Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gestures during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday Feb. 17, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wins points for hosting the Russia-US summit on Ukraine

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wasn’t in the room for the first high-level talks between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s war on Ukraine. But Mohammed bin Salman is still the winner of the day for hosting Tuesday’s gathering.
 
FILE- President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting, in Riyadh, Saturday, May 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump Organization leases brand to 2 new projects in Saudi Arabia

 
FILE - A Eurofighter from the German Air Force Weapons School takes off for an exercise in Large, Germany, Friday, April 30, 2021. The German government has approved the export of air-defense missiles to Saudi Arabia, underlining a softening of its hard line of recent years toward arms exports to the kingdom. News of the approval comes after the foreign minister said on Sunday that Germany is open to delivering more Eurofighter jets, made by a multinational consortium in which Berlin is involved, to Saudi Arabia. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP, File)

Germany approves the export of air-defense missiles to Saudi Arabia, underlining a softer approach

 
FILE - Phil Mickelson lines up a shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 29, 2022. At the dawn of 2023, the specter of Saudi Arabia’s growing influence on pro golf — and sports in general — served not only as a moral conundrum for players and their fans, but also, some argued, as an existential threat to the multibillion-dollar professional-sports industry itself. Twelve months later, it's a different conversation, now virtually devoid of concern about supposed “sportswashing” and more fixed on just how rich the Saudis might make all these athletes before they’re done investing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

In 2023, the Saudis dove further into sports. They are expected to keep it up in 2024

 
FILE - A Turkish police officer walks past a picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi prior to a ceremony, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Oct. 2, 2019. A Dubai-based broadcaster cut substantial portions of a recent episode of the satiric news program "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" over references to Saudi Arabia's crown prince being implicated in the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ censored by UAE broadcaster over references to Khashoggi’s killing

 

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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia are seen during a bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit, Tuesday, Nov.15, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Britain’s prime minister said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023 that he planned to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the “earliest opportunity,’’ after a UK newspaper reported that officials from both countries hoped to schedule a meeting between the two leaders before the end of the year in London. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP, FIle)

UK prime minister plans to meet with Saudi crown prince to discuss trade, defense cooperation