Joe Biden talks to Saudi king ahead of Khashoggi report release
By DW
26 February 2021 |
1:30 pm
US President Joe Biden has spoken with Saudi Arabia's King Salman, but there was apparently no mention of the upcoming publication of a sensitive US intelligence report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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