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Role: Qatar University assistant professor The most prominent of the Father Emir’s daughters with his first wife Sheikha Mariam, Dr Hessa Bint Hamad Al-Thani is assistant professor of education sciences at Qatar University and former dean of the College of Education.

Role: Finance and trade minister 1992-98 and deputy PM 1998-2003 Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al-Thani was born in 1965 and is a younger half-brother of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.

Role: Former prime minister (1996-2007) Born in December 1959, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al-Thani is a younger half-brother of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani. His mother was Rawdha, an elder sister of former Prime Minister and foreign affairs minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr (HBJ).

Role: Finance and petroleum minister 1972-92 Sheikh Abdelaziz Bin Khalifa Bin Hamad Al-Thani is the older half-brother of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad.

Role: Qatar Racing Club chairman Born in September 1986, Khalid is the son of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa with his third wife Sheikha Noora Bint Khalid Al-Thani.

Potential deals in Australia and Rwanda would add to a portfolio that already includes stakes in British Airways, Cathay Pacific and China Southern, and is part of a strategy to boost traffic through Doha’s Hamad International Airport.

Singh was named as a junior minister in the Ministry of External Affairs, with responsibility for Gulf relations as well as overseas Indian affairs – which almost immediately took him to Kuwait following a fire in migrant workers’ accommodation.

The Al-Emarat corvette was handed over at Lorient shipyard in north-western France on 27 June and will join sister ship Bani Yas in the UAE Navy’s fleet.

The final two helicopters from a 30-strong order for the Kuwait Armed Forces and Kuwait National Guard were delivered in late June, some eight years after the contract was signed, while allegations of graft have swirled around the deal in the intervening years.

The government has announced plans to draw up a comprehensive redevelopment for the capital’s old commercial hub, following a large fire in mid-June which destroyed dozens of businesses and left three people dead

Another lesser-known UAE royal has turned up touting business in Africa, with RAK ruling family member Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al-Qassimi signing deals to develop cable manufacturing and smart electricity meter plants in Zimbabwe and an investment agreement in Uganda.

Former health minister Massoud Pezeshkian, the only moderate allowed to run in the snap presidential election on 28 June, topped the ballot and secured a place in a run-off vote against hardliner Saeed Jalili. However, a new record low for turnout shows how disengaged most Iranians have become from the political process

Sayyid Ali Bin Ghalib Al-Said will compete for the first time at the event in France this September and may be joined by his brother Sayyid Loay, who is still working his way through the qualification process

The Bahraini and Kuwaiti governments have set up special committees to review recent naturalisation cases, with hundreds and perhaps thousands of people thought to be at risk of having their citizenship taken from them over allegations of fraudulent applications

The Kuwaiti authorities are said to have come under pressure from Riyadh to support its economic restructuring strategy, including giga-projects such as MBS’ flagship city of Neom, at a time when other sources of inward investment into the kingdom have failed to match Saudi ambitions