Iraq has extradited from Lebanon a former health employee convicted of embezzling nearly $3 million, the country's Integrity Commission said.Alia Hassouni, a former worker at the Wasit Health Directorate, in eastern Iraq, was handed over by Lebanese authorities following co-ordination with Iraqi officials and Interpol to secure her arrest and return. “The recovery operation was the result of continued international pursuit efforts, follow-up and co-ordination with the concerned authorities,” the Integrity Commission said in a statement.Ms Hassouni was wanted in connection with two embezzlement cases involving a combined 3.78 billion Iraqi dinars (nearly $3 million) from the Wasit Health Directorate. The commission said she participated in the misappropriation of 2.86 billion dinars in one case and a further 924 million dinars in another.The Wasit Criminal Court had convicted Ms Hassouni in absentia and sentenced her to life imprisonment after reviewing evidence including witness testimony, an administrative investigation and reports, the commission said.“The court found the evidence sufficient and convincing to convict her of participating in the embezzlement of public funds,” the commission said.The ruling also ordered her to repay the stolen funds to the health authority and granted the injured party the right to seek compensation, according to the statement.Iraq has stepped...
Read briefing Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, on Saturday offered the nation's “full appreciation and praise” to hero flydubai pilot, Capt Smit Machchhar, during a hospital visit.Sheikh Hamdan said the pilot – who is receiving medical care in Abu Dhabi after being attacked by his co-pilot on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday – “embodied the highest degrees of courage, responsibility, and care for human life”.Capt Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door after he was struck with a crash axe, letting in crew members and passengers to help avert disaster as the plane plunged thousands of feet.A small group of passengers and a reserve pilot overpowered the co-pilot, steadied the plane and managed to land the Boeing 737 in Tabuk, north-western Saudi Arabia.“From us, and from the leadership of the nation, he has our full appreciation and praise,” Sheikh Hamdan said. “We are proud that he is part of our team, part of the story of our nation and part of what the UAE stands for. During a visit to Captain Smit Machchhar… the flydubai pilot who embodied the highest degrees of courage, responsibility, and care for human life.From us, and from the leadership of the nation, he has our full appreciation and praise.We are proud that he is part of our… pic.twitter.com/QgpQxdcK5C— Hamdan bin Mohammed (@HamdanMohammed) October 3, 20...
Read briefing From Olympic champions and rugby players to fighters, bodybuilders and celebrities, 100 contestants entered the arena in Physical 100: Italy hoping to prove they had the ultimate physique.After eight episodes of gruelling tests of strength, endurance, speed, agility and strategy, the competition has crowned its first winner.The Italian spin-off of Netflix's hit South Korean reality competition Physical: 100, locally titled Physical Italia: da 100 a 1, premiered on September 11 and concluded on October 2 with a final battle for the €100,000 prize.Along the way, some of the competition's biggest names were eliminated, including Olympic gymnastics champion Jury Chechi, CrossFit star Elisa Fuliano and actor and former rugby player Alvise Rigo.So who won Physical 100: Italy, what happened in the final challenge?What is the format of Physical 100?In the show, 100 men and women known for their physical prowess compete in a series of challenges testing strength, endurance, speed, agility, strategy and mental resilience. There are no separate men's and women's categories, meaning contestants can compete directly against each other regardless of gender.For Physical 100: Italy, the contestants range in age from 22 to 60 and come from a variety of sporting backgrounds. Netflix said more than 1,000 potential contestants were interviewed before the final 100 were selected. The line-up takes...
