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Biden Defends Exemption of Saudi Prince for Khashoggi Murder

Biden’s preference to handle the gruesome slaying diplomatically opens questions about future recalibration of the U.S.-Saudi relationship. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at at King Abdul Aziz race track in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for last month’s $20 million award ceremony during the final race of the Saudi Cup. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) WASHINGTON (CN) On the campaign trail, Joe Biden said that Saudi Arabia would pay for the 2018 murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.  But on Wednesday, President Biden backed off that hard-nosed stance.  In an ABC interview that aired Wednesday, Biden defended his decision to waive individual punishment for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a U.S. intelligence report released in February named the country’s de facto ruler as responsible for Khasshoggi’s killing.

Vaccine nationalism in the Gulf: Kuwait s cruel COVID caste system - Middle East News

Follow Mar. 14, 2021 Ever since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, on March 11, 2020, Gulf states have openly favored protecting their own citizens, a tiny minority of their populations, over millions of migrant workers, treating them as a disposable workforce entitled to second-class rights only.  Nowhere is that more visible than in Kuwait. A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, Kuwaiti citizens are jumping the queue to get jabbed before migrant workers, who account for about two-thirds of the 4.5 million-strong population. Kuwait is vaccinating its citizens at six times the rate of migrant workers, despite foreigners living and working in the oil-rich Gulf state accounting for more than half of those registered for vaccination.

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