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Israeli MP: Normalization with Saudis not imminent
Reuters – A top Israeli lawmaker said on Sunday that any forging of relations with Saudi Arabia does not appear imminent, citing what he described as sticking points in negotiations currently being held between Riyadh and US mediators.
“I think it’s too early to talk about a deal being in the works,” Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, told Israel’s Army Radio.
Senegal’s opposition leader charged with conspiracy
AP – Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections among other offenses, the public prosecutor said Saturday.
The announcement comes weeks after Sonko was convicted on separate charges of corrupting youth and sentenced to two years in prison, which ignited deadly protests across the nation, where at least 23 people were killed and dozens injured.