Gulf | Saudi Arabia
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Friday Feb 10
Security forces shoot, kill, Shiite protester in Saudi
Security forces opened fire on a demonstration in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich east, fatally wounding a Shiite protester, activists and witnesses said on Friday
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Friday Feb 10
Malaysian police detain Saudi tweeter
Malaysian police Friday said they had detained a young Saudi journalist who fled his country after Twitter comments he made about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) triggered calls for his execution
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Thursday Feb 9
Mystery about controversial Saudi columnist's location deepens
The Saudi national has reportedly fled Saudi Arabia after he was accused of blasphemy
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Wednesday Feb 8
Saudi king orders controversial columnist's arrest
Hamza Kashgari waded into controversy after he posted a series of controversial tweets
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Sunday Feb 5
Saudi women push challenge to driving ban
Courts urged to take up lawsuits demanding the right to drive
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Monday Jan 30
Saudi beheads Pakistani drug-smuggler: ministry
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man who was arrested as he tried to smuggle drugs into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said on Monday
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Monday Jan 30
Saudi Mufti, Pope urge caution with social media
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti and Pope Benedict XVI have urged people to "exercise proper discernment in the face of the surfeit of stimuli and data" that they receive on the internet
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Sunday Jan 29
Saudi Mufti, Pope urge caution in using social media
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti and Pope Benedict XVI have urged people to "exercise proper discernment in the face of the surcharge of stimuli and data" that they receive on the Internet
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Saturday Jan 28
Saudi artists test limits of freedom of expression
Rare exhibition in kingdom affords them opportunity for social commentary through art as region's political landscape continues to change
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Monday Jan 23
Businessman hires 13 lawyers to recover $7 million
A Saudi national has hired 13 lawyers in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, to recover $7 million from his Mauritanian partner who fled his home country
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