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  Governments across the region are trying to ensure the war between Hamas and Israel doesn't escalate beyond their control, with its expansion onto other fronts a particular fear. Meanwhile they are trying to assuage the anger many citizens feel towards Israel’s actions in Gaza. GSN analyses the latest phase of the conflict, its impact on the Gulf monarchies and popular responses across the region. The potential for Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ network to destabilise the wider region has been manifest in attacks on bases hosting US troops in Iraq and Syria by IRGC-backed militias. GSN looks into the attacks and analyses the Axis of Resistance’s membership.  Even before the new Middle East war shattered comfortable assumptions about regional security, the global economic climate remained hostile, as shown in analysis of the International Monetary Fund’s new reports on the global outlook and regional economic performance. GSN takes the temperature of oil, growth and other key economic indicators.  China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy has used a routine rotation of its ships based in Djibouti to double its regional presence, just as the US Navy is preparing to deploy its first aircraft carrier strike group to the region for two years. Among articles in Energy and industry, GSN examines QatarEnergy's new long-term agreements with European partners that could complete its order book for gas from North Field expansion projects. There is also a deep dive into Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Juma Al-Maktoum and his Blue Carbon company's deals across Africa. Oman’s economic liberalisation drive has produced a record breaking IPO, covered in one of this issue’s Risk management reports. The other RMR covers Kuwait.

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Sheikh Nasser Bin Abdulrahman Bin Nasser Al-Thani's real estate company Daruna for Real Estate Brokerage Company has been granted permission by the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Civil and Commercial Court to seek higher damages from Lesha Bank (previously known as Qatar First Bank) in a dispute over a failed plan to build workers’ accommodation north of Doha.

Qatar
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Doha's relations with India have soured, after a Qatar court handed down the death sentence to eight Indians arrested in August 2022.

Qatar
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Plans by Saudi Arabia to develop a military cargo aircraft in partnership with Kiev-based Antonov State Company appear to be in trouble, after reports that the Ukrainian state-owned commercial company has suspended its involvement in the project. The AN-132D light transport plane had its maiden flight in April 2017; a demonstration model was on display at the Paris International Air Show and the Dubai Airshow later that year.

Saudi Arabia
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Abu Dhabi International Airport is to be renamed Zayed International Airport, after the UAE’s founding president, the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Ras Al-Khaimah's efforts to raise its international profile – and bring in investment as a result – was underlined by Emir Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al-Qasimi’s prominent role in China, as the UAE’s senior representative at the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshaal Al Ahmed Al Sabah used part of his speech at the opening of parliament late October to express his surprise at the Iraqi Constitutional Court ruling in September which annulled an agreement between Kuwait and Iraq to share the Khor Abdullah waterway. 

Kuwait | Iraq
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The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha, meaning integrity) has released summaries of 21 recent cases, offering an insight into its work, the scale of some corruption cases and its willingness to indict senior officials. 

Saudi Arabia
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The Qatar-headquartered International Union of Muslim Scholars (Iums) has called for urgent military intervention in Gaza. Founded and formerly headed by Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, a senior Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen figure who died in September 2022, Iums is generally regarded as the primary religious authority guiding Hamas.

Qatar | Palestine
Issue 1180 - 07 November 2023

Sudan peace talks held in Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia hosted fresh talks in late October between President General Abdel-Fattah Burhan’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Lieutenant General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (often known as Hemedti).

Saudi Arabia
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In regions across the Middle East and North Africa where popular support for the Palestinian cause is widespread, the UAE has been trying to walk a fine line, maintaining diplomatic ties with Israel while publicly focusing on the provision of humanitarian aid to Gaza and calls for a ceasefire.

Yemen | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | Israel | Palestine
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Houthi spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree said that the Yemeni group's forces had launched ballistic and cruise missiles at Israeli targets in the occupied Palestinian territories. Houthi Political Council member Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti added that the attack had been carried out despite calls from the US, passed on via Omani mediators, for the Houthis not to intervene.

Iran | Israel | Yemen
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Revised November 2023, this map illustrates Saudi oil and gas infrastructure.  The locations of oil and gas fields and pipelines are marked alongside associated infrastructure including oil refineries, gas processing plants, tanker terminals and LNG facilities. An accompanying box displays provincial populations as well as their respective governors.  The map is available as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.

Saudi Arabia
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Kuwait may be heading for a change in government and yet another general election, with a series of political challenges facing the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah – who, GSN understands, is in any case losing interest in the job.

Kuwait
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While the UAE made headlines with a global media onslaught celebrating its mission to Mars, federal Vice President, prime minister and Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MBR) pushed ahead with a plan first suggested in May to overhaul the UAE government’s structure following consultations with the main power centre of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)