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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah named his defense minister and half brother as crown prince, making the traditionalist former governor of Riyadh next in line to lead the world’s largest oil supplier.
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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah named his interior minister and half brother as crown prince, putting a conservative chief of police next in line to lead the world’s largest oil exporter.
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The Saudis making the biggest splash on social media aren’t the youthful, secular activists who led protest movements elsewhere in the Arab world last year. They’re religious scholars like Salman al-Oadah.
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Saudi Arabia’s backing for rebels in Syria is the latest sign that Arab unrest is pushing the traditionally reticent kingdom into more active diplomacy.
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When Saudi King Abdullah appeared in a newspaper photo with 40 veiled women in April, he broke a taboo by mixing with the opposite sex in public.
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Thailand’s central bank lowered its growth forecasts as floods began overwhelming the capital of Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, raising the odds of an interest-rate cut in the coming months.
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Matthew Lobner, head of Thai operations for HSBC Holdings Plc, lugged his furniture upstairs and moved his wife and three children near his office in downtown Bangkok to escape floodwaters on the city’s outskirts.
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