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  Saudi Arabia cancels Crown Prince's Pakistan visit before India trip due to 'unspecified reasons'

  World | September 01, 2023 12:32 IST

  The visit was earlier apprehended as an act of balancing by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman amid the fact Pakistan is currently being led by an interim government that doesn't have the authority to make major decisions until the general elections.

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  Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution

  World | March 12, 2022 21:52 IST

  The executions carried out surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom and Islam's holiest site.

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  Arrest of royals in Saudi Arabia: What we know so far

  World | March 09, 2020 16:29 IST

  Two people close to the royal family said on Saturday that the two princes were under arrest for not supporting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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  Saudis arrest 2 princes for allegedly plotting coup

  World | March 07, 2020 8:12 IST

  Saudi officials arrested two members of the royal family early Friday for allegedly plotting to oust King Salman and the son he has designated to succeed him, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Wall Street Journal reported.  

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  PM Modi wishes speedy recovery of Saudi King

  Politics | January 18, 2015 6:20 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday spoke to Saudi Crown Prince Salman and conveyed his best wishes for the speedy recovery of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.An official statement here said that Modi

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  Bahrainis Pour Into Protest Square, F1Grand Prix Cancelled

  World | February 22, 2011 12:40 IST

  Manama, Feb 22 :  Protesters on Monday  escalated calls for an end to the Sunni Al-Khalifa dynasty in Bahrain as political turmoil sweeping the Gulf kingdom forced the cancellation of the season-opening F1 Grand Prix