The match between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was in Jeddah on 11 October

<b>The match between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was in Jeddah on 11 October</b><br /> <b>Saudi Arabia says it has thwarted a plan to bomb an international football match in the western city of Jeddah.</b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLE2gro127xYgiQ8q5ZS68rTt4EU-lbk-WKt1QBCAyRYC-UTsiJ49BhfmCG4j2ircq9RsTNAGtPFLO5z-CeZ32cv9rUMCEpF1gKyQEkJhtz-xky31FU1H7bQiL4_Uw0z-wgFLbPhmeTIq-/s1600/saudi-busts-cell-targeting-world-cup-football-match.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLE2gro127xYgiQ8q5ZS68rTt4EU-lbk-WKt1QBCAyRYC-UTsiJ49BhfmCG4j2ircq9RsTNAGtPFLO5z-CeZ32cv9rUMCEpF1gKyQEkJhtz-xky31FU1H7bQiL4_Uw0z-wgFLbPhmeTIq-/s400/saudi-busts-cell-targeting-world-cup-football-match.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <b><br /></b> Militants had plotted to car-bomb a World Cup 2018 qualifying game between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in October, it says.<br /> The authorities also say they have foiled a second plot directed by Islamic State (IS) militants to kill security officials near Riyadh.<br /> Eight suspects have been arrested from two "terrorist cells", offficials say.<br /> Among them are Saudi nationals, two Pakistanis, a Syrian and a Sudanese, the Saudi interior ministry says.<br /> It has also published a list of several more suspects wanted for their alleged involvement in planning attacks in the eastern cities of Qatif and Dammam.<br /> Saudi Arabia has been the target of attacks by IS over the past two years.<br /> In July, a suicide bomber killed four security officers and injured five others near one of Islam's holiest sites, in the city of Medina.<br /> In June, the interior ministry said there had been 26 "terror attacks" in the kingdom during that month.

The match between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was in Jeddah on 11 October

The match between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was in Jeddah on 11 October Saudi Arabia says it has thwarted a plan to bomb an...

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Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides

In the years before Hillary Clinton announced she would run again for president, her top aides expressed profound concerns in internal emails about how foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s own moneymaking ventures would affect Mrs. Clinton’s political future.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmg-UDxnCxCJLF4LZ8c30ZDK0CdYhyphenhyphenz3LlLSBynFCGFfBGOpjdDHgl39yCHV5QG6dJWdUijaNFt_nwFqL1EDEzIT1D-RnNjBE_pqPHo3E93Ip_MzLLgtSrLbXIz_5XAx5slD4WhK2VLKv/s1600/co+gai+thang+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmg-UDxnCxCJLF4LZ8c30ZDK0CdYhyphenhyphenz3LlLSBynFCGFfBGOpjdDHgl39yCHV5QG6dJWdUijaNFt_nwFqL1EDEzIT1D-RnNjBE_pqPHo3E93Ip_MzLLgtSrLbXIz_5XAx5slD4WhK2VLKv/s400/co+gai+thang+5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The emails, obtained by hackers and being gradually released by WikiLeaks this month, also are revealing how efforts to minimize potential conflicts at the foundation led to power struggles and infighting among aides and Mrs. Clinton’s family.<br /> One top aide to Mr. Clinton, Douglas J. Band, noted in an email that the former president had received personal income from some foundation donors and “gets many expensive gifts from them.”<br /> Chelsea Clinton accused her father’s aides of taking “significant sums of money from my parents personally,” of “hustling” during foundation events to win clients for their own business, and of even installing spyware on her chief of staff’s computer.<br /> Hillary Clinton, another email showed, had promised to attend a Clinton Foundation gathering in Morocco at the behest of its king, who had pledged $12 million to the charity. Her advisers worried that would look unseemly just as she was beginning her presidential campaign in earnest.<br /> “She created this mess and she knows it,” a close aide, Huma Abedin, wrote of Mrs. Clinton in a January 2015 email.<br /> For months, the Clintons have defended their foundation, making public proclamations that it went above and beyond what the law required in terms of transparency while Mrs. Clinton was at the State Department.<br /> The emails, which came from the account of John D. Podesta, who had a leadership role at the foundation and is now Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, have not contained evidence to support Republican contentions that Mrs. Clinton performed any favors for foundation donors.

Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides

In the years before Hillary Clinton announced she would run again for president, her top aides expressed profound concerns in internal email...

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