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From a Saudi student’s 34-year sentence to carbon credits and crypto – Here’s your August 19 news briefing
To start off, we’re looking into:
Saudi student receives 34-year sentence for tweets
Over the past five years, there’s been a crackdown on dissent in Saudi Arabia under its current leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Although there have been certain progressive advances under MBS (like granting women