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  "id": 16489015,
  "title": "Dakar Rally moves 2027 event out of Saudi Arabia; new location to be announced",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/dakar-rally-moves-2027-event-out-of-saudi-arabia-new-location-to-be",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-25T14:28:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motorsport.com",
    "slug": "motorsport-com",
    "url": "https://www.motorsport.com/dakar/news/dakar-rally-moves-2027-event-out-of-saudi-arabia-new-location-to-be-announced/10868272/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 2027 Dakar Rally will no longer take place in Saudi Arabia as originally planned, with organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and Saudi Motorsport Company (SMC) confirming that the event will be relocated to a different region. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, ASO and SMC said that the prevailing geopolitical situation in the Middle East makes it impossible to stage the event in ...…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}