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Spotlight UNITED STATES SAUDI ARABIA Issue dated 19/03/2014

Predator drones for Mohammed bin Nayef

Barack Obama, who is due to visit Riyadh in the last week of March, has recently begun to repair US-Saudi relations which have been strained in the past year by the White House's overtures to Tehran and its reluctance to [...]

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