
US Justice Department indicts former FBI Director Comey for second time
The move follows longstanding pressure from President Trump, who has repeatedly called for Comey's prosecution.
Sherif Al-Mahdi
Daily coverage from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.

The move follows longstanding pressure from President Trump, who has repeatedly called for Comey's prosecution.
Sherif Al-Mahdi

Beijing's move follows a Supreme Court ruling on the Canal and has drawn sharp criticism from Washington and Latin American governments.
Sherif Al-Mahdi

Washington's envoy frames Damascus as a new diplomatic frontier. What happens in that lab will reshape the region's next decade.
Sherif Al-Mahdi

A transport minister flying to Japan to talk green hydrogen is not a photo-op. It is a confession about where EU industrial policy actually stands.
Sophie Marchand

Qatar's energy crisis and the wider Gulf conflict aren't just geopolitical headlines — they're reshaping the most consequential luxury market of our generation.
Yasmine Khalil

Saudi Arabia wants a non-aggression pact, Russia wants $250 billion, and Ukraine wants Moscow to stop existing. A normal week.
Viktor Shpak

Saudi Arabia's stunning win over Argentina wasn't just a football result. It was the opening chapter of the story this nation is still living.
Omar Farouk

Ali al-Zaidi takes Iraq's wheel as oil tops $109. The two facts are not unrelated — and Washington should be losing sleep.
Natasha Volkov

WTI jumps 3.3% on Iran escalation chatter while gold sheds 2.3% — markets are pricing geopolitics, not panic.
Karim Al-Rashidi
A 45-day Lebanon truce extension and ongoing strikes on Gaza reveal the region's exhausting new normal — neither war nor peace.
Sherif Al-Mahdi

Abu Dhabi moves to complete a second oil export route around the strait by 2027 — while Brent sits at $111.37 and the region burns with covert action.
Sergei Petrov

Iran has handed Washington a take-it-or-leave-it list. Brent is already up 2.5%. Whoever blinks first pays in oil, ships, and credibility.
Natasha Volkov

Crude jumps 3.45% as the Gulf's two largest exporters openly hedge against their own geography. Gold cools. The Tadawul shrugs.
Karim Al-Rashidi

The Croisette has always been a mirror. This May, it is reflecting something more complicated than couture.
Aida Khoury

Five things that actually mattered in tech this week — from agentic frameworks to Saudi soft power plays you didn't see coming.
Dario Keskin

Two seasons into the superstar experiment, the SPL faces a reckoning that will define whether this was revolution or renovation.
Omar Farouk

WTI grinds higher as Hormuz incidents pile up. Tadawul softens. The market is pricing geopolitics, not fundamentals.
Karim Al-Rashidi

Iran's hardened negotiating position and Hormuz shipping tensions are rewriting global food and energy security in real time.
Sherif Al-Mahdi

Three seasons in, the world's most ambitious football project has stopped asking for respect and started demanding it.
Omar Farouk

Iran hardens its terms before sitting with Washington. Brent is already pricing the threat. The BRICS in India will price the politics.
Natasha Volkov

While Trump and Xi reset the world's most important bilateral, the EU is left rehearsing a strategic autonomy script no one in Washington or Beijing is reading.
Sophie Marchand

Markets are not panicking. They're repricing. A morning read on what overnight tape is telling us about the Gulf's new normal.
Karim Al-Rashidi

As geopolitical tremors ripple from Tehran to the Red Sea, the festival circuit is quietly negotiating what celebration means in a world on edge.
Aida Khoury

The Iran conflict hasn't just reshaped the Middle East geopolitically — it has punched a hole in the grandest sports investment project the world has ever seen.
Omar Farouk

From Riyadh's stalled megaprojects to Dubai's safe-haven surge, the regional war is redrawing the Gulf property map in real time.
Hassan Al-Mansoori

With only 19% of the Moon illuminated, this week asks you to shed old skins before the next lunar cycle begins.
Layla Noor

A regional war should be sending oil to the moon. Instead, Brent slipped to $105.84. The market is telling us something — and it isn't reassuring.
Karim Al-Rashidi

Ancient Egypt arrives in San Francisco this season, and the cultural diplomacy behind it tells us everything about where Gulf and Arab soft power is heading.
Aida Khoury

The EU has now publicly addressed Hormuz closure scenarios. For compliance officers across the CIS, GCC and EU, the legal architecture is shifting faster than the news cycle.
Alexei Morozov

Five briefs on the week tech got swallowed by geopolitics — and what founders need to understand before pitching into the fire.
Dario Keskin