Breaking news live updates: President Trump will host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with state-level honours and plans for major defence deals, marking the prince\u2019s first US trip since Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s 2018 murder.<\/p>\n
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to receive an opulent reception from US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, marking his first trip to the United States since the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n
Trump plans to honour him with a flypast, cannon salute, and a formal banquet\u2014an honour typically reserved for heads of state, even though the prince is only the kingdom\u2019s de facto leader.<\/p>\n
The US president has prioritised strengthening relations with the oil-rich Gulf nation and said on Monday that he intends to proceed with selling F-35 stealth aircraft to Saudi Arabia, despite objections from Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking news live updates: President Trump will host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with state-level honours and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,455,155679,154961,450,144,154963,49967,451,155680,155685,33613,155682,3471,144105,155681,3,155686,155684,155688,103922,155683,452,453,3479,155687],"class_list":["post-298768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-live","tag-breaking-news-today","tag-breaking-news-updates","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-delhi-blast","tag-delhi-news-today","tag-headlines","tag-india-breaking-updates","tag-india-flooding-news","tag-india-news-live","tag-india-security-alert","tag-japan","tag-latest-news-live","tag-national-news-live","tag-news","tag-polands-railway-explosion","tag-political-news-live","tag-prince-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-sheikh-hasina","tag-terror-alert-india","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-vietnam-suffers-landslides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}