Read briefing Iraq has allowed Iranian airlines, excluding Mahan Air, to start 40 daily flights to and from Najaf International Airport, Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi's office said on Friday.The decision was made “through a series of communications and follow-ups with the relevant parties” its statement added, in an apparent reference to the US, which imposed sanctions on Iranian air travel last month.Mr Zaidi appreciated “the positive response of the US government to Iraq’s efforts and its co-operation in granting the requested exemption” to facilitate the travel of pilgrims and people seeking medical treatment.Last week, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation said ticket sales to Najaf had been suspended.An Iranian consulate in the city expressed outrage at the ban. It wrote on X: “Najaf International Airport, the shrine of the first Imam of the Shiites, and the capital of their last Imam, is closed to the largest Shiite country in the world?!”Najaf is home to the Shrine of Imam Ali, the Prophet Mohammed's cousin and son-in-law. In June, the coffin of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was paraded in the city as part of a funeral detour in Iraq.Flights to Baghdad were suspended on Wednesday. But Iranian state media had initially said that the route to Najaf would remain open. On Tuesday, the Iraqi Transport Ministry also said Iraqi Airways would resume flights to and from Ira...
Read briefing Opposition to data centres is growing in many parts of the world. Google, however is trying to address this issue in an unconventional way by testing how a data centre might operate in space. The Alphabet-owned company announced on Thursday that Project Suncatcher, which has been in the research and development stage for several years, had been launched into space "aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX". A video shared by the technology giant showed various employees applauding as the launch which took place on Thursday. Google says the purpose of Project Suncatcher is to explore “whether space could one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure” necessary to fuel the AI boom. Up, up, and away. 🚀Today, in partnership with @planet, we launched a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit on @SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. This launch is the first step of Project Suncatcher, our long-term research moonshot to see whether we can one… pic.twitter.com/6WakAX8q7N— Google (@Google) October 1, 2026Data centres are often criticised for their noise, size and intense energy needs, but setting at least some of them up in space could solve some problems. The company included its AI hardware to test that idea onboard the Transporter-18 SpaceX mission.The launch was successful, which will now make it possible for Google to test how well its techno...
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Read briefing A career setback during the Covid-19 pandemic was what motivated Zain Sohail to start thinking seriously about building something of his own. The 35-year-old Pakistani national started his career with a monthly pay of Dh2,500 ($680). As his income increased, Zain used the salary to save for and invest in an e-commerce gig. He started buying and selling home, kitchen and lifestyle products online. Zain calls that stage "experimental" as he learnt the ropes of the marketplace business.The pandemic was a reality check, Zain says. Being unemployed showed him that a job would not be the safety net that he had hoped for. In 2025, he was drawing Dh17,000 ($4,630) a month but faced yet another career transition – a nudge that helped him take on the business full time. The entrepreneur launched Xeller – a platform that supports online retailers to optimise sales and inventory on marketplaces such as Amazon and Noon. Zain combines his corporate experience in operations with his e-commerce skills to run Xeller, while also selling products under his own brands. Today, he draws Dh25,000 to Dh30,000 as a monthly salary from his business income, reinvesting and saving the rest.What was your first job and first salary?I moved to the UAE in 2013, shortly after graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Science & Technology in Pakistan. I started as a tech...
Read briefing The US Treasury Department on Thursday imposed new penalties on Russian financial company A7 on accusations that it has been used to help Iran evade sanctions.The Treasury Department in a statement described how the FinTech firm developed a network of companies based in third countries to help Iran, as well as other sanctioned people and companies, evade US sanctions. Washington said the A7 Network created a web of so-called sub-agents, which are companies designed to disguise payments linked to sanctioned people and sectors as ordinary commercial activity."In addition, A7 Network sub-agents have been used to facilitate Iranian oil sales and weapons procurement efforts," Treasury said.It detailing how A7 dealt with companies involved in Iran's "shadow fleet" network, which carries and sells sanctioned Iranian oil.Recent reporting from The New York Times and Financial Times uncovered how the Kremlin-backed FinTech company funnelled more than $6.9 billion through the international system despite sanctions placed on Russia.Parts of the A7 network had sanctions imposed against them in 2025.The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also placed sanctions on the A7 Network as a "significant transnational criminal organisation", which is defined as a group of people involving one or more foreign persons who engage or enable a pattern of serious criminal activity in two...
