Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, on Monday officially launched the 27th INDEX Design Series Interiors Festival and its co-located Middle East Stone show, now in its third year. Joined by INDEX Event Director, Samantha Kane-Macdonald, Yan Wang, Event Director at Middle East Stone, and dmg …

Bloomberg President Donald Trump landed in Israel on a groundbreaking direct flight on Monday from Saudi Arabia, with Israelis and Palestinians waiting to see if the U.S. president can breathe life into a moribund peace process. After two days in Riyadh, where the U.S. delegation signed multibillion dollar defense and infrastructure deals and the president urged Muslim leaders to combat …

Bloomberg A rebel group that’s waged a six-year war against Sudan’s government will ask the U.S. to postpone a sanctions review on the African country beyond a July deadline as it accuses President Umar al-Bashir’s forces of breaching a cease-fire and blocking aid to civilians. The Obama administration in January ordered the reversal of some of the economic sanctions the …