This weekend's killings of foreign oil workers in Saudi Arabia has brought energy prices and Middle Eastern politics to the front pages of most papers still today.
The FT says the big fear in that country now is the roughly 70,000 US and UK expats living there will leave – if only because they are being encouraged to do so by the US government, unlike the UK government which is telling people to stay put. Foreign armed forces have long been a target in Saudi – witness the killings of US airmen in the past couple of years through bombings of barracks – but the newest violence marks a change to targetting mass killings of civilian contractors to the giant Saudi Aramco oil company, the paper adds. The Times says there are growing suspicions a deal ...
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