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Born to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s prominent wife Sheikha Mozah Bint Suhail Bin Awaidha Al-Khaili in 1969, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed died when a microlight aircraft he was learning to fly crashed in Morocco on 26 March 2010.

Born in 1973 to President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s wife Sheikha Mozah Bint Suhail Bin Awaidha Al-Khaili, Sheikh Omar Bin Zayed is one of the lower-profile members of the Bin Zayed brothers.

Sheikh Theyab Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was born in 1971 to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s wife Sheikha Aisha Bint Ali Al-Darmarki (of the Dhawahir tribe).

Sheikh Khalid Bin Zayed is the youngest son of President Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan with his wife Sheikha Mozah Bint Suhail Bin Awaidha Al-Khaili.

Sheikh Falah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was born in 1970, a son of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (who became the UAE’s founding president a year later) and his wife Sheikha Aisha Bint Ali Al-Darmarki (of the Dhawahir tribe).

Baghdad and Ankara signed more than 24 agreements and memoranda of understanding during President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visit to the Iraqi capital. Defence, water and energy issues were to the fore, but there are still some policy mismatches, not least over attitudes to the Kurdish PKK militia group.

Born to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s wife Amina Bint Saleh Al-Darmaki in 1967, Sheikh Nasser Bin Zayed died in June 2008 when travelling in a helicopter which crashed into the Gulf.

Born to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s wife Amina Bint Saleh Al-Darmaki, Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed had a small role in the public works department in the early-mid 2000s.  

Sheikh Saeed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was born in 1965 to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan’s wife Sheikha Aisha Bint Ali Al-Darmarki (of the Dhawahir tribe); six years later, Sheikh Zayed would become the founding president of the UAE.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani travelled to Washington, Houston and Michigan in April, holding talks with US President Joe Biden, major energy and defence companies and members of the Iraqi diaspora.

Buenos Aires is seeking to arrest Ahmad Vahidi over the bombing of a Jewish community centre in which 85 people were killed, after Argentina’s highest court found Iran to blame for the events 30 years ago.

Lana Nusseibeh has stepped down as the UAE’s permanent representative to the Untied Nations, after more than a decade in New York, notably while the UAE filled a seat on the Security Council in 2022/23.

Qatar and the UAE have thrown their weight behind plans to develop a trade route linking Europe and the Gulf via Iraq – a move which suggests Abu Dhabi may be looking more seriously at potential alternatives to the India-Europe trade corridor running through Israel, which it had backed prior to the Gaza war.

Some $35bn worth of potential deals were announced during the Omani leader’s two-day state visit to neighbouring UAE, with the project to develop a rail link between Sohar port and Abu Dhabi now officially up and running – and among measures that could help improve previously sometimes strained relations.

Dubai’s transport sector was badly affected as more than one year’s worth of rain fell in a day across the UAE, leaving a clean-up operation that is likely to be expensive, although the authorities are trying to shield locals from much of the initial cost.