The Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat was blocked from distribution by the Syrian authorities, Local Daily Star reported Friday.
"The censorship authorities at the information ministry in Damascus asked Al-Hayat's bureau in the Syrian capital Monday to stop sending its issues to the country until further notice" the paper's Beirut Chief Bureau Zuhair Qusaybati said.
The daily is based in London and printed in Beirut, Cairo and Riyadh, the issues distribution in Damascus come from Lebanon via land transportation.
Relations between Damascus and Riyadh have been tense since the assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005, Hariri was a close ally to Saudi Arabia and Syria was blamed for the bombing.
Al-Hayat has been recently publishing a number of intimidating reports on the Syrian attempts to interfere in north Lebanon to crack dawn Sunni fundamentalists, and have quoted U.S. officials as sending warnings to Syria.
Source: Xinhua
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