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Saudi Arabia
WPP-owned comms group rues messy split from sports minister

Saudi Minister of Sport Prince Abdelaziz bin Turki bin Faisal al-Saud.
Saudi Minister of Sport Prince Abdelaziz bin Turki bin Faisal al-Saud. © Saudi Arabian Ministry of Sports/Anadolu Agency/Anadolu via AFP
Heeding the government's call to set up in the kingdom, a raft of new PR agencies have beefed up their Riyadh operations. But Hill & Knowlton, the dominant player in the region, has a cautionary tale to tell its competitors about how to transact with the kingdom's power brokers, in its case, the sports minister himself. [...]
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