Read briefing California will not be following US President Donald Trump's order to refer to AI as "super intelligence". In a continuation of a long-running social media trolling campaign, California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom needled Mr Trump about the issue this week. "I just signed an executive order permanently declaring Artificial Intelligence 'Artificial Intelligence' in California," Mr Newsom posted on X, showing a picture of his recently signed executive order. "You're welcome, America."Mr Trump's attempt to promote AI amid widespread fears over its effects began in mid-September, when he told reporters that he wanted to start calling it "super intelligence", implying that the word "artificial" did not properly explain the technology.I just signed an executive order permanently declaring Artificial Intelligence “Artificial Intelligence” in California.You’re welcome, America. pic.twitter.com/84LZb02jxz— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) October 1, 2026He repeated the effort to call it "super intelligence", or SI, during his speech before the UN General Assembly last week and persisted with it during a White House meeting addressing concerns about the technology a few days later. Mr Trump said he wanted to force all government agencies to use "SI" in future, as he did when he demanded that official US documents refer to Lake Ontario as "Lake America". Typo sets the tone His attempts...
Read briefing The US is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, as President Donald Trump weighs ramping up military action against Iran.A US official told The National on Thursday that the USS Theodore Roosevelt is on its way to Central Command's area of operations, which spans the Middle East. The Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered carrier is accompanied by its carrier strike group, made up of several ships. A separate amphibious group carrying more than 2,000 marines has also departed for the region.Mr Trump last week told the UN General Assembly that he was facing a choice over whether to pursue a deal with Iran or drive it “into hell”. He suggested Tehran might reach an agreement after the US midterm elections on November 3 but also said he might "annihilate" the Iranian regime.US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the Roosevelt strike group will arrive in the region by the end of November.The USS George HW Bush and USS George Washington aircraft carriers are already in the region. The Roosevelt is expected to relieve the Washington, which is based in Japan and has been in the region since August after replacing the USS Abraham Lincoln.The deployment comes after reports emerged that conditions aboard the Lincoln had deteriorated after months at sea. The US Navy's acting secretary disclosed last week that eight servicemembers in the carrier strike group had...
Read briefing Washington will push to set up an independent, multilateral body to monitor implementation of Iran sanctions after Russia and China blocked the renewal of the UN panel that tracked violations, its envoy said on Thursday.“The United States will continue to advocate for a panel of experts while advancing an independent, multilateral panel to monitor and report on global compliance with the sanctions on Iran,” US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the UN General Assembly.“Blocking UN monitors must not block scrutiny."Mr Waltz accused Moscow of engaging in the kind of arms transfers that independent experts would investigate.“We know that Iran exported arms and related materiel to Russia, Venezuela under the Maduro regime, and countries in Africa,” he said. “We also have information that Russia transferred fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles to Iran in late 2025.”There has been a fundamental dispute over whether previous UN sanctions on Iran are legally in force. The US, Britain, France and Germany say they activated the “snapback” process under the 2015 nuclear deal last year, automatically restoring sanctions that had been lifted under the agreement.The Security Council introduced the 1737 Sanctions Committee in 2006 to oversee sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear programme. The committee became inactive after the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,...
Read briefing A Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia damaged power equipment supplying the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah, in the second attack in two weeks on the kingdom's holy cities.The drone attack took place on Tuesday morning and knocked a power transformer in Madinah out of service, said the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen. Examination of the drone wreckage "confirmed the involvement of the terrorist Houthi militia in planning and executing this cowardly terrorist act", said the Saudi military spokesman Maj Gen Turki Al Malki. The coalition said two weeks ago it had destroyed a Houthi drone south of Makkah before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city. Makkah's Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah are Islam’s two holiest sites. Maj Gen Al Malki condemned the Houthis on Thursday for what he called their "deliberate provocation of millions of Muslims worldwide by targeting Makkah and Madinah." Jasem Al Budaiwi, the Secretary General of the Gulf Co-operation Council, said the latest Houthi attack "crossed all red lines" and was a "grave escalation in violating the sanctity of Islamic holy sites". The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the attack constituted a flagrant violation of Saudi Arabia's sovereignty and a threat to its security and stability.The attacks come as Yemen endures its heaviest fighting in years between the Houthis and government forces. The foil...
