US President Joe Biden is travelling to Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to meet senior officials despite a previous promise to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Biden departed directly from Israel for the Red Sea coast city of Jeddah on Friday – becoming the first US president to fly from there to an Arab nation that does not recognise it. In 2017, his predecessor, Donald Trump, made the journey in reverse.The trip is designed to reset the US relationship with the kingdom and during which energy supply, human rights and security cooperation are on the agenda.
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