Families reunite as Qatar-Saudi flights resume after rift


  • World
  • Tuesday, 12 Jan 2021

A woman hugs her relative who arrived from Doha, at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

DOHA/RIYADH (Reuters) - Khalid al-Qahtani stood in the arrivals hall at Riyadh's main airport on Monday, waiting to see his sister almost four years after a diplomatic rift with neighbouring Qatar split his family apart.

Other relatives from other families clustered around him waiting for the passengers to get off the first flight from Doha allowed into Saudi Arabia since a U.S-backed deal reopened travel routes.

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