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For Mohammed bin Salman, the G20 summit was always going to be a test. This was the first time the Saudi Crown Prince had appeared on the international stage since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
And there have been widespread accusations that the killing of the Saudi journalist was ordered at the highest levels of the Saudi government.

So the summit in Buenos Aires was a chance to assess the scale of the international isolation the Saudi prince was or was not facing.

The first signs came at the family photo, the ritualistic assembly of the leaders for a photograph to mark the summit. The mingling, the handshakes, the body language can reveal what many a bland press statement cannot.
MBS - as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia is known by his acronym - was at the far end of the line rather by himself. He is the only Arab leader in the G20 and already stood out in his traditional dress amid a sea of suits. And at times he looked uncertain, even nervous. Some of his counterparts shared a word or two but few went out of their way to shake his hand.

They know just how toxic the Saudi leader is seen by some of their electorates. The one exception was President Putin of Russia. He bounded up to MBS and engaged in an elaborate and vigorous high five, grinning rather obviously for the cameras. The Russian leader is a past master in winding up liberal Western leaders while also nodding to his strategic need to stay close to Saudi Arabia.
So the optics of the summit, to use the diplomatic jargon, were not that great for MBS. And when it came to his meetings, they were equally tricky.

On one level, he was not shunned. Many leaders were ready to speak to him, both briefly and formally, including those from the US, India, South Korea, Mexico, South Africa and China. The Saudi foreign ministry tweeted out pictures of the meetings with almost indecent haste
But the prince did not get a fair wind at all these encounters.

Theresa May met him for the first time since the murder of Khashoggi and one source said she had been very direct. The Prime Minister's spokesman said she urged the crown prince to make sure Saudi Arabia co-operated fully with the Turkish investigation.
She said that to ensure full accountability, there had to be full transparency about what happened and who was responsible. And she said Saudi Arabia had to take action to build confidence that such a deplorable incident could not happen again. The Prime Minister also urged the Saudi leader to back political talks on the Yemen conflict expected next week
President Macron of France also met Prince Mohamed in the margins of the summit and called for international investigators to get involved in the hunt for Khashoggi's killers. Footage of the meeting suggested that Mr Macron told MBS that he was worried and did not think the Saudi leader was listening to him.

The truth is that summit accurately reflected the Saudi crown prince's standing in the world. There remains some real anger felt by his fellow leaders by the way that Saudi Arabia - and potentially he - has behaved. And that anger has yet to dissipate while the investigation into Khashoggi's murder remains unfinished
But at the same time, most of these leaders know that it is in their country's national interest to remain engaged with Saudi Arabia, that they have trade and intelligence relationships that need to be protected, and that it is better to keep talking rather than chucking rocks from a distance.

So at this G20 summit, there was no obvious snub, no clear signal that MBS has been placed on the global diplomatic bench kept for international pariahs.

But equally it was clear that his reputation has some way to go before it is repaired. And that will depend on how he responds once the Turkish investigation into the Khashoggi murder is complete.

Former US President George HW Bush has died at the age of 94, his son George W Bush has announced.

George Bush Sr, as he was known, passed away on Friday evening, a spokesperson said on behalf of the family.

He was the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, after serving two terms as vice-president to Ronald Reagan.

In April, he was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit with a blood infection, a week after the death of his wife of 73 years, Barbara.

Despite achieving popularity ratings of 90%, the Republican was accused of neglecting domestic affairs and was defeated by Bill Clinton in the 1992 election.

Bush Sr joined politics in 1964 after starting a Texan oil business and becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

During World War Two, he was an aviator against the Japanese before being shot down in September 1944 while on a bombing raid.

He is survived by five of his children and their spouses, 17 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two siblings

The head of Russian military intelligence agency GRU, General Igor Korobov, has died at the age of 62, Russia's defence ministry says.

Gen Korobov, who took up the post in 2016, is said to have died after "a serious and long illness" on Wednesday.

The GRU was this year linked to a nerve agent attack in Britain on ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

Gen Korobov is understood to have faced criticism by Russian officials over the failure of the operation.

The attack on Mr Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury on 4 March led to them requiring weeks of hospital treatment.

The poisoning is alleged to have been carried out by suspects Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga, both identified by British authorities as GRU operatives, and "almost certainly" approved by the Russian state.

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well....i knew something like dis wud happen......all d northern elites hate dis guy because of his liberal and modernist views.......i hope he overcomes all his distractors and triumph over all dose wu dont want him to succed

dis man is a modernist,reformer and too liberal for dis post.....i hope he his not assassinated sha....he needs to take things slowly and thread carefully

interesting

everyone in zaria knows d shiite r constituting a nuisance to dem....dey also knw dat d Shiite wants everyone to fear dem...

hungryboy:
You will be very wrong to believe that this guys handed over all their weapons to the army in exchange for amnesty,
This guys were never freedom fighters or activists in the first place,
This guys were and are still are thugs and thieves,
The are responsible for the upsurge in cultism, kidnapping and bunkering and other vices that are going on in our region,
And the have thousands of touts at their beck and call

what is dis one saying.... dey wir never activist...but dir agitation and struggle led to a profound positive influence on their people,they may b thugs following dem but their struggle was legitimate and wen d federal govt was ready to negotiate and come to dir terms sud dey keep on fighting...it is den dat dey will become thugs as u implied

IF WESTERN EDUCATION IS FORBBIDEN....R DEY LEARNING ALL OF DIS IN DIR MADRASSAS OR QURANIC SCHOOLS

so he's richer than buhari?......wir I'm come get all d money

Muslims in c.a.r drew first blood by launching a coup and d killing of xtians.. dey never envisaged d kind of response from d xtians....they simply got served

EBORA OWU!!!!

well....they started it...dey never envisaged such a fight back from the Christians

these people hv shown us dat dey r catastrophic mistakes on Nigerians voters part

dey r strategizing abt hw to remain as covert pdp within apc

thank God for ur life