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| Saudi Arabia says 47 executed on terrorism charges, including Shi'ite cleric | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric alongside dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday signalling intolerance of jihadism and minority Shi'ite Muslim violence and stirring a rise in sectarian tensions across the region. Most of the 47 executed were convicted of al Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia a decade ago, but four, including prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr, were Shi'ite Muslims accused of shooting policemen during anti-government protests in recent years. The executions took place in 12 cities in Saudi Arabia, four prisons using firing squads and the others beheading.
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| Lebanese Shi'ite council condemns Saudi execution of prominent cleric | |  Lebanon's Supreme Islamic Shi'ite Council condemned the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying it was a "grave mistake". "The execution of Sheikh Nimr was an execution of reason, moderation and dialogue," the council's Vice President Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan said in a statement. Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other people.
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| Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of supporting terrorism after Nimr execution | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman accused Saudi Arabia on Saturday of supporting terrorism and executing its opponents, after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric. "The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri (radical Sunni) extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. (Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Catherine Evans) |
| Gunmen attack Indian air base in Pathankot, 6 dead | |  By Mukesh Gupta PATHANKOT, India (Reuters) - Four gunmen and two guards were killed when unidentified militants attacked an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, Punjab near the Pakistan border on Saturday in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Officials said the gunmen, wearing army fatigues, managed to enter the Pathankot air base Punjab before dawn on Saturday.
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| Iranian cleric says Nimr execution will bring down Saudi government | |  A prominent cleric with close links to Iran's ruling establishment denounced the execution on Saturday of a Saudi Shi'ite cleric and predicted the repercussions would bring down the Saudi ruling family. Saudi Arabia executed 47 people for terrorism including Nimr al-Nimr, whom the government accuses of inciting violence among the Shi'ite minority, and at least three other Shi'ites. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, one of the most senior clerics in Shi'ite-ruled Iran, said in an interview with the Mehr news agency that Nimr's execution reflected the "criminal" nature of the Saudi ruling family.
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| Next parliament session can break tax deadlock: Arun Jaitley | |  Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday the upcoming budget session of parliament would be crucial for the passage of the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) that has been blocked in two successive sessions. The GST reform is long overdue and should have come much earlier, Jaitley told an event in New Delhi according to the finance ministry's Twitter feed. The reform needs a two-thirds majority to amend the constitution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist coalition lacks the votes it needs in the upper house of parliament.
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| Suicide bomber kills three in Somali capital, police say | | | By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said. The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a suicide vest, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, police said. "So far, three civilians are dead," Major Nur Ali, a senior police officer, told Reuters. This the third time suicide bombers have attacked the restaurant, which is opposite Somalia's National Theater. (Editing by Edith Honan, editing by Larry King) |
| Cars torched outside U.S. consulate in Tijuana -FBI | | | (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mexican authorities are investigating who started a fire outside the U.S. consulate in Tijuana that destroyed four cars, a U.S. official said on Friday. The U.S. consulate in Tijuana, located across the border from San Diego, is one of the busiest in Mexico. A U.S. consulate worker in the border city of Juarez was killed by drug gang gunmen in 2010. |
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