Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi crown prince secretly lobbied Trump to attack Iran
Mohammed bin Salman argued in favour of strikes during phone calls with the US president, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued urging the US to act against Iran.
- Melanie Swan and Kieran Kelly
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‘Things happen’: Trump downplays journalist’s murder as he hosts Saudi leader
Donald Trump admonished a reporter for asking about Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 assassination: “You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”
- Michael Koziol
Trump’s son-in-law teams with Saudi crown prince in record $84 billion deal
Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are making a big bet on video games.
- Michael Liedtke and Michelle Chapman
Some of the world’s biggest comedians are heading to Saudi Arabia. It’s no joke
US comedians are taking aim at colleagues who are accepting huge pay packets to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
- Derrick Bryson Taylor
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- Trump's White House
Trump thinks he is the king of making great deals. He is wrong
It hasn’t taken long for the president to get involved in an astonishingly wide range of international crises.
- The Economist
Ex-Lib living his best life and ‘flying the flag’ in Saudi Arabia
Wyatt Roy was Australia’s youngest MP and minister. Now he is in the kingdom, where he had a front-row seat to Donald Trump’s arms mega-deal.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
‘Oh what I do for the crown prince’: Trump to lift sanctions on Syria after rebel takeover
The US president also secured a $926 billion US investment commitment from Saudi Arabia and expressed a willingness to negotiate with Iran.
- Yousef Saba, Gram Slattery, Pesha Magid and Nafisa Eltahir
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Saudi Arabia very safe for women, says Liberal candidate who does business there
Amnesty International continues to raise the alarm about Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship laws, which give men authority over women in most aspects of life in the kingdom.
- Angus Delaney and Paul Sakkal
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- The Fitz Files
Gout Gout in the Stawell Gift is a masterstroke – there’s just one problem
The young sprint sensation’s participation in the famous handicap race on Easter Monday will be unmissable.
- Peter FitzSimons
FIFA names Saudi Arabia as 2034 World Cup host; three nations to co-host 2030 edition
The decisions complete a mostly opaque 15-month bid process which FIFA president Gianni Infantino helped steer toward Saudi Arabia without a rival candidate.
- Graham Dunbar