As the Village People’s anthem YMCA blared across the ballroom, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman strode to the stage where Donald Trump had just delivered a speech replete with boasts about his presidency and superlatives describing the “incredible” Saudi royal. […]
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Richard Caring is in advanced talks to sell a significant portion of his UK hospitality empire — which includes the
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When Faisal checked in at Kuwait’s international airport late last year, he was a jet-setting young businessman with one of the Arab world’s strongest passports. But he never got on the plane, and when he left the airport, he was
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and PwC clashed over the Big Four firm’s plans to hire a senior executive from
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FT investigation: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and his family bought 482 properties overseas costing $295mn. The new government wants some of that money back Source link Chloe Cornish
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Qatar is using its vast sovereign wealth fund to lure venture capital firms to Doha, making it the latest hydrocarbon-rich
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On the eve of his capital’s fall, Bashar al-Assad climbed into a Russian armoured vehicle with his eldest son Hafez and drove away, leaving relatives, friends and loyalists frantically searching for the man who had promised to protect them. Not
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of Syria’s most powerful rebel faction has signalled that his forces do not want new conflicts despite a
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Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his relatives were secretly buying assets in Russia. The Financial Times
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rebel leader who toppled Bashar al-Assad in Syria has pledged to pursue “war criminals” of the ousted regime as
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