Saudi Arabia, Trump and arms agreement
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The United States agreed on Tuesday to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth nearly $142 billion, according to a White House fact sheet that called it "the largest defense cooperation agreement" Washington has ever done.
The US and Saudi Arabia have finalised a $142 billion defence agreement, comprising five military modernisation areas and including over a dozen American defence contractors. It is part of a broader $600 billion investment plan,
The US president says he believes the ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia are "more powerful than ever before".
Donald Trump signed a multi-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on his first day part of a tour of the Middle East. The deal, signed on Tuesday afternoon, was hailed the "largest defence sales agreement in history" by the White House.
Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times,