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  • Saudi Arabia ‘maturer guys’ in spat with U.S., energy minister says

    Saudi Arabia decided to be the "maturer guys" in a spat with the United States over oil supplies, the kingdom's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tuesday. The decision by the OPEC+ oil producer group led by Saudi Arabia this month to cut oil output targets unleashed a war of words between the White House and Riyadh ahead of the kingdom's Future Investment Initiative (FII) forum, which drew top U.S. business executives.

  • CNN talks with Saudi Ambassador to U.S.: Video

    Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S., explains to CNN's Becky Anderson where the relationship between the two countries stands during a wide-ranging interview in Riyadh.

  • Saudi forum set to draw U.S. business leaders despite tensions

    More than 400 U.S. delegates are expected to attend this week, Richard Attias, CEO of the FII Institute, told Reuters, adding this was the largest representation of a foreign country. This year's edition, running Oct. 25-27, includes JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, Pimco Vice Chairman John Studzinski and a BNY Mellon executive as speakers, and they still plan to go, spokespeople for the companies told Reuters.

  • Can The U.S. Afford A Conflict With Saudi Arabia?

    With US refineries running at 89% of capacity, up 5% compared to this time around last year, it will not be gasoline but diesel that would be under serious upward pressure over the upcoming weeks.

  • Commentary: The U.S.-Saudi Rift Over Oil Prices Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

    Another thing that hasn’t changed is presidential blundering. Before resigning, Richard Nixon, like Mr. Biden, favored high prices as an incentive to develop alternative energy sources—and to fund Iran’s massive purchases of U.S. arms so the shah could serve as America’s bulwark for stability in the Mideast. That arms buildup in Iran alarmed Saudi Arabia then. Now the Saudi monarchy is fed up with Mr. Biden’s repeated disparagement of oil as an evil that must quickly be replaced by expensive green alternatives that aren’t yet anywhere near capable of sustaining global energy needs.

  • Ukrainians Denounce Kremlin, Pivot to U.S.

    Less than a decade ago, critics of the Kremlin would have been hard to find in Ukraine. But now, more than six months into the war with Russia, only the critics remain -- including in the parts of Ukraine where Russia declared martial law on Wednesday. Nearly all Ukrainians -- 96% of Ukrainians surveyed by Gallup in early September -- disapprove of Russia's leadership. Less than half of 1% of all Ukrainians approve.

  • U.S. fought to keep veterans’ jobs with foreign governments secret

    The Post sued the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the State Department in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). After a two-year legal battle, The Post obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents, including case files for about 450 retired soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

  • Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison over tweets

    Almadi, a project manager from Florida, was detained last November after traveling to Riyadh to visit family. The tweets he was arrested for were posted on his account over the past seven years and largely rebuked the Saudi government's policies and corruption.

  • U.S. says it’s raised concerns with Saudis over detention of U.S. citizen

    The U.S. State Department confirmed that a Saudi-American citizen has been detained in Saudi Arabia, and said that Washington has repeatedly raised its concerns over his jailing, most recently on Monday. Saudi Arabia in early October handed a 16-year prison sentence to Saudi-American Saad Ibrahim Almadi, the Washington Post reported late on Monday, over his tweets critical of the Saudi government. Almadi was charged with "harboring a terrorist ideology, trying to destabilise the Kingdom, as well as supporting and funding terrorism," the Post reported. He was also handed a 16-year travel ban.

  • Biden’s Ire Won’t Keep U.S. Executives From Big Saudi Summit

    Mr. Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive, who is listed on the conference’s website as a featured speaker, is still expected to attend. So are Steve Schwarzman of the investment giant Blackstone, Ray Dalio of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and Michael Arthur, Boeing’s top international executive.