The world in briefAfter exchanging a fist-bump with Muhammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, in Jeddah, America’s president, Joe Biden, says he confronted him about Jamal Khashoggi , a journalist whose state-sponsored murder in 2018 once prompted Mr Biden to threaten to make the kingdom a “pariah”...Mr Biden vowed to use executive action to cut greenhouse-gas emissions after climate-change legislation stalled in America’s Senate...Russia shelled Nikopol in south Ukraine on Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks on cities that have killed at least 37 people since Thursday...

Source: The North Africa Journal July 16, 2022 11:37 UTC