United Arab Emirates

UK Politics

Foreign interference is real - but the UK should look beyond the usual culprits

Foreign money and foreign direction should be treated as a problem regardless of which state masterminds it
War on Iran
Iran issues warning against Arab states aiding US, as UAE cuts economic ties
Africa
UAE-backed Chinese company acquires stake in Ethiopian gold mine near Sudan war zone
GCC
Saudi Arabia tightens rules on financial transfers to UAE
Inside UAE
Fear grows among Egyptians in UAE over residency cancellations, report says
Yemen War
Is Yemen's endless war serving a US-Israeli agenda?
Shady Ibrahim
Inside UAE
UAE issues rare denial of 'imperial ambitions' in Africa
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Why the Mecca Agreement has given the UAE-Israel alliance the jitters
David Hearst
Inside UAE
UAE billionaire questions normalisation with Israel after Ben Gvir calls for nightly killings of Palestinians
War on Iran
Iran war pushes Middle Eastern airlines towards $4.3bn loss in 2026
Saudi-UAE Tensions
Former UAE presidential aide's post mocking Pakistan exposes unease over Mecca pact
Media
The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom
Peter Oborne
Energy
Saudi Arabia eyes $50bn Aramco listing as oil exports plummet
Climate change
Liberia to concede territory to UAE firm in carbon offset deal
Migration
Pakistanis flee for the Gulf to escape economic crisis at home
Politics
Could an expanded Brics make the G20 irrelevant?
Marco Carnelos
Diplomacy
How Brics is looking to challenge the western order in the Middle East
Economy
Brics invites Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Iran to join
Afghanistan
Taliban prevents 100 Afghan female students from boarding flight to Dubai
Guantanamo
Ex-Guantanamo inmate detained in UAE pleads UK to grant asylum
Diplomacy
Why Arab countries are queuing up to join Brics
Ishak Benhizia
Arabic Press Review
Arabic press review: Rare Yemeni artefacts to be auctioned in Israel
Climate change
Cop28 host UAE 'failed to report' decade of methane emissions to UN