The delegations held a meeting lasting over five hours in Riyadh. Moscow dampened enthusiasm by stating ‘it is still difficult to talk about rapprochement’
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
The best known example of spyware, the Pegasus software from Israel’s NSO Group, was used to target more than 1,000 people across 50 countries
The Arab country’s sports spending program has been seen as sportswashing to soften a national image associated with its record on women’s rights and the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Government expresses consternation at the journalist’s death but cites Saudi prosecutors’ information