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U.N. Power Broker Jeffrey Sachs Took Millions From the UAE to Research “Well-Being” STARTING IN 2016, the men who run the United Arab Emirates went all-in on positivity. They installed a giant smiley face on the dome crowning a Dubai police station. They ...
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London court rules Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid must pay Princess Haya a lump sum of about $333 million plus annual payments. A London court awarded the former wife of Dubai’s ruler a divorce settlement of more than £550 million, equivalent to ...
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ordered to pay £554m to ex-wife in Britain’s most expensive divorce. Princess Haya was "blackmailed" out of £7 million by four members of her security team whom she paid to keep quiet about an ...
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai, must pay about £554m in child maintenance and security costs to his estranged wife Princess Haya and their two children, in what is believed to be the largest post-divorce financial ...
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Divorce files show Princess Haya accused Dubai’s ruler of seizing 83 horses for the stables that bankroll British racing. Kevin Manning was wearing the green and black silks of Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein when he rode New Approach to win ...
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Princess Haya and Sheikh Mohammed’s High Court battle has revealed details of blackmail by her bodyguard lover. The ruler of Dubai has been ordered to pay his youngest wife and their two children a record £554 million settlement after a ...
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The UK national, who has spent three years in jail awaiting trial in the AgustaWestland case, says the Modi government helped the UAE abduct Princess Latifa in 2018 so that it could get him in exchange ...
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The blingy TV franchise is coming to the emirate with a reputation for extreme luxury. It might be an awkward marriage. “Life is different in a gated community.” In the 15 years since The Real Housewives of Orange County first buttonholed its ...
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A senior judge has called for an end to secrecy in family cases in the biggest overhaul of court reporting in 60 years. Sir Andrew McFarlane’s plan would create a presumption of “openness and transparency” in all family court cases, ...
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The High Court recently found that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ordered the hacking of the phones of his ex-wife and her lawyers, amid their acrimonious split. Earlier this month, news broke that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ...
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Ten-day hearing is expected to lead to largest divorce payout in British legal history. Jordan’s Princess Haya has launched her court bid to claim what experts predict may be a record-breaking divorce settlement from her estranged billionaire husband, Dubai ruler ...
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The biggest divorce case in British legal history began yesterday as a Jordanian princess arrived at court to demand a share of the fortune of the ruler of Dubai. Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, 47, is seeking a settlement following the ...
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Sarah Palin at Doughty Street Chambers acted successfully for nine newspapers and broadcasters, including The Times, so they could publish judgments on the custody hearings between the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, and his former wife, Princess ...
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An exclusive club closely associated with the royal family has been urged to sever its links with the ruler of Dubai after a judge found he had orchestrated the hacking of mobile phones. The Guards Polo Club was founded by ...
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Findings of UK high court judge have repercussions beyond the Gulf state. So bad were relations between Princess Haya and her estranged husband Dubai’s billionaire ruler that she felt “hunted all the time” and that there was “nowhere for me ...
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Scotland Yard faces growing pressure to reopen an investigation into alleged phone hacking by the ruler of Dubai. Detectives closed the inquiry eight months before a High Court ruling was made public on Wednesday. It found that Sheikh Mohammed bin ...
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Cherie Blair faces scrutiny about her work for a secretive company behind a spyware system despite exposing its use in the hacking of a Conservative peer. The wife of Tony Blair, the former Labour leader, is an ethics adviser to ...
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Dubai’s ruler faces a criminal investigation over the hacking of a Tory peer’s phone. British judge’s conclusion that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum used sophisticated spyware to hack the phone of his estranged wife’s lawyer will only deepen the acrimony ...
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The government was urged last night to review its diplomatic relationship with one of its closest Middle East allies after a judge implicated its ruler in the hacking of a Tory peer’s mobile phone. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of ...
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The ruler of Dubai was found to have hacked the phones of his former wife, a Jordanian princess, and of her lawyers. One of those targeted is a member of the House of Lords in Britain. When the hyper-wealthy ruler ...
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai, targeted the phone of his estranged wife Princess Haya with a military-grade spyware tool during a London court battle over their two children, a High Court judge has found. Sheikh ...
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The ex-wife of Dubai’s leader has reason to doubt the tale of his prodigal daughter — she too was held captive by him, she claims. Reclining by a window in her hilltop residence outside Beirut, Randa al-Banna took a puff ...
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai rules one of the world's richest city-states--and prides himself on being progressive. So why do women from his family keep fleeing? In late 2019, I wrote a lengthy investigation into the flight ...
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Louise Callaghan, The Times July 25, 2021 From a conference stage at Tel Aviv University, Israel’s new prime minister called on all “good nations” to join forces against the growing scourge of cybersecurity threats. Yet Naftali Bennett, a millionaire tech ...
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A spyware tool developed by an Israeli security company might have been used to trace an Emirati princess who tried to flee her father’s kingdom. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was recaptured by commandos in a yacht off the coast ...
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