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In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Salman attends the official welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salman ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by individuals when they were minors, according to a statement Sunday, April 26, 2020, by a top official. The decision comes on the heels of another which orders judges to end the practice of flogging and to issue in its place jail time, fines or community service, bringing to a close one of the kingdom’s most controversial forms of public punishment. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for minors

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, two workers climb down from one of the tanks in an oil tank-farm in Jebel Ali, 25 miles (40 km) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The historic crash in oil prices in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is reverberating across the Middle East as crude-dependent countries scramble to offset losses from a key source of state revenue. The economies of all the Arab Gulf oil exporters are expected to contract this year. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Mideast economies take massive hit with oil price crash

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Salman attends the official welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salman ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by individuals when they were minors, according to a statement Sunday, April 26, 2020, by a top official. The decision comes on the heels of another which orders judges to end the practice of flogging and to issue in its place jail time, fines or community service, bringing to a close one of the kingdom’s most controversial forms of public punishment. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for minors and floggings

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Swedish group: Imprisoned Saudi activist dies in custody

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Illustration on Saudi action in protecting the U.S. shale oil industry by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump saving the U.S. shale industry could not have happened without Saudi Arabia

By S. Rob Sobhani

FILE - This May 30, 2017 file photo, shows Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman, (MBS), in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Saudi officials have arrested two members of the royal family for allegedly plotting to oust King Salman and the son he has designated to succeed him, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Friday, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool, File)

EPL told to consider blocking Saudi Arabia buying Newcastle

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Demand for oil continues to fall due to the new coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump claims credit after Russia-Saudi Arabia oil deal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Putin traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday, meeting with the oil-rich nation's king and crown prince as he seeks to cement Moscow's political and energy ties across the Mideast. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Saudis, Russians reach deal to ease oil price wars

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, March 30, 2020 file photo, people carry the body of a victim who died after being infected with the new coronavirus at a cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran. Across the Middle East and parts of South Asia, bereaved families have faced traumatic restrictions on burying their dead amid the pandemic. Religion and customs that require speedy burials in the largely Muslim region have clashed with fears of COVID-19 contagion and government-mandated lockdowns. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Saudi Arabia halts parental visitation rulings to curb virus

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 photo, men inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. The missile fired by the Saudi-led coalition killed a judge and his entire family in the Nahda neighborhood, security officials said. The judge was a known Houthi supporter. On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced that its forces would begin a cease-fire starting at midnight, in what could pave the way for the first direct peace talks between the two sides that have been at war for more than five years. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi officials announce Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 2, 2020 photo, an oil rig lights up the horizon on the outskirts of Midland, Texas after a late sunset. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)

Chaos and scrambling in the US oil patch as prices plummet

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

FILE- This Oct. 9, 2018, file photo shows an oil rig and pump jack in Midland, Texas. Goldman Sachs is warning of another sharp drop in oil prices, Thursday, March 26, 2020, saying some oil producers are eventually going to have to shut some wells because the coronavirus outbreak is crushing demand. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP, File, File)

Saudi Arabia sharply rebukes Russia over oil price collapse

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Muslim worshippers wear masks after the noon prayers outside the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 7, 2020. Few worshippers were allowed to circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, over fears of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi Arabia mandates 24-hour curfew in holy cities Mecca and Medina

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Armco and stock market officials celebrate during the official ceremony marking the debut of Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh's stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On April 2, 2020, President Trump said the Saudi government had assured him it was cutting back on oil production. News of the agreement gave a boost to oil prices and the stock market. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) **FILE**

Trump says Russia and Saudi Arabia will cut oil production, stocks rise

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Armco and stock market officials celebrate during the official ceremony marking the debut of Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh's stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On April 2, 2020, President Trump said the Saudi government had assured him it was cutting back on oil production. News of the agreement gave a boost to oil prices and the stock market. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) **FILE**

Trump says he expects Russia, Saudis to cut oil production

By AYA BATRAWY and CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Armco and stock market officials celebrate during the official ceremony marking the debut of Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh's stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On April 2, 2020, President Trump said the Saudi government had assured him it was cutting back on oil production. News of the agreement gave a boost to oil prices and the stock market. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) **FILE**

Trump tweet buoys market, but oil accord up in the air

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Saudi forces destroy missile fired over capital Riyadh

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Turkish prosecutors file indictment over Jamal Khashoggi killing

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, an armed Saudi soldier holds a walkie-talkie near Mukalla, Yemen, at an airport now serving as a military base for the United Arab Emirates. In a new report released Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia of committing grave abuses against civilians in an eastern province of Yemen over the past year, including torture, forced disappearances and detention. The New York-based watchdog presented chilling testimony from former detainees in Yemen’s remote eastern province of al-Mahrah, which borders Saudi Arabia and Oman. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Human rights group accuses Saudi forces in Yemen of abuses

Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP) ** FILE **

Iran’s president rejects criticism of coronavirus response

By Nasser Karimi and Aya Batrawy - Associated Press