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AMMAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sabih al-Masri, Jordan's most influential businessman and the chairman of its largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday.

VIENNA - Austria is set to become the only western European country with the far right in government after the anti-immigration Freedom Party and Sebastian Kurz's conservatives strike a coalition deal. (AUSTRIA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 4, PIX, TV), expect by 1700 GMT/12 PM ET, by Kirsti Knolle and Shadia Nasralla, 770 words)

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NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Metlife Inc failed to pay pensions to potentially tens of thousands of people and will have to strengthen its reserves because of the costs of finding and repaying them, the New York insurer said.

AMMAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sabih al-Masri, Jordan's most influential businessman and the chairman of its largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday.

VIENNA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Insurance executive Hartwig Loeger will be Austria's next finance minister, conservative leader Sebastian Kurz said on Saturday, as he presented his party's ministers.

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AMMAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sabih al-Masri, a Palestinian billionaire and the chairman of Jordan's largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday.