Today In World News: November 9, 2017

Today In World News:

Courtesy of Newsweek

• Saudi Arabia has advised its citizens not to travel to Lebanon and asked those who are in the country to leave as soon as possible.

• Saudi Arabian authorities have made further arrests and frozen more bank accounts in an expanding anti-corruption crackdown on the kingdom’s political and business elite.  They face allegations of money laundering, bribery, extortion and exploiting public office for personal gain.

• A United Arab Emirates plan to attack Qatar's financial system has been revealed in a folder of an email account belonging to the UAE ambassador to the US, Yousef al-Otaiba.

• A Baltimore police officer has been found not guilty of nearly two dozen administrative charges related to the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.

• GOP senators called for the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama to step down if a story containing sexual allegations against him is true.

• President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that a recent flurry of Russian sports doping allegations could be an American attempt to interfere in next year’s Russian presidential election.

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested at least 30 dual nationals during the past two years, mostly on spying charges, according to lawyers, diplomats and relatives, twice as many as earlier reported by local or international media.

• Far-right websites and conspiracy theorists have promoted conspiracy theories alleging the mass shooting suspect was an anti-fascist activist in the wake of a deadly attack that left 26 people dead in a Texas church.

• Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister on Saturday while in Saudi Arabia, is being held by Riyadh, and Beirut plans to work with foreign states to secure his return.

• British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit. 

• Syria’s army declared victory over Islamic State, saying its capture of the jihadists’ last town in the country marked the collapse of their project in the region.

• The Trump administration tightened travel and commercial ties to Cuba, part of its effort to roll back former President Barack Obama’s historic opening with Havana. 

• A political activist who founded an Arab nationalist group seeking an independent state inside Iran was shot dead in the Netherlands. Ahmad Mola Nissi, 52, established the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA), which seeks a separate state in the country’s oil-rich southwestern Khuzestan province.

• President Donald Trump sought to present a united front with Chinese President Xi Jinping following two days of meetings, despite lingering differences over trade and North Korea.

• More than 6 weeks after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are still waiting for help from  the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).