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Saudi Arabia's daily Coronavirus vaccination rates passed 400,000 as the government continued to emphasize the importance of the jab ahead of a key deadline in which citizens and residents will need to prove they have received the vaccine to take part in many normal daily activities.

Saudi Arabia's deputy defense minister and former ambassador to the United States Prince Khaled bin Salman on Tuesday became the highest-ranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January, Reuters reports.

New details are emerging regarding Saudi Arabia's new plans to turbocharge growth in the Kingdom's transportation sector and place it in more direct competition with the UAE as a hub connecting east and west, according to comments from the Kingdom's transportation minister this week.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting to restore the U.N.-backed government in Yemen and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels are working on a peace deal that would bring toward a close the years-long fighting in the country, according to a report in Reuters, which cited three sources.