Read briefing US shale executives are growing more frustrated by the Iran war's disruptive effects on oil markets interfering with their ability to plan for the future.In a quarterly survey published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, anonymous comments from oil executives showed increasing concerns on how the war is driving market volatility.“We are getting to the point in this global conflict and its effect on commodity markets that it is tough to predict what the remainder of 2026 and also 2027 will potentially look like,” one respondent said.The survey is closely monitored by the energy industry. The Dallas Fed encompasses Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico, which cover key geological areas including the Permian Basin.The survey, which covered September 16 to 24, showed the respondents anticipated the price of West Texas Intermediate crude to settle at an average of $88 a barrel at the end of this year. Responses ranged from $70 to $126 a barrel.WTI crude prices rose $1.27 on Wednesday to $90.65 a barrel on stalled talks to end the Iran conflict. WTI crude has risen by about 35 per cent a barrel since the conflict began on February 28.They also anticipate a Henry Hub natural gas price of $3.29 per million British thermal units by the end of 2026, the survey showed.“There is still too much chaos but it is leading to a bullish oil price sentiment because of all of the ra...
Read briefing Etihad Airways has responded to the independent commission decision this week that found Manchester City in breach of the Premier League's financial rules. The commission accused City of arranging contracts that misrepresented the true agreements with several commercial partners. The airline, which has been a commercial partner and sponsor of the club since 2009, said in a statement published on Wednesday evening that it "categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication that suggests the airline has ever been involved in improper commercial arrangements". The statement said "the Premier League’s public communication of the commission’s findings, following a period of selective leaks and reporting, has further created damaging implications for Etihad despite the airline not being named in the redacted published findings"."At no time did the Premier League reach out to or engage with Etihad in the process associated with the commission’s opinion. "Etihad was therefore never given the opportunity by the Premier League to be represented, to provide relevant information, or to ensure the accuracy and fairness of information relied upon in reaching conclusions that may now be interpreted as reflecting adversely on the airline", the statement said. Etihad said it was "deeply concerned by the way this matter has been communicated publicly". "The lack of clarity and transpar...
Read briefing The US State Department on Wednesday dismissed an open letter from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the American public as a “smokescreen” aimed at hiding the effects of military action against Tehran.“The IRGC’s desperate effort to lie to the American people does not change the hard facts about the Iranian regime’s record of maliciousness, both in Iran and abroad,” a State Department spokesman said in a statement.He accused Iran of continuing to choose “terror over prosperity”, saying ordinary Iranians were paying the price, and that US operations had significantly damaged Iran’s defence industrial base, navy and air force while leaving its missiles “shattered”.On Tuesday the IRGC issued a 26-page "open letter to the honourable people" of the US, urging them to reject President Donald Trump’s policies before November’s midterm elections. The IRGC has grown in power and influence since the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28.The letter accused Mr Trump of concealing the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear programme, which Israel in particular sees as an existential threat, and the effectiveness of Tehran's blockade of Gulf oil."This false letter, the Iranian regime's latest act of desperation, is nothing more than a smokescreen, and the world sees it for what it is," the US spokesman said. IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi earlier told reporter...
Read briefing The use of AI-generated summaries in news articles can manipulate memories, a study has found.The peer-reviewed research, released by Georgetown University and the University of Washington, indicates that AI overviews of articles and videos can often leave out critical details and incorrectly summarise events."Across all prompts and models, the summaries omitted 51.6 per cent of central details, on average," states the report, AI-Enabled Human Memory Manipulation. The study tested several AI models and found them to be particularly inaccurate when asked to describe an animated video showing an accident between a car and a pedestrian, affecting what people recalled. "Researchers found that 83.6 per cent of participants who read a summary with accurate information about the video answered correctly, while only 44.8 per cent of participants were correct after reading a misleading summary," the analysis read.OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini were used during the research that examined the accuracy of AI summaries. "I was struck by how bad the summaries were, even at this stage in AI development," Yael Eiger, a PhD student at the University of Washington, who helped to lead the research. Ms Eiger said the inaccuracy of and omissions by the overviews could have serious ramifications. "It worries me that police departments may be using video summarisation technologies without rigor...
