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BAE Systems has parted company with former chairman and chief executive Sir Dick Evans just weeks after admitting to compliance failings under his leadership.
The Iraqiya list may have won the most seats according to the preliminary election results. But this does not mean the bloc’s leader, Iyad Allawi, will be the first invited to form a government
Senior United States Department of Defence officials have criticised the defence industry for inadequate quality control on missile defence programmes, saying the administration planned to use more fixed-price contracts.
Canada’s Bombardier could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in future Iraqi contracts if its Supreme Court rules in favour of Kuwait Airways in its long-running dispute with Iraq.
An Islamist parliamentary group has warned the government not to purchase French-made Rafale fighter jets, saying the deal is “suspicious”.
While the Riyadh book fair has attracted attention for all the right reasons, in a lesser-reported event, Saudi security confiscated the books of former literature professor and leading liberal Islamist Abdullah Al-Hamid
Turnout was 62.4% across the country, which was lower than the December 2005 average turnout but still represented a relatively high level of participation compared to global norms. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
Atradius Dutch State Business has highlighted a significant series of claims and payment delays. The Dutch export credit agency has received claims on Saudi Arabia and run into payment delays from Qatar and Bahrain “where risk was written in both cases with the 100% support of the government”, director
The withdrawal of a mysterious Middle Eastern investment fund from a joint venture with Kurdistan-focused exploration company Gulf Keystone Petroleum frees it from an awkward partnership. But the affair leaves the Natural Resources Ministry of Kurdistan looking less than open in its approach to licensing exploration blocks
Freedom of expression is a proud Kuwaiti boast in a region where most countries restrict public debate and media comment. The existence of a powerful and democratically elected parliament is only one facet of a society that can justifiably claim to stand out from its neighbours for the pluralism and vigour of its political culture.
The contracts are signed and the elections over, but the vagaries of post-election government formation mean that international oil companies will have to wait months to know what attitude the next administration will take towards the service contracts that emerged from last year’s two licensing rounds
Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) has revoked Ernst & Young Saudi Arabia Consulting’s securities licence because of “several violations” of the Kingdom’s capital market law and implementing regulations
The Iraq election result was impossible to call throughout the entire campaign, and remained so nearly a fortnight after the poll as the counting process placed Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s State of Law marginally ahead of former prime minister Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiya who briefly led in the middle of the week
Atradius Dutch State Business has highlighted a significant series of claims and payment delays.
