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A 40-bedroom Regent’s Park property was put up for sale in 2023 for £250m, after being repossessed when Khalid Bin Sultan defaulted on a £160m loan. It has now been sold for £139m to an unnamed buyer.

A string of marriages and engagements involving Al-Saud family members were announced in late 2024 and early 2025.

Zain has been chasing a debt now standing at $877m against Prince Hussam Bin Saud Bin Abdelaziz since 2015, but the Kuwaiti telecoms company’s bankruptcy petition against the Al-Baha governor has been ruled out by London’s Chief Insolvency and Companies Court, which said it had now jurisdiction over the case.

Late King Fahd’s son Prince Mohammed had some of the most wide-ranging and controversial business interests of any Al-Saud, starting in the oil boom days of the 1970s.

Prince Abdelaziz Bin Mishaal had a wide-ranging business career, managing family assets held in Al-Shoula Group among a portfolio of interests.

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishaal and Qatar Foundation chief executive Sheikha Hind met the British monarch at the headquarters of his King’s Foundation charity in January – continuing Charles’ long, but not always easy, relationship with Gulf charities.

Emir Sheikh Tamim watched Sheikha Mariam Bint Mishaal graduate from Al-Zaeem Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Attiyah Air College – one of four graduation ceremonies at state security and military colleges the Qatari ruler attended from 20-23 January.

A government-to-government deal between Doha and Jakarta has committed Sheikh Abdelaziz Bin Abdulrahman’s Qilaa International to building up to 1m affordable housing units in Indonesia – where Abu Dhabi has also been linked to a possible investment in President Subianto’s plans to build 3m homes a year.

The Gulf’s younger rulers have become more experienced in managing their polities and more pragmatic in delivering big ambitions, as they balance domestic and international relationships and interests. To better understand their actions in 2025 and beyond, GSN takes a deeper dive into the ruling philosophies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

A special ministerial court has given former interior and defence minister Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled a 14-year jail term, a $65m fine and ordered him to repay $32m embezzled from the ministries he headed up between 2022 and 2024.

Few doubt the UAE has successfully reinforced its position as a major global business and leisure hub by introducing ever more regulations and institutions to provide an accommodating investment climate. Abu Dhabi once left it to commercial hub Dubai to attract foreign attention, but the wealthy emirate is now more assertive on the business front, while also building up its military strength and regional power projection under President Mohammed Bin Zayed and his Bani Fatima brothers.

A lower court’s verdict has been endorsed by the Court of Cassation, sentencing Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah to death for the murder of Abdelaziz Al-Zaatari.

SBI Holdings has signed a series of deals with Saudi companies, including Prince Fahd’s Evision and PIF’s Savvy Games, as the Japanese investor steadily steps up its engagement with the kingdom.

Mohammed Bin Zayed has appointed Major General Ahmed Saif Al-Muhairi as commander-in-chief of Abu Dhabi Police, on the same day that Crown Prince Khalid Bin Mohammed named another Al-Nahyan family member as the force’s new director-general.

The Higher Authority for Hawar Islands Development replaces a committee set up in 2017 to develop tourism infrastructure on the island – which was previously the subject of a territorial dispute with Qatar. It comes as the islands’ first major hotel development is due to welcome its first guests.