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One of the younger – and low profile – sons of Crown Prince Salman has married a daughter of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalid Al-Majfal in Riyadh. Saud is one of Salman’s sons with his second wife Fahda Al-Hithlain; his full brother is Mohammed, recently appointed head of his father’s court.

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Following his early July meeting in Doha with Tunisian interior minister Ali Laarayedh (GSN 927/7), heir apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad has visited Tunisia for two days of talks.

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Sharjah-born Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Thani has become the first Qatari to climb Mount Everest. Part of a team called ‘Arabs with Altitude’, Sheikh Mohammed was accompanied by the first Palestinian to summit Everest, Raed Zidan, and the first Saudi woman and youngest Arab to do so, 25-year-old Raha Muharrak. He was raising money for Qatar’s Reach out to Asia charity, which is chaired by Emir Sheikh Hamad’s daughter Sheikha Mayassa.

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Sheikh Khalid Bin Sultan Al-Qasimi, son of Sharjah Ruler Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, was found dead in his apartment in London on 1 July, aged 39. No cause of death was announced.An official three-day mourning period was announced. Funeral prayers were held at King Faisal mosque in Sharjah on the morning of 3 July, led by Sheikh Sultan. Sheikh Khalid’s body was then laid to rest in Jubail cemetery.

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Minister of defence Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdelaziz gathered senior military officers at his office on 6 July, two days after an attack on a border post in Najran killed several members of the security forces and five attackers (see page 6). It was an opportunity for the chief of general staff General Abdulrahman Bin Saleh Al-Bunyan to stress that “everyone is ready to defend the homeland and implement the royal directives.

Saudi Arabia
Issue 1023 - 07 October 2016

Kuwait: Emir returns home

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Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah returned to Kuwait on 30 September from the United States, where he had attended the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, held on the margins of the UN General Assembly. The emir had been in the US since 12 September. He was accompanied home by his brother, National Guard deputy chief Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber. A very large group of dignitaries turned out to welcome him home.

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A remote farm in the Scottish borders is set to become a falcon breeding and training centre for the Qatari ruling family. According to BBC Scotland, planners have given the go-ahead for the development by Sheikh Ali Bin Abdullah Bin Jassim Al-Thani at Weensmuir Farm

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Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa was admitted to hospital on 11 October for what were described as “successful medical check-ups,” prompting a wave of congratulatory cables from cabinet ministers including recently appointed electricity and water affairs minister Wael Bin Nasser Al-Mubarak and education minister Majid Bin Ali Al-Nuaimi as well as diplomats such as Oman’s ambassador to Bahrain Abdulla Bin Rashid Al-Medelwi and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s special envoy to the Gulf Co-operation Council countries Amable Aguiluz.

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The Four Seasons Toronto, owned by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), has been put on the market with a price tag of $156-195m, according to media reports. The hotel is owned by KHC and Cascade Investment, owned by Bill Gates. In early June, the billionaire prince became the first Arab to take the ‘Giving Pledge’, an initiative set up in 2010 by Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren Buffet to encourage the world’s wealthiest families to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

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It is Houbara bustard hunting season, and the Pakistani government has made its annual announcement of which lucky Gulfis will get licences. Each year, the federal government hands out licences to favoured Gulf sheikhs, many of whom have held the same permit area for years, or inherited it from another family member.

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Issue 1012 - 01 April 2016

King Salman: Congressional audience

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King Salman Bin Abdelaziz on 21 March received a US congressional delegation headed by Senator Benjamin Cardin (Democrat-Maryland). Other members included Senators Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts), Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Cory Gardner (Republican-Colorado). This comes ahead of President Barack Obama’s planned visit to the kingdom in April (see Politics). The royal audience was attended by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, state minister Musaid Al-Aiban, culture minister Adel Altoraifi, foreign affairs and minister Adel Al-Jubair. Defence minister and second deputy premier Prince Mohammed Bin Salman separately met with the delegation.

Saudi Arabia
Issue 965 - 06 March 2014

UAE: MBZ in Tokyo

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Hot on the heels of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ) and a high-ranking delegation undertook a two-day official visit to Japan on 25-26 February, meeting Emperor Akihito, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a number of other senior officials. He was greeted at Tokyo’s Haneda airport by Crown Prince Naruhito. While in Japan, he also met the Japanese minister of economy, trade and industry Toshimitsu Motegi. MBZ’s delegation included the chief of his court, Sheikh Hamed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue 861 - 26 September 2009

Ghaya Bint Sultan Death

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Ras Al-Khaimah ruler’s court in mid-September announced the death of Sheikha Ghaya Bint Sultan Bin Salem Al-Qasimi

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue 933 - 12 October 2012

Al-Sultan sell up in Morocco

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The family of the late Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdelaziz are selling palaces and other assets in Morocco, as they resolve inheritance issues and reorient the Al-Sultan’s interests. Prince Sultan spent long periods in his Agadir palace before his death on 22 October 2011

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Interior minister Prince Abdelaziz Bin Saud Bin Naif Al-Saud has been on a short tour of south-east Asian nations. He arrived in Malaysia on 13 March and held talks with defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein, interior minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and foreign affairs minister Anifah Aman the following day. On 15 March he met Prime Minister Mohammed Najib Tun Abdul Razzaq and House of Representatives speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia.

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