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“When we, as Saudis, heard last Friday the news of the hideous crime inside the Pensacola naval base in Florida, we were shocked…This work can only be done by a cowardly villain. He has betrayed his country, which trusted him and spent millions on his education. Instead, he stabbed her in the back and created a major political and cultural crisis.”
–Dr. Hamdan Al-Shehri, Saudi political analyst and international relations scholar, writing in Arab News.
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A Saudi soldier in training in the United States opened fire on a naval base in Pensacola, Florida on Friday, killing three and wounding 12.
Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was then killed by a sheriff’s deputy who responded to the attack. The attack shocked Saudis and Americans alike. [more]
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Saudi Aramco sold 3 billion shares at 32 riyals ($8.53) each in its IPO, raising $25.6 billion, making it the world’s biggest IPO.
The IPO values Aramco at roughly $1.7 trillion, making it the most valuable publicly traded company in the world ahead of Apple, which is worth about $1.15 trillion. It also soared past the previous record IPO, China’s Alibaba when it made its 2014 public debut. [more]
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MORE TOP STORYLINES
Via Marwa Rashad and Davide Barbuscia in reuters.com : “The final number of shares sold is 3.450 billion shares, and the final value of the deal is $29.4 billion,” Khatib said.
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in bbc.com : Saudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, the government says. Previously, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own. The restrictions had already been quietly eased in practice, with many restaurants, cafes and other meeting places no longer enforcing segregation.
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Via Nic Robertson in cnn.com : On a Friday — the holiest day of the week in Saudi Arabia — when official responses to anything can be slow, King Salman has cut through every usual boundary to take charge, and to be seen to be in charge.
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