A young Saudi man has died more than a week after being injured by regime forces when they raided a district in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the country.

Iranian authorities say government funding for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in current Iranian calendar year which ends in March would amount to $2.4 billion.