Qatar Introduces Hefty Fine for Oil Product Smuggling
The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has issued a new law envisaging fines of up to 1 million rials (US$275,000) and…
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman meets Sudanese president
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman received Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Qatari Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser al-Thani and Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker…
Dubai can take London’s place of a financial center
One of the first interviews I did in the Middle East was of Moe Ghashim, the CEO of Shopgo, a firm that helps small businesses…
Bahrain: Bomb shrapnel kills woman, wounds 3 kids
A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb in a restive Shiite-majority district outside the…
493 inmates died in Egyptian prisons
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) based in London has warned of the continuous official Egyptian negligence to the heat wave which has struck…
Will Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi be granted amnesty?
Mixed news was revealed late yesterday about the correctness of a leaked document explaining the legal opinion about whether the general amnesty law in Libya…
Australian court gave 2-year suspended sentence to wife of Daesh terrorist
The widow of an Australian Daesh terrorist received a suspended two-year, three-month jail sentence for providing assistance to her husband fighting in Syria. Fatima Elomar,…
Abu Dhabi’s largest investment funds merge into a big player in global oil
Abu Dhabi’s proposed merger of two of its largest sovereign investment funds would create a global energy business that produces more oil than OPEC member…
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited completes transfer to Dubai International Financial Centre
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited (HBME), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, on Thursday confirmed that it has transferred its place of incorporation…
ISIL lost the war by losing Fallujah
Iraqi military sources tell MEE that hundreds of soldiers and thousands of IS militants died in battle for Fallujah Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were killed…