Riyadh on Wednesday confirmed the killing of a Saudi tribal activist who had reportedly refused to leave his home to make way for the construction of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s controversial megacity project NEOM in the area. Abdul-Rahim al-Howeiti, of the large Howeitat tribe that inhabits southwest Jordan, Sinai and northwestern Saudi Arabia, was shot dead by Saudi security in Al-Khuraybah, more than 1400 km north west of the ...