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World Service,21 Nov 2018,53 mins

Donald Trump Defends Ties With Saudi Arabia

Newsday

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President Trump says his administration will continue to back Saudi Arabia, despite acknowledging that its Crown Prince could have known about the murder of a dissident journalist; twenty children have been kidnapped from a school in Cameroon, reportedly by unidentified gunmen; and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who have faced international criticism for waging a war against Houthi rebels in Yemen, say they are donating five hundred million dollars to provide food to millions of people close to starvation;

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