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Gulf states splurged on Trump hotel rooms during Qatar blockade ‘lobbying blitz’

INTERNATIONAL Newly released documents reveal the extent of rival Gulf states' spending at Donald Trump's Washington DC hotel as they sought to influence the US president at the height of the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar. The documents are set to raise fresh questions about Trump's dealings with Gulf states, and whether he sought to profit from those relationships, as he announced on Tuesday that he would run again for the […]

today17 November 2022

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Netanyahu’s far-right allies complicate expansion of Abraham Accords

INTERNATIONAL Benjamin Netanyahu promised to expand peace deals with Arab states after being tapped to form a new Israeli government, but he will have to contend with far-right and ultra-zionist allies who could complicate those efforts. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he would work on "further peace deals, peace through strength, peace in exchange for peace, with additional Arab countries - and thus, to a large extent, end the Israeli-Arab conflict”. […]

today16 November 2022

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Dismantling US-Saudi ties could rupture American influence in Gulf, say experts

INTERNATIONAL Following a wave of US outrage against Saudi Arabia for an Opec+ decision to cut oil production, experts and former officials have said that the US-Saudi relationship is too complex to be fully dismantled, and that President Joe Biden should assess the impact on the entire Gulf region before amending policy. Opec+, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, said its decision earlier this month to cut oil production by two million […]

today18 October 2022

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Egypt and Qatar find ‘synergies’ in post-Ukraine Middle East

INTERNATIONAL Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s visit to Qatar is the latest sign of deals winning over ideals as the Middle East grapples with the fallout from the war in Ukraine, fears of a slumping global economy and an uncertain geopolitical future. Ties between Egypt and Qatar have been strained since Sisi rose to power in 2014, following the military’s overthrow of former President Mohamed Morsi. Egypt: Sale of state assets to Saudi and UAE […]

today15 September 2022

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Egypt’s Sisi set to visit Qatar for first time since 2017 Gulf rift

INTERNATIONAL Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will visit Qatar on Tuesday, in his first visit to the country since the 2017 Gulf rift. Sisi is set to stay in Doha for two days, where he will meet with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to discuss a number of regional and international issues, a senior Qatari official told Anadolu Agency. Dissent, fame and vlogs: Qatar's migrant workers find their voices on TikTok Read […]

today12 September 2022

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Public support for normalising ties with Israel declines sharply in Gulf

INTERNATIONAL Public support for the normalisation of ties with Israel has declined sharply in three Gulf states, a survey conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (TWI) has found. The results of the survey, the TWI said, demonstrated that the percentage of those who view the Abraham Accords favourably in Saudi Arabia (KSA), Bahrain and the UAE has dropped. According to TWI, the new survey was compared to polling from […]

today19 July 2022

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Qatar: World Cup accommodation shortage pushes rents through the roof

INTERNATIONAL When it was announced 12 years ago that Qatar would host the 2022 World Cup, residents wondered how a small Gulf emirate would be able to cope with an estimated 1.2 million visitors over the course of five weeks. In the ensuing years, the country embarked on a massive modernisation, construction, and greening project of the otherwise dusty capital, Doha. The total bill for those decade-long efforts has ballooned beyond $229bn, […]

today21 May 2022

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Will the GCC summit resolve the ongoing crisis?

It remains unclear whether the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Kuwait will have any positive effect on the ongoing fractures between Qatar and a number of Gulf states, analysts say, as the regional body gears into a symbolic rather than functional role. The 38th summit approaches amid the backdrop of a six-month blockade on Qatar imposed by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, who have accused […]

today4 December 2017

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Saudi-led group: Qatar not serious about demands

Four Arab nations that have imposed a blockade on Qatar for its alleged support for terrorism have issued a statement saying that Doha's response to their demands to end the crisis was "not serious". Wednesday's statement came after foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — the Arab states involved in the dispute with Qatar — met in Egypt's capital after receiving Doha's response to […]

today6 July 2017

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