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Iraqi forces shoot three dead in southern city as protests flare
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces shot three anti-government protesters dead in the southern city of Nassiriya yesterday, police and medics said, adding to scores killed in weeks of unrest that have shaken the war-weary country out of relative stability it had enjoyed
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Saudi backs down from beheading Shiite man arrested as juvenile
NEW YORK: A young man from Saudi Arabia’s minority Shiite Muslim community arrested at the age of 13 will not be executed and could be released by 2022, a Saudi official told Reuters yesterday following reports of his pending execution.
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Saudi renovates Shiite Awamiya after crushing revolt
Strip malls and palm-dotted boulevards stand in the once bullet-scarred old quarter of Awamiya, a Shiite-majority town on Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern coast where the long-planned facelift fuelled deadly clashes. Until a year ago, Musawara neighbourhood resembled a war zone
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