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Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi was scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia on Monday. EPA
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi was scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia on Monday. EPA
Iraqi PM's visit to Saudi Arabia postponed as King Salman is taken to hospital
The trip would have been Mustafa Al Kadhimi's first foreign visit after taking office in May
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20 July, 2020