Gulf telcos Zain, Ooredoo and TASC to form $2.2 bln regional tower giant: Kuwaiti telecoms firm Zain Group (ZAIN.KW), Qatar's Ooredoo (ORDS.QA) and Dubai's TASC Towers Holding said on Tuesday they had signed definitive agreements to combine their tower assets into a $2.2 billion entity in a cash-and-share deal.
QATAR
Qatar to sell around $644 million shares in Barclays: Qatar Holding is looking to sell around 510 million pounds ($643.72 million) of shares in Barclays (BARC.L), one of the banks acting on the deal said on Monday, cutting back on its crisis-era investment in the British bank.
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia on track to meet carbon-emission reduction target by 2030, officials say: Saudi Arabia is on track to achieve its goal to reduce carbon emissions by 278 million tons a year by 2030, officials said at the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI) Forum on Monday.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Putin to visit UAE, Saudi Arabia this week - Russian news outlet: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia this week, Russian news outlet Shot reported on Monday, citing Putin's aide Yury Ushakov. UAE banks pledge $270 billion in green finance at COP28 climate talks: Banks in the United Arab Emirates on Monday pledged to mobilize 1 trillion dirhams, or around $270 billion, in green finance, the chair of the country's banking federation told the COP28 climate talks.
MIDDLE EAST
PALESTINE – ISRAEL
Israel presses ground offensive in southern Gaza, air strikes intensify: Intense Israeli air strikes hit the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said. Lower-level Gaza talks resume with focus on detainee and hostage swap: Gaza truce negotiations held behind closed doors have resumed, with the focus on another round of prisoner and hostage exchanges between Israel and Hamas, Egyptian officials have said. Court hears suit to stop Netherlands exporting F-35 parts to Israel: Human rights groups sought to block the Dutch government from exporting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, arguing in court on Monday that the exports could make the Netherlands complicit in possible war crimes. Israel considers flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater – WSJ: Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials. WHO says it was forced to move medical supplies from southern Gaza warehouse: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had been forced to move supplies from a WHO medical warehouse in southern Gaza within a 24-hour period after a warning from the Israeli military that ground operations there would make it inaccessible. Israel investigates possible trading knowledge ahead of Oct 7 Hamas attack: Israeli authorities are investigating claims by U.S. researchers that some investors may have known in advance of a Hamas plan to attack Israel on Oct. 7 and used that information to profit from Israeli securities.
SYRIA
TÜRKIYE
Türkiye's Erdogan says Israel's Netanyahu 'will be tried as war criminal': Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would eventually be tried as a war criminal over Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, while slamming Western countries supporting Israel.
YEMEN
Houthis may not be targeting US warships, Pentagon says: Waves of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen may not be targeting U.S. warships, even though the U.S. Navy has responded by shooting down drone aircraft and missiles in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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