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...Ibrahim was a chemist, and Ahmed, an avid traveller and law student....
...Significant changes included the appointment of Musaad al-Aiban as national security adviser, a move that revived a previously dormant post, and the naming of former finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf as...
...When Ibrahim al-Assaf was detained at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s extraordinary anti-corruption crackdown, many believed it marked an ignominious end to a long career...
...Among the detainees are two of King Salman’s nephews: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the multibillionaire tycoon, and Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, overlord of Saudi Arabia’s powerful National Guard....
...equally powerful cousin: Miteb bin Abdullah....
...Reuters quoted an unnamed senior Saudi official confirming the arrest of Prince Alwaleed and Ibrahim al-Assaf, a former finance minister....
...Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was replaced as Treasury chief last year, will represent King Salman bin Abdulaziz, a German foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed, rather than the newly appointed crown prince, Mohammed...
...There is also a surprise mention of a former Finance Minister, Ibrahim Al-Assaf, who was on the board of Saudi Aramco, who's reportedly been taken into detention....
...The dismissal of veteran Saudi Arabian finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf has removed the last remnant of the former king’s economic management team as the kingdom pushes ahead with sensitive economic reforms...
...Indeed, so confident are the Taliban that on August 30 they appointed a new military chief, Mullah Ibrahim Sadar — a close ally of the deceased Taliban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar — even as they take more...
...In the news Saudi fires its finance minister Saudi Arabia’s long-serving finance minister, Ibrahim al-Assaf, has been replaced, removing the last remnant of the late King Abdullah’s economic management...
...Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31 A French national living in Belgium who blew himself up on Boulevard Voltaire outside the Comptoir Voltaire café....
...For the time being, work continues unabated on the King Abdullah Financial District, and most of Riyadh’s other megaprojects....
...Other key portfolios remain unchanged, including Ali al-Naimi, oil minister, finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf, and Saud al-Faisal in the foreign ministry....
...They include Muktar Said Ibrahim, a member of the cell behind attempted bombings two weeks after the July 7 2005 attacks in London....
...Real name: Ibrahim al-Badri al-Samarrai Haji Bakr Nom de guerre: ’Knight of the Silencers’. Real name: Sameer Abid Mohammed al-Halefawi....
...“I am old enough to have been around in the 1980s, when oil prices were very low and we had to resort to heavy borrowing to keep our economy going,” said Mohammed al-Jasser, economy and planning minister...
...In a statement on the website of the United Arab Emirates on Monday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum said he had appointed Abdullah Mohammed Saleh, currently chairman of the Dubai Financial Services...
...But they stuck to their assertion that Ibrahim al-Asiri, a suspected leading bomb-maker for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, had not in fact been killed....
...In August 2009 a bomb hidden in the body of Mr Asiri’s 23-year-old brother narrowly failed to kill Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi intelligence chief....
...Reuters reports: “You saw that place (Sirte airport),” Mussa Ibrahim [a government spokesman] told a news conference. “It’s a civilian airport. It was bombarded and many people were killed....
...Mr Karzai signalled his intention to replace Muhammad Ibrahim Adel, the mining minister....
...The bombing came as Baghdad buzzed with security measures for the arrival of Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s president, the first visit by a Turkish head of state in 30 years....
...In June, the watchdog fined Mohammed bin Ibrahim al-Issa, one of the largest individual investors on the Tadawul, for allegedly using his position as a board member to gain insider information and trade...
...King Abdullah has also replaced Hamad al-Sayyari, 68, the long-serving governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the central bank, with Mohammed al-Jasser, his 54-year-old deputy....
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