Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, held talks in Jeddah on Sunday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, hours after Riyadh and Tokyo signed 26 agreements covering several sectors, most notably energy and investment. The leaders held talks on bilateral relations, especially in the fields of economics, trade, investment, and culture. They also tackled means to boost cooperation in line with the Saudi-Japan Vision 2030. They exchanged views on several regional and international issues and efforts made towards them.
Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Minister of Defense, met in his office in Riyadh, France's Ambassador to the Kingdom Ludovic Pouille. During the meeting, they reviewed the bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and France and discussed a number of issues of common concern. The meeting was attended by Prince Abdulrahman bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf, Deputy Minister of Defense; the Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Fayyad bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili; and the Assistant Minister of Defense for Executive Affairs Dr. Khaled bin Hussein Al-Bayari.
Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha met in China Thursday with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tus-Holdings Co, Wang Jiwu, and corporate leaders to set the future direction of the partnership and to establish an incubator for innovation in deep technologies in King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, which will be the first launch of joint innovation incubators as part of the cooperation between the two countries.
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro. Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign ups, looks to take on Elon Musk's Twitter by leveraging Instagram's billions of users. Spiro, in his letter, accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who "had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information," News website Semafor first reported.