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Qatar-Saudi Arabia direct flights resume amid Gulf detente

by Isabel Debre
| January 11, 2021 5:21 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Qatar Airways jetliner landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, completing the first direct flight from Doha to Riyadh since the kingdom’s boycott of the tiny, energy-rich state in 2017.

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