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Saudi official: Would cancel F1 if genuine threat
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's minister of sport, Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al-Faisal, said his country would not have hesitated in cancelling this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix if it felt there was a genuine security threat to the event. Formula One's 20 drivers came close to boycotting the race in the early hours of Saturday morning after a missile attack on an oil depot 10 kilometers east of the circuit raised concerns about security at the venue. A military spokesperson for Yemen's Houthis, which have been battling a coalition led by Saudi Arabia for seven years, claimed responsibility for the attack on the facility, which is run by state-owned energy company Aramco. On...
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