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Ruler Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi has raised the minimum wage for local citizens by 43%, to Dh25,000 ($6,800) from Dh17,500. It follows a Department of Social Services study into Sharjah living standards.

Dubai’s Emirates Group slumped to a Dh22.1bn ($6bn) loss in the year to end-March, its first non-profitable year in over three decades. Group revenues tumbled 66% to Dh35.6bn due to the impact of worldwide travel restrictions and border closures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Former Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasim Bin Jaber Al-Thani (HBJ) had some critical words for Qatar’s neighbours in a series of tweets on 6 June, the day after the fourth anniversary of the start of the boycott by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2017, which only ended in January.

Qatar Olympic Committee president Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani was given the International Swimming Federation (Fina)’s highest honour, the Fina Order, at the organisation’s general congress in Doha on 6 June.

The recently-established North American Camel Ranches Owners Association has thanked International Camel Organisation founder and president Sheikh Fahd Bin Falah Bin Hithlain for his help in setting up the new group. Sheikh Fahd is thought to be a second cousin of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) via MBS’s mother Fahda Bint Falah Al-Hathlain.

Defence minister Prince Khalid Bin Salman (KBS) Bin Abdelaziz was in Washington in early July for an extensive series of meetings with all the key figures from the Biden administration.

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdelaziz (MBS) ordered SR3.74m ($997,000) to be handed out to nearly 200 men and women around the kingdom as a marriage subsidy.

Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Sultan Muhammad Al-Qasimi appointed Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Bin Sultan Al-Qasimi as deputy ruler of the emirate, in emiri decree No 25 of 2021, issued on 9 August.

Ajman Ruler Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al-Nuaimi marked the 40th anniversary of his assumption of power on 6 September. Sheikh Humaid succeeded his father Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al-Nuaimi, who ruled the emirate for 54 years until his death at the age of 79 in 1981. Humaid, who was born in 1933 and educated locally and in Cairo, had been crown prince since 1960.

Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah has been appointed to head Crown Prince Mishaal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s diwan.

Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani’s sister Sheikha Hind took part in the mid-September Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon Championship. Hind wrote in an Instagram post that she had been inspired by seeing an event take place outside her hospital window when her baby daughter was born in June 2011.

UK-registered company Lex Foundation, of which Prince Abdelaziz Bin Nawaf Bin Abdelaziz was recorded as a director for nearly two years, has brought a claim in the Commercial Court in London against Citigroup. Lex Foundation and its current director, British Cypriot national Olgun Halil Shah, claiming Citibank lost €10bn ($11.6bn) transferred from Deutsche Bank to an account at Citi.

Sheikh Rashid Bin Khalifa Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa has been named chair of the newly-formed National Council for the Arts.

Capital Governorate governor Sheikh Hisham Bin Abdulrahman Al-Khalifa has been named Ministry of Interior undersecretary for nationality, passports and residence affairs.

King Salman Bin Abdelaziz remains in the resort town of Neom in the north-west of the kingdom, where he has been ensconced since soon after leaving King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh in late July 2020, following treatment for an inflamed gallbladder.