Middle East and North Africa

Abu Dhabi could buy luxury Mayfair hotels from Barclay brothers

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But long-standing minority shareholder Paddy McKillen believes complex legal agreements between the shareholders effectively weaken the brothers’ hand

Don’t be sniffy about oil-rich states, Art Dubai funds the world’s most radical art

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It’s not all super-yachts and spending binges: Art Dubai, which begins this week, is opening doors for some of the most marginalised voices in art

Cheetah smuggling driving wild population to extinction, report says

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Rising demand for luxury pets in the Gulf states taking gruesome toll as two-thirds of snatched cubs are dying en route

‘This is not a harem’: the sheikh and his 60 attractive young personal shoppers

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A wealthy Dubai sheikh is scouring Venice for a small army of female assistants to help him spend his cash