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Saudis hold protests over Sheikh Nimr's execution

Saturday, 09 January 2016 12:10 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 09 January 2016 12:11 AM ]

People in the cities of Awamiyah and Qatif have rallied to honor the top cleric who was executed by the Saudi regime.

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People in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province have rallied to honor the top cleric who was executed by the Saudi regime. Protesters in the cities of Awamiyah and Qatif held placards of Sheikh Nimr and three other executed Shia activists and chanted slogans against Al Saud dynasty.
Protesters have staged a rally in the German city of Frankfurt to condemn Saudi Arabia’s execution of Sheikh Nimr al Nimr. The protesters who gathered outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate also chanted anti-Riyadh slogans. They denounced Saudi Arabia’s zero tolerance for dissent.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns that the use of cluster bombs in Yemen may amount to war crime. This, after the UN rights office in Yemen and Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia and its allies have used the banned weapons in the country.
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man in Haifa District who launched a shooting attack on Israelis in Tel Aviv last Friday. Israeli troops have also injured a number of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.
In Egypt, armed men have attacked a hotel in the town of Hurghada, wounding at least three foreign tourists. Security forces have repelled the assault and killed one of the assailants. Egyptian authorities say the assailants arrived in the country by sea.
US President Barack Obama has vetoed a congressional bill which would have repealed his health care law. President Obama has defended his move. Republicans, however, have pledged to put the issue to vote and scrap Obamacare if a Republican wins November's presidential election.
US police say the man who shot and wounded an officer in Philadelphia overnight claims to have carried out the attack in the name of Daesh. The 30 year old shooter who has been arrested fired about 11 shots through the window of the officer’s car.
Mexican authorities have captured fugitive drug lord Joaquin Guzman known as El Chapo six months after his prison break. The news was announced on President Enrique Pena Nieto’s twitter page and confirmed by a presidential spokesman. Guzman fled a maximum-security prison in central Mexico in July 2015.

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