The US is urging Saudi Arabia to back off its oil price war with Russia, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday. The official Saudi Press Agency said the two “reviewed exerted efforts to maintain stability in the global energy markets.” The US State Department’s readout of the call said that Pompeo “stressed that as a leader of the G20 and an important energy leader, Saudi Arabia has a real opportunity to rise to the occasion and reassure global energy and financial markets when the world faces serious economic uncertainty.” The call came ahead of a G20 leaders videoconference that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who holds the international body’s chairmanship this year, is hosting Wednesday to discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has already caused […]