Back From Europe, Biden Turns to Diplomatically Delicate Saudi Arabia Trip

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Reuters

By Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden turns his attention this month to a sensitive trip to the Middle East that will test his ability to reset relations with Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince after Biden denounced him as a pariah. So far, Biden has been pointedly unclear on whether he will have face-to-face talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto leader who the U.S. intelligence community concluded was behind the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and political opponent Jamal Khashoggi. While Biden is expected to…

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