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Saudi Arabia scraps NEOM Stadium, set to drop Joy Awards

The pullback follows delays at The Line, the suspension of Riyadh’s $50 billion Mukaab project, and cutting off government funding from LIV Golf

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Artist's rendering of NEOM Stadium

Saudi Arabia is shelving one of its planned World Cup stadiums and preparing to cancel its star-studded Joy Awards as budget cuts and regional conflict bite into the kingdom’s ambitions of becoming a Middle East entertainment capital.

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