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It’s a quiet day for Saudi in the foreign press today, with the conversation being driven largely by state-run SPA’s release of a statement explaining that King Salman was in and out of hospital in Jeddah for what it said was a routine checkup. The story got wide pickup in the global press, as did the IMF’s opening of a regional office in Riyadh.
AND- CNN dives deep into South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s efforts to drive closer US-Saudi ties as well as his relationship with Donald Trump, whose administration brokered 2020 agreements that saw the UAE and Bahrain recognize Israel.
MEANWHILE-Bloomberg is taking note of grammy-decorated American rapper Swiss Beatz’s venture into the world’s most lucrative camel races, which offer a USD 21 mn purse. He’s taking his team, the Saudi Bronx, to the local camel race, becoming the first American to do so.
