Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman becomes the first foreign leader to hold a phone call with US President Donald Trump since his return to office. The call indicates the Trump administration's priorities, with the president expressing his desire to expand the Abraham Accords with a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have made clear that such a deal would require the establishment of a pathway to the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. Bin Salman told Trump that Saudi Arabia would like to expand its investments in the US over the next four years to $600 billion. Trump also signed an executive order directing the State Department to prepare a report recommending the reapplication of the Foreign Terrorist Organization label to the Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement in Yemen.
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