Middle East Experience

Residential units represent $8.9m of Qatar real estate transactions last week
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Qatar real estate transactions hit .6m in one week

Abu Dhabi Police seized 377kg of crystal meth hidden in sewing machine oil cans, arresting three suspects in a major anti-narcotics operation
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Abu Dhabi Police seize 377kg of crystal meth hidden in sewing machines

Two Kurdish women invited to address the parliamentary committee were told they could not speak Kurdish during the session.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey’s parliamentary body on solving Kurdish issue bars Kurdish language speech

Armed Palestinian groups in refugee camps in Lebanon will start handing over their weapons to the authorities on Thursday, a joint committee said, following a deal reached in May.The announcement comes after the Lebanese government also tasked the army with formulating a plan to disarm the militant group Hezbollah by the end of the year."Today marks the beginning of the first phase of the process of handing over weapons from inside the Palestinian camps," Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee chairman Ramez Dimashkieh said in a statement.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Palestinian camps in Lebanon to start disarming: committee

Severely malnourished children in the Gaza Strip will be "certainly condemned to death" unless aid gets to them quickly, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini warned Thursday.The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said hunger was particularly acute in the north -- where Gaza City is -- where an estimated one million people remain.Lazzarini said an evaluation on how famine has evolved in the Gaza Strip was due to be published soon, adding UNRWA health centres had seen a six-fold increase in the number of severely malnourished children since March.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Malnourished Gaza children facing death without aid, says UN

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon said on Thursday it was launching the planned disarmament of Palestinian factions in refugee camps, part of a wider effort to establish a state monopoly on arms. The planned disarmament was starting with the handover of weapons on Thursday from the Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut to the Lebanese army, the Lebanese prime minister's office said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanon says it is beginning disarmament of Palestinian factions in refugee camps

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain summoned Israel's ambassador in London on Thursday following Israel's approval of a widely condemned settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state.Britain, along with other European nations, has slammed the plan as a "flagrant" breach of international law that would undermine the idea of a two-state solution. (Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; editing by Michael Holden)
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UK summons Israeli ambassador over settlement plan

Kuwait plans to attract $32bn in investments, create 50,000 jobs and launch 124 projects under its New Kuwait 2035 Vision, backed by major reforms
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Kuwait to attract bn investment and create 50,000 jobs under New Kuwait 2035 mega projects

UAE GCSE 2025 results revealed: some private schools report record grades, 100% pass rates and top achievements at Horizon, Repton, Aldar and Kent College
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: UAE GCSE results 2025: Record grades and 100% pass rates across top schools

The decision by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan represented a defeat for New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office brought the civil fraud lawsuit against Trump.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump's civil fraud penalty is thrown out by New York appeals court