WASHINGTON — After years of isolation over his human rights abuses, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is elevating his standing in the United States in part by diving into American sports, business and culture. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who in 2018 had promised a “tsunami” of opposition against the crown prince over Saudi Arabia’s killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, tweeted …
Saudi Arabia transferred a stake worth about $80 billion in state oil giant Aramco to the kingdom’s wealth fund as part of plans to boost its assets under management to over $1 trillion in four years. Saudi Arabia said it will transfer 4% of its stock in the state-run oil giant Aramco to its state investment fund, a nearly $80 …
Aranese: Spain's little-known language Richard Collett Geographically, Spain's Val d'Aran should be part of France, but it's neither French, Spanish nor Catalan in culture, history or even language. "We are Aranese because we speak Aranese," said Jusèp Loís Sans Socasau passionately, when I stepped into his office in Vielha, Val d'Aran's capital. In Val d'Aran, the Occitan language survived as …
