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Saudi Arabian Blogger Faces Second Round of Public Flogging
Saudi activist Raif Badawi is set to be flogged 50 times again on Friday, after being sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes and a fine of more than $260,000 for setting up the Saudi Arabian Free Liberals Forum. The blog, which championed free speech, was shut down following his arrest in 2012
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Saudi Arabia flogs blogger in public for “insulting Islam”
US-ally Saudi Arabia flogs liberal activist Raif Badawi in public Friday near a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, receiving 50 lashes for "insulting Islam," witnesses said. Badawi, 30, was arrested in June 2012 and charged with offenses ranging from cyber crime to disobeying his father and apostasy, or abandoning his faith.
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This new graphic shows the state of the U.S. war in Afghanistan
The graphic shows the vast amount of equipment that has come home since early 2014. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan had 19,400 shipping containers in the country in February 2014, but had reduced that number to 597 as of mid-December. It moved nearly 30 million pounds of cargo by plane last year, and another 8.8 by helicopter.
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Post-ABC poll: Support for Afghanistan war rises as combat mission ends
After falling to record lows, support for the Afghanistan war has risen since 2013, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds majority support for a plan to keep thousands of troops in the country in the coming year.
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Oil Set for Biggest Slump Since 2008 as OPEC Battles U.S. Shale
Oil’s slump has roiled markets from the Russian ruble to the Nigerian naira and squeezed government budgets in producing nations including Venezuela and Ecuador. It’s also boosted China’s emergency crude reserves and helped shrink fuel subsidies in India and Indonesia. OPEC has signaled it won’t cut supply to influence prices, instead preferring to defend market share amid an unprecedented U.S. shale boom.
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Saudi Arabia Said to Plan Stock Market Opening in April
Saudi Arabia is seeking to open its $509 billion stock exchange to foreign investors in April, according to three people briefed on the country’s plans. The Capital Market Authority informed brokers and fund managers of the timeline in London last month, two of the people said, asking not to be identified as the meeting was private. Saudi Arabia isn’t planning significant changes to draft rules published in August, the sources said. The country announced in July that it would open the market in the first half of 2015.
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Official: Don’t comfort enemy by calling them ISIS, ISIL
A growing number of officials both inside and outside the military believe that names like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant wrongly confer religious credibility on the terrorists who are known for public beheadings, rapes and enslavement. "Our partners, at least the ones that I work with, ask us to use that, because they feel that if you use ISIL, that you legitimize a self-declared caliphate. ... They feel pretty strongly that we should not be doing that," Terry said.
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U.S. weighing response to Palestinian statehood bid at U.N., Kerry says
Speaking to reporters in London, Kerry said Washington is engaged in a “constructive” conversation with Israelis, Palestinians and Europeans on ways to diminish violence enough so the atmosphere is ripe for peace talks to resume. But so far, he said, the United States hasn’t “made any determinations on language or wording of specific resolutions.”
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Obama, new Saudi king to discuss Yemen, Islamic State: White House
"Principally, this is to mark this transition in leadership and to pay respects to the family and the people of Saudi Arabia," Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, said on Monday. "But I'm sure that while we're there, they'll touch on some of the leading issues where we cooperate very closely with Saudi Arabia," Rhodes told reporters in New Delhi.
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IHS lowers Saudi Arabia’s PV forecast after push-out of renewable energy plans
Market research firm, IHS has significantly lowered its PV demand forecast for Saudia Arabia in response to the country pushing back its renewable energy plans by eight years in the wake of plummeting oil prices.
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