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05/11/2017 GMT

Anti-Corruption  Purge in Saudi Arabia

BBC World Service - Weekend, Anti-Corruption  Purge in Saudi Arabia

Dozens of Saudi officials detained; Tito's bunker; Myanmar's budding music scene

Eleven royal princes and dozens of former government ministers have been detained in Saudi Arabia in an apparent anti-corruption purge led by the Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman; Tito's Cold War nuclear bunker in the Balkans; Myanmar's budding music scene.

(Image: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Credit: Getty Images)

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