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Fallout from Saudi/Iran feud

09/01/2016 GMT

Fallout from Saudi-Iran Feud

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Diplomatic tension high between Saudi Arabia and Iran after a Shia cleric was executed

Diplomatic tension high between Saudi Arabia and Iran after a Shia cleric was executed.

Diplomatic tension remains high between Saudi Arabia and Iran after a Shia cleric was executed in Riyadh. Middle Eastern allies of the two nations have been lining up behind the region's two main powers. 

Also, the meaning of "one country, two systems" is put to the test by the mystery disappearance of a Hong Kong bookseller. Why is the Chinese leadership so worried by what happens there? Hitler's Mein Kampf has been published in Germany for the first time since World War Two. We ask whether the country is coming to terms with its past. And, as Beijing's stock market starts the new year with a shudder, what is really shaking China's economy?

(Photo: Iranian women protest at the execution of the shia cleric Sheikh Nimar. Credit: Reuters)

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