The US Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to override a presidential veto on a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
The legislation is part of a potential sea change in the kingdom’s relationships with the west over its alleged connection to religious extremism and its conduct of the war in Yemen.
Despite fierce last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and the Saudi embassy in Washington, the Senate voted 97-1 to support the bill, which Barack Obama vetoed last week.
您已閱讀21%(515字),剩餘79%(1938字)包含更多重要資訊,訂閱以繼續探索完整內容,並享受更多專屬服務。