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Thailand will re-list cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, its prime minister said on Tuesday, in a stunning U-turn just two years after becoming one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise its recreational use.The moves come despite rapid growth of a domestic retail sector for marijuana, with tens of thousan...

A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported on Wednesday, a further socially liberalising step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom that is home to the holiest sites in Islam.While restricted to non-Muslim diplomats, the store in Riyadh comes as Saudi Arabia’s ...