{"id":52788,"date":"2018-08-06T02:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/06\/saudi-arabia-expels-canadian-ambassador-for-urging-release-of-activists\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T02:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T00:47:52","slug":"saudi-arabia-expels-canadian-ambassador-for-urging-release-of-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52788","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador for urging release of activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh halts fresh trade ties and accuses Ottawa of \u2018blatant interference\u2019 in its affairs Saudi Arabia has ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave the country and suspended new trade and investment with Ottawa after Canada\u2019s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists. A statement released by the Saudi Press Agency said the foreign ministry gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave the country and recalled its own ambassador to Canada, adding it retained \u201cits rights to take further action\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/06\/saudi-arabia-expels-canadian-ambassador-for-urging-release-of-activists\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador for urging release of activists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh halts fresh trade ties and accuses Ottawa of \u2018blatant interference\u2019 in its affairs Saudi Arabia has ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave the country and suspended new trade and investment with Ottawa after Canada\u2019s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists. A statement released by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}