The brother of Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend sued the National Enquirer and its parent company Monday alleging the company’s dredging up of dirt on the world’s richest man – and its attempt to cover up the scheme – defamed him and damaged his family.
Read moreA day after Turkish authorities charged 20 Saudis in connection with journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, a New York federal judge advanced a bid Thursday to include that international scandal as part of a lawsuit seeking to hold the kingdom liable for the 9/11 attacks.
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Turkish prosecutors have charged two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 other Saudi nationals with the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, officials said Wednesday.
Read moreA federal class action claims World Wrestling Entertainment failed to disclose that Saudi Arabia refused to pay millions of dollars for broadcast rights, and when it was revealed WWE stock fell by more than 60% in a day, closing at $40.24.
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Energy titan Saudi Aramco said Tuesday it will boost its supply of crude oil to 12.3 million barrels per day in April, flooding markets as it escalates a price war with Russia.
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As Russia’s share of the pie shrank, the United States increased arms exports by 23% in the last five years, helping to make Saudi Arabia the world’s largest arms importer, a Swedish peace group reported Monday.
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A little less than a year before his murder in Istanbul, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi spoke to an investigator for the 9/11 families suing Saudi Arabia and sent a text message to senior officials for the kingdom that day.
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Saudi Arabia is using a secretive criminal court to silence critical voices, including clerics and rights activists, and calling it a fight against terrorism, Amnesty International said Thursday.
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Across the vast expanse of this desert air base, hundreds of tents have popped up and a newly arrived squadron of U.S. Air Force F-15E fighters is lined up on the tarmac, flying daily missions over Iraq and Syria. Off in the distance, two U.S. Patriot missile batteries are scanning the skies, prepared to knock down any Iranian attack against the Saudi kingdom.
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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.
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