A saga involving an alleged British spy arrested in the United Arab Emirates is threatening to derail a decades-long friendship between the Middle Eastern country and the United Kingdom.
And the diplomatic tiff is coming at a particularly sensitive time for the UK, which will need its friends as it inches closer to Brexit.
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