30-storey Kings Reach Tower scheme will include offices, shops and 173 apartments UK-based private equity real estate company CIT Group has secured £250m ($406m) from a consortium of Middle East investors to kickstart its 30-storey Kings Reach... Read more
Nigeria has suspended flights to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, following a diplomatic spat over the detention of hundreds of female pilgrims for arriving unaccompanied by men. Saudi authorities have deported more than 600 female... Read more
The Anna Lindh Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures in cooperation with Allianz Cultural Foundation, Goethe Institut, Centre for Cultural and General Studie s- ZAK, the Anna Lindh German Network and with the media partnership of DW... Read more
The High Criminal Court in Bahrain has sentenced a former senior banking official to five years in prison
Read moreThe UK unit of France’s Vinci Construction has won two contracts in Saudi Arabia worth more than £110m ($178.6m), the company said on Tuesday
Read moreSaudi petrochemical giant SABIC said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with the UK’s Cambridge University to develop new technologies
Read moreBristol man, Sakir Yildirim, is leaving on a new mercy mission, this time to war-ravaged Syria. Sakir, who is well known for his previous humanitarian projects, decided to help after seeing scenes of devastation and suffering on... Read more
Chairman says talks ongoing; manager hopes for outcome within the next two weeks Negotiations are ongoing with a Middle East-based consortium to buy English football club Leeds United with an outcome likely in the next two weeks, club... Read more
Gulf students win reprieve in UK uni row Hundreds of overseas students at London Metropolitan University, including many from the Gulf region, have been given permission to continue their studies for now after previously facing deportation
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