You can now buy booze in Saudi Arabia, reports CNBC, at the nation’s first liquor store—so long as you’re in a certain line of work. Alcohol has been banned since 1952 in the putatively religious country, and it remains so for citizens of it: the alcohol shop is exclusively a convenience for non-Muslim diplomats. — Read the rest
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