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Issue 862 - 10 October 2009

HASSAN BIN ALI Lacroix bid

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Ajman businessman Sheikh Hassan Bin Ali Al-Nuaimi is said to be close to buying loss-making French fashion house Christian Lacroix

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Finance minister Anas Al-Saleh has denied accusations that KD3.8bn ($12.6bn) in public funds have gone missing. Members of parliament, including serial griller Awdah Al-Awdah have claimed the government spent the money without providing any records about its use. They have threatened to grill prime minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah when the next parliamentary term starts in October unless the issue is cleared up. Speaking to journalists after meeting MPs on 12 July, Al-Saleh called the allegations “baseless and untrue”. However, he acknowledged his ministry was making “ongoing efforts” to improve accounting procedures.

Kuwait
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Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has signed three contracts with local firms worth a total of $35m covering the supply and servicing of compressors, part of efforts to boost the local oil and gas industry. Bin Salim Enterprises picked up two contracts and the third was signed with PipeLine Supply Company. PDO says that 38% of all its contracts are now placed with local businesses.

Oman
Issue 976 - 05 September 2014

UAE: Oil for Egypt

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The UAE has agreed to provide Egypt with around $9bn in oil products in the year from 1 September, the Egyptian oil ministry said on 31 August. An Egyptian official told Reuters that some of the products would come as grants, and the rest under a credit agreement to be repaid in instalments. The UAE has been one of Egypt’s main financial and political backers since the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi. The two countries have recently been accused of co-operating on a series of airstrikes in Libya.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Being a small country surrounded by larger feuding neighbours is never a comfortable place to be. Bahrain has been working hard to build a stronger relationship with US President Donald Trump, both as part of its alignment with Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, but also on its own account, reinforcing wider alliances as a bolster against a resurgent Iran across the Gulf and with a restive majority Shia population at home.

Bahrain
Issue 1044 - 22 September 2017

Bahrain: New chief for NSA

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King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa appointed Lieutenant General Adel Bin Khalifa Al-Fadhel as president of the National Security Agency (NSA) in a royal decree issued on 12 September. The NSA has played a crucial role in the suppression of protests since 2011 and has been accused of torturing detainees by local human rights groups.

Bahrain
Issue 907 - 03 September 2011

Sandhurst Passing out

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The Sovereign’s Parade at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was held on 12 August. There were several overseas cadets who passed out with a view to being commissioned into the armed forces of their countries

Issue 850 - 27 March 2009

Manama unrest

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The mood in Bahrain was edgy in the run-up to the 26 March trial of 35 individuals including Haq leader Hassan Mushaima,

Bahrain
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Omani acting undersecretary for diplomatic affairs Mohammed Bin Awadh Al-Hassan led a delegation to Tehran on 22 October to take part in the sixth session of the Iran-Oman strategic consultation committee. The following day he held talks with foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. There were no major new developments or agreements, but the meetings highlighted Oman’s continued willingness to talk to all sides in the region, even under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and as fresh sanctions are due to be imposed on Iran by the United States.

Oman
Issue 1045 - 06 October 2017

MBS: Fallon meeting

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Crown Prince and defence minister Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) met British defence secretary Michael Fallon in mid-September in Jeddah. They signed a framework agreement on military and security co-operation at a meeting attended on the Saudi side by assistant defence minister Mohammed Al-Ayash, the head of MBS’s office Fahd Al-Issa and deputy chief of general staff Fayyad Al-Ruwaili. In other Saudi-British meetings, ambassador to the US Prince Khalid Bin Salman met British foreign secretary Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Saudi Arabia
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The Royal Bahraini Air Force has received approval from the State Department in Washington to buy an estimated $45m worth of general purpose and penetrator warhead bomb bodies for its fleet of 20 F-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft. The deal, announced on 18 May, covers 3,200 bomb bodies, along with spare parts, training and related services. The munitions will be provided by the United States government from its existing stocks. It is the second recent significant purchase of armaments from the US, following a $911m deal for attack helicopters.

Bahrain
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Public tensions have died down following reports of a skirmish between Emirati and Saudi vessels that was blamed on a dispute over the route of the Dolphin pipeline which brings Qatari gas to the UAE

Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | Qatar
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Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan visited injured Emirati and Sudanese soldiers, wounded in the Yemen campaign, at the Zayed Military Hospital in the first week of May. Another UAE serviceman, Hassan Al-Bishir from Ras Al-Khaimah, was killed in the conflict in early May.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue 860 - 12 September 2009

Emir and crown prince hold meetings

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As well as apparently playing a part in arranging the release of Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali Mohammed Al-Megrahi, Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani held talks with visiting Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who also visited the UAE.

Qatar
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It should come as no surprise that Sudan’s internationally wanted President Omar Al Bashir visited Qatar and Saudi Arabia in early March, where he was welcomed with an open disregard for the arrest warrant issued for him by the International Criminal Court (which the United Nations has urged even non-signatory countries to co-operate with).

Saudi Arabia | Qatar