Biden raised Khashoggi murder with Saudi crown prince

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  • July 16, 2022

US President Joe Biden, who arrived in Saudi Arabia to rebuild the Saudi-US relationship, has said that he raised the issue of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

After the October 2018 murder of journalist Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, US intelligence agencies accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman with murder.

Aside from Khashoggi’s murder, President Biden discussed increasing oil supplies to the market and announced that Saudi Arabia would open its airspace to the aircrafts flying to and from Israel, which was previously banned.

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