[Perspectives] Leadership bid
Aarathi Prasad | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
The Perfect Candidate, director Haifaa Al-Mansour's second film based in Saudi Arabia, opens with a scene of an old man on a stretcher, bloodied and groaning after a collision with a truck brings him to the only emergency room in the area. Once the under-resourced clinic staff have heaved him through the only route into the building–a mud-clogged and flooded road–he opens his eyes to what for him is an even greater horror: the face of the only doctor qualified to treat him. Through her niqab, a pair of determined eyes examine him, as Dr Maryam expertly turns the patient's body to palpate his spine.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30637-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Kathy Kelly | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it's timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen's health care facilities 83 times…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/vigil-for-peace-in-yemen-a-new-norm/

G20 Emergency Meeting Convenes on Coronavirus Health and Economic Impacts
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
Saudi Arabia chaired an emergency virtual G20 meeting for Presidents and Prime Minsters as the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the global economy.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/26/18831844.php

Saudi Arabian Airlines to start UK repatriation flights
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-28
Saudi Arabian Airlines has agreed to operate exceptional commercial flights to allow British nationals and their families to return to the United Kingdom, according to a British embassy message sent by e-mail late on Friday.The airline will operate flights in the week starting March 29 from Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam to London's Heathrow Airport and additional flights if required, it said.
yenisafak.com/en/life/saudi-arabian-airlines-to-start-uk-repatriation-flights-3515266

What Trump is Doing in the Middle East While You are Distracted by COVID-19
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-27
And still the virus shrouds Donald Trump's mischief in the Middle East. First it was his sly retreat from Iraq; now it's his cosy military exercises with the United Arab Emirates

Virtual G20 Summit Ends With Vague Promises, Sparks Critics
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-26
The group of 20 (G20) comprising the 20 most prosperous and large economies held Thursday a virtual summit chaired by Saudi Arabia, at the end of which the member nations expressed their confidence that the world "will overcome" the global coronavirus pandemic. | RELATED: | US Surpasses China in Number of COVID-19 Cases | G20 leaders, whose countries account for more than 80 percent in the world's GDP, issued a statement following the two hours video meeting saying they will present "a united…
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Has Saudi Arabia Shot Itself in the Foot With Its Oil Price War?
Darius Shahtahmasebi | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-26
The impact of coronavirus has destroyed the demand for oil and neither Saudi Arabia, Russia or the United States will escape the resulting price war unscathed.
mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-shot-foot-oil-price-war-coronavirus/266079/

UN chief calls for ceasefire as Yemen braces for possible COVID-19 outbreak
news.un.org | 2020-03-25
Echoing his 23 March appeal to warring parties across the globe for an immediate ceasefire, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on those fighting in Yemen to end hostilities and ramp up efforts to counter a potential outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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