When 60,000 football fans gathered in Jeddah for the Arabian Gulf Cup on Tuesday, they inadvertently highlighted the vulnerability of major sports events hosted by Gulf monarchies to the wars raging across the region. The previous day, Saudi Arabia resumed strikes on Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels after a four-year ceasefire collapsed. That truce had originally followed a Houthi attack on an oil facility near Jeddah’s Formula One track during a practice session. While the two-week football...
Can Saudi Arabia’s 2034 Fifa World Cup survive the Middle East’s escalating wars?
Escalating conflicts threaten to leave billions in Gulf sports infrastructure stranded, casting doubt on the region’s mega-event strategy
When 60,000 football fans gathered in Jeddah for the Arabian Gulf Cup on Tuesday, they inadvertently highlighted the vulnerability of major sports events hosted by Gulf monarchies to the wars raging across the region.
Der Konflikt zwischen Saudi-Arabien und der Huthi-Miliz verschärft sich: Nun gab es bei einem Angriff in Riad mindestens zwölf Tote und Hunderte Verletzte. Der Flughafenbetrieb blieb zunächst ausgesetzt.
UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice A Syrian plastic surgeon is facing deportation from the UK after the Home Office revoked his refugee status, declaring it is now safe for him and his family to return to their home country. Despite Foreign Office guidance advising against all travel to Syria because of the “volatile” security situation, the government has classified it as a safe place for refugees to return to. Continue reading...
Although there is scepticism about Tehran’s capabilities, it has become clear it wants Britain to feel it poses a risk Britain may have been only peripherally involved in the bombing of Iran that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu started, but in the past fortnight it has become clear that Tehran wants to pose a threat inside the UK in response. In the aftermath of the confused incident near RAF Fairford, western officials are weighing up whether to warn publicly that Iran now has US military t
The alleged murder and dismemberment of Abby Choi Tin-fung in 2023, which prosecutors say was linked to a dispute over a luxury flat, has once again gripped Hong Kong as the trial over the 28-year-old socialite’s death entered its second week. Choi’s ex-husband, Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 31, and his elder brother, Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, have pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful burial of her body. Their father, Kwong Kau, 68, has pleaded not guilty to the same charge. All three men deny...
For the past few months, this newspaper has extensively covered China’s ongoing clampdown on tax avoidance, especially its push to tax the income of super-rich families held in offshore trusts. We never expected to become targets of the campaign ourselves. But there have been signs in recent weeks that officials are starting to take an interest even in the incomes of South China Morning Post journalists, with several of us being contacted by the tax man. First, a colleague with our Beijing...
Un uomo di 33 anni, affetto da disabilità, è stato vittima di una sequenza di violenze, prevaricazioni e atti di cyberbullismo da parte di sei giovani, uno dei quali minorenne di 16 anni, tutti denunciati dai carabinieri. I fatti, resi noti questa mattina, si sono verificati nella notte dello scorso 12 settembre a Belgioioso (Pavia), vicino all'incrocio tra…