Read briefing A Paris court on Wednesday found six men from Iraq and Afghanistan guilty of manslaughter over the drowning of 31 migrants on an overcrowded dinghy five years ago in the English Channel.Seven other men, including a Pakistani national, were found guilty of lesser smuggling charges, including facilitating illegal immigration as part of an organised gang and criminal conspiracy. Two, who had cut ties with smugglers before their arrest, were granted the authorisation to serve their sentence at home with electronic tags.Lawyer Emmanuel Daoud, who represented one of the victims' family members, told The National he was “satisfied” with the court's efforts at determining the involvement and responsibility of each defendant in the largest single drowning incident in the Channel.“If you traffic in human distress and vulnerability, if you deliberately take the risk of endangering people's lives by putting them in a makeshift boat, you cannot – the next day or the day after – claim that no one is responsible,” Mr Daoud said. “That was the position of most of the defendants.”The court sentenced several of the defendants to pay €9,000 ($10,200) compensation to his client and her two children. Their father, who was from Ethiopia, drowned the night the dinghy capsized in November 2021. The victims were mainly Iraqi Kurds, but also included Afghans, Ethiopians, an Egyptian, a Somali natio...
Read briefing President Donald Trump surrounded himself with some of the most influential and wealthy AI executives at the White House on Tuesday amid mounting fears about the technology.Due to concerns about AI’s potential impact on the labour market, the environmental impacts of data centres and multiple AI-induced cybersecurity incidents, US voters have grown increasingly uneasy with unregulated AI. Yet for several weeks now, Mr Trump has dismissed those fears as “a hoax.” On Tuesday, while unveiling a new AI-driven government website, he again dismissed calls for more regulations related to AI development. Several hours after introducing the new site, Mr Trump hosted a lunch with dozens of technology and AI executives. Mr Trump later told reporters that he is thinking about creating a 10-person committee to oversee the AI sector. He said the tech executives signed an agreement that is "morally binding," without providing details.He also signed an executive order in line with his recent theme of insisting that AI should be rebranded to “super intelligence.”Under the executive order, all US government documents would refer to “super intelligence” instead of AI.A seating chart showed that Palantir's Alex Karp, AMD's Lisa Su, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Google's Sundar Pichai were among those i...
Read briefing The UAE has strongly condemned the storming of Al Aqsa mosque compound by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, alongside hundreds of settlers and warned against "provocative escalation" and "unacceptable" acts of extremism. The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Israeli government to assume full responsibility for the incident, condemn hostile acts and hold all those involved accountable.MoFA's statement, which was published on Tuesday evening, said that "the continued attacks and incitement to hatred and violence constitute a systematic extremist campaign that not only targets the brotherly Palestinian people but also threatens social peace and risks further escalation".It also emphasised the need to respect the historical and legal status quo of the site.The statement went on to say Jordan's custodial role of the site needed to be respected, as well as the authority of the Jerusalem endowment that manages the affairs of Al Aqsa Mosque.
Read briefing The US on Tuesday said it would release more oil from the country's emergency stockpile in an effort to contain rising fuel prices due to energy supply disruptions from the Iran war.The Energy Department said it was offering to loan energy companies up to 40 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The offer represents the last of the drawdown of 172 million barrels from the reserve ordered in March. Bids are due by October 6, the department said.“With today’s actions, the United States continues to lead the co-ordinated efforts to stabilise oil markets for the benefit of Americans and people around the world,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement.The SPR is projected to fall to its lowest levels since 1982 once the drawdown is completed. Most recent government data recorded the reserve inventories at 284.5 million barrels for the week ending September 19. The generally accepted minimum level for safe operations is 250 million barrels.The US agreed to withdraw 172 million barrels of crude from its stockpile alongside other members of the International Energy Agency in March, to contain rising energy prices due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and strikes on key energy sites across the Gulf. The 32-member IEA agreed to a co-ordinated release of 400 million barrels from their reserves.However, the US claimed on Tuesday that “several Eu...
