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...The kingdom shares a border with the Jewish state and is the custodian of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which necessitates regular co-operation with Israeli authorities....
...Ali Sharif al-Emadi, the country’s finance minister, said the $320bn Qatar Investment Authority’s “main focus” would be on its international investments as it used the market volatility and plunging asset...
...The public prosecutor has opened an investigation into allegations of embezzlement by Ali Sharif al-Emadi, according to a statement carried by the state news agency....
...In his absence, his brother Shahbaz Sharif and daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif have reportedly clashed over their vision for the party....
...Quintet Private Bank, a Luxembourg-headquartered bank owned by the Al-Thani family of Qatar, has recruited Eli Leenaars as chief operating officer effective June 1....
...Ali captioned the Instagram story: “One big happy family.” The older Makhlouf was first placed under sanctions in 2008....
...Daniyal Aziz, a senior leader of the PML-N who has publicly defended Mr Sharif and his family in the past few months, said: “The whole thing is a total joke. It’s based on assumptions and conjectures....
...“Some people are hiding behind constitutional institutions [like the Supreme Court] and working on a minus-Nawaz formula,” said Abid Sher Ali, the water and power minister and a relative of Mr Sharif....
...The situation is exacerbated by the threat posed by al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group with ties to al-Qaeda, which controls some of the worst-affected areas....
...Members of an Afghan guard of honour greet each other after offering Eid-al-Adha prayers at the Hazrat-i- Ali shrine in Mazar-i Sharif in Afghanistan...
...King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Prince Mohammed’s father, was one of the first leaders contacted by Mr Trump after his inauguration. “Both Washington and Riyadh hope this reset can benefit them....
...The agreement between Saudi Aramco and Petronas was signed on the second day of a visit by Saudi ruler King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud to Malaysia, who is on a multi-nation tour of the region....
...“The last big project will be completed 12 to 18 months ahead of the World Cup,” said Ali Sharif al-Emadi, the finance minister. “We don’t want to be painting while people arrive in the country.”...
...Sartaj Aziz, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s adviser on foreign affairs, told a visiting group of senior US officials on June 10 that any such attacks in the future would be detrimental to the relationship...
...“If funding is arranged, Pakistan will get the F16,” said Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs adviser to Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani prime minister. “Otherwise, we will opt for jets from some other place.”...
...The main opposition candidate for president, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad of the Civic United Front, declared himself the winner....
...It then plunged after the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi led a landmark decision by Opec, the producers’ cartel, in November 2014 not to cut crude output to support prices....
...The central bank announced last year it had called for criminal prosecution of 1MDB, only to be overruled by Mohamed Apandi Ali, the new attorney-general....
...But the kingdom says it will continue to use its air power to check the advance of Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh....
...has remained central to the US-backed global campaign against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants....
...but do not regard Mr Hadi, who was made transition president in 2012, as the legitimate leader of a country that has slid further into chaos since the Arab spring unrest of 2011 ousted former president, Ali...
...Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, United Arab Emirates foreign minister, this week said the coalition was considering a ground campaign to achieve its objectives of restoring “legitimacy”....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Ali al-Naimi, Saudi oil minister, said: “The lack of co-operation from other producers outside Opec and the spread of misleading information and speculation led to the continuation of the drop in prices....
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