters November 12, 2025

Relatives share with the Guardian final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman’s ruleIn the city of Tabuk in the far north of Saudi Arabia, neon lights flicker on in an overcrowded ward of a prison…

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
ByHannah Jane Parkinson October 9, 2025

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?To paraph…

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
ByHannah Jane Parkinson October 9, 2025

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?To paraph…

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A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’
ByStephanie Kirchgaessner June 18, 2025

The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal KhashoggiThe tweet posted by Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in 2014 was chillingly prescient: “The Arab writer can be easily killed by thei…

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A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’
ByStephanie Kirchgaessner June 18, 2025

The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal KhashoggiThe tweet posted by Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in 2014 was chillingly prescient: “The Arab writer can be easily killed by thei…

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