Read briefing UK prime minister Andy Burnham is looking at "different options" to Brexit as he seeks to rebuild the UK's relationship with its largest trading partner, the EU. In a shift towards Britain reversing Brexit Mr Burnham used his speech at the Labour Party conference to declare the exit from the EU had “done more harm than good”. In a significant indication that the UK may seek to row back on the 2016 referendum, the new Prime Minister said that at an upcoming EU summit he will set out long-term options with Britain’s biggest trading partner. In his first speech as party leader, he said that in UK politics “something very different is needed”, because “more of the same is not good enough”. “I’m going to break the mould today. I’m going to give you a real speech,” Burnham said. Those in the conference hall held their breath, then rose in applause for announcement after announcement on his plans for government. He promised to “put the country on a new path”. At the very end of his hour-long speech, which he gave without a lectern, he made the most significant shift yet in Labour’s position on Brexit. The summit, expected in November, will examine a range of options that will signal much closer economic integration. “We will not give Britain the clear path we need into the rest of this century until we decide on a long-term relationship with what is still our largest market,” he said....
Read briefing The Arabian Sea humpback whale’s unique song has long led scientists to believe that the animal was a subspecies of its own. Now, genetic research shows that the endangered mammal is distinct from other whale populations.The study led by the US's Wildlife Conservation Society and the Environment Society of Oman (ESO) compared genetic samples from Arabian Sea humpback whales with populations from across the world’s oceans.It found “compelling evidence” that the whale had its own evolutionary lineage, supporting its potential recognition as a fourth subspecies of humpback whale.Researchers analysed mitochondrial DNA from 2,285 humpback whales. The results, published on Tuesday in Frontiers in Marine Science, revealed high levels of genetic differences between the Arabian Sea population and the three currently recognised humpback whale subspecies of the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere. This indicates that the gene flow between them had been limited. The Arabian Sea population also showed the lowest genetic diversity among the ocean regions examined. The Arabian Sea whale is now believed to have evolved tens of thousands of years ago, with different groups showing estimated divergence times ranging from about 43,000 to 113,000 years ago.The next step will be to have the subspecies recognised formally by the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Taxonomy Committee. Th...
Read briefing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Washington on Monday as the US tries to advance a peace deal between Beirut and Israel. Negotiations on the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework that was initially agreed to in June have slowed amid continuing Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon, despite a supposed ceasefire. Meanwhile, Lebanon has failed to disarm Hezbollah, which was a key part of the deal.After the meeting, Mr Salam said in a statement that he looked forward to a “renewed partnership” with the US, which "aligns with the project of rebuilding the state and strengthening its legitimate institutions".He said he also urged the US to activate the trilateral framework through a reciprocal, gradual process, with a clear timetable and credible verification. Implementing the deal should proceed along with Israeli withdrawal and the extension of Lebanese state authority, he added. The US State Department did not immediately provide a report of the meeting.A central dispute over implementing the Israel-Lebanon framework is the order in which things should happen. Lebanon first wants to see an Israeli withdrawal, while Israel wants Hezbollah disarmed first, leading to a stalemate in talks. Hanin Ghaddar, the Friedmann senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Linda and Tony Rubin Programme on Arab Politics, said the agreement is clear on w...
Read briefing President Sheikh Mohamed received Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Abu Dhabi on Monday, underscoring the close ties between the two nations.Mr Fidan conveyed greetings from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the UAE President, along with his best wishes for the country's continued prosperity and progress. Sheikh Mohamed reciprocated, asking Mr Fidan to pass on his regards to Mr Erdogan and his hopes for continued prosperity and development for Turkey and its people.During the meeting, Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Fidan discussed areas of bilateral co-operation and explored ways to strengthen the ties between their countries. The discussions reflected the growing momentum in relations between the UAE and Turkey. The meeting also addressed regional and international issues, with particular focus on developments in the Middle East. Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Fidan emphasised the importance of continuing efforts to promote security, stability and lasting peace across the region.In May, Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Erdogan explored ways to deepen relations within the framework of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership that came into effect in March 2023, during a phone call.Those discussions came one day after Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, met the Turkish President.The meeting, during a working visit to Turkey by She...
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