DOHA / Reuters Total has won a 30 percent stake in a new 25-year contract to operate Qatar’s largest offshore oilfield, officials said on Monday, in the second major upstream development deal for the French oil firm in the Gulf region in as many years. State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) will keep the remaining 70 percent in the new joint …

  TNS After King Salman ascended the throne, relations with France have taken center stage in the Kingdom’s foreign policy. The ties got the added fillip following Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s current visit to Paris, beginning Sunday. Jean Pierre Moline, an expert in defense policy for France and Europe, said security cooperation between the two countries is deep-rooted …

  Brussels / AFP European leaders met on Wednesday without Britain for the first time in 40 years to prepare for life after the Brexit bombshell, as the race began to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron. Highlighting the seismic shock from last week’s referendum, one person who was in Brussels however was Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, “utterly determined” to …