ABU SAMRA, QATAR-SAUDI ARABIA BORDER (Reuters) - Qatar's normally bustling desert border with Saudi Arabia was deserted on Monday, with a few dozen frustrated travellers bemoaning a rift between Gulf powers that has frozen movement across Qatar's only land border.
A week after the frontier was shut by the Saudis who accuse Qatar of fomenting regional instability, soldiers in an armoured pick-up truck looked out over a barbed-wire fence at sprawling empty dustland separating Qatar from Saudi Arabia.
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