Months after billionaire Jeff Bezos stared down would-be extortion, U.N. investigators on Wednesday tied the hack of Bezos’ phone to The Washington Post’s connections with slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Read moreA federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies sued by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Knight First Amendment Institute for records relating to the intelligence community’s “duty to warn” journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.
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A Saudi court verdict that exonerated the crown prince’s top aides for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been globally condemned as a travesty of justice — but won the backing of ally Washington.
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A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents.
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Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco began public trading on Wednesday, gaining 10% in its first moments on the market in a dramatic debut that pushed its value to $1.88 trillion, higher than any other listed company in the world.
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Generally, foreigners are not allowed to buy guns in the United States. But there are exceptions written into federal law, which may explain how the Saudi flight student who shot three servicemen to death at the Pensacola naval base was able to buy a weapon.
Read moreSweden-based Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson) and its subsidiaries made $427 million from paying $62 million in bribes to government officials in Saudi Arabia, China and Djibouti, the SEC claims in federal court.
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Arguments wrapped up Friday in a case before the International Court of Justice over an airspace blockade against Qatar, as the peninsular nation urged the United Nations’ highest court to let an aviation agency resolve the dispute.
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Several Persian Gulf nations returned to the International Court of Justice on Tuesday for Qatar’s opening arguments in its challenge to an airspace blockade imposed by its neighbors.
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Four Middle Eastern countries delivered the first round of oral arguments Monday before the International Court of Justice in a dispute over airspace restrictions, claiming the court has jurisdiction to take up their case against Qatar.
Read moreA former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics will go home to his family in Seattle after a two-week saga in which four federal judges ordered him to be released from jail.
Read moreThree judges have ordered a man accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics be released from jail, but the man’s fate now lies in the hands of a fourth federal judge: U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday ordered a man accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics be released from jail – but stayed his decision for seven days to give prosecutors time to appeal.
Read moreClaiming federal prosecutors are “torpedoing” the court process, a federal judge said Tuesday he will release a former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents unless the government brings him to San Francisco by next week.
Read moreUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi “a mistake” and comparing it to the death of a pedestrian struck by one of his company’s autonomous vehicles.
Read moreArguing that Saudi Arabia has helped many flee the U.S. to escape prosecution, the Justice Department immediately appealed a magistrate judge’s decision Friday to release a former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
Read moreThe Justice Department announced indictments of three men who illegally smuggled rifle parts from the United States to Saudi Arabia and tried to pass the items off as shower curtain rods or car parts.
Read moreThree Saudi Arabians — Hatim Humeed Alsufyani, 36, Mosab Alzahrani, 27, and Abdulwahab Mohammed A. Alabdulwahab, 30 — face criminal charges of buying more than $100,000 in weapons parts in the United States while on student visas and smuggling them to Saudi Arabia, federal prosecutors said in Los Angeles.
Read moreTwo former Twitter employees face federal charges of misusing their access to users’ private data to help Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
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The long-planned initial public offering of a sliver of Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco will see shares traded on Riyadh’s stock exchange in December, a Saudi-owned satellite news channel reported Tuesday as the kingdom’s marquee investment forum got underway.
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