Saud Al-Faisal

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said that US backing for Israel gave the Jewish state the option of not making peace, in an interview published on Wednesday. "Absolute US backing... has made Israel see the option of living in the area without the acceptance of the people of the area," Prince Faisal was quoted as saying in the International Herald Tribune. "This has led to many years of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians." The prince also lamented the failure of his efforts to establish a Palestinian state and regional peace during his tenure of almost 35 years as foreign minister. During ... Read Full Story

Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, absent from the country for more than one year for medical treatment, will return within several weeks, his son said Sunday. "He has completed the treatment period and stopped taking medication about two months ago," his son Prince Khaled bin Sultan said, according to a report on the official SPA news service. "He is now in excellent health and will arrive back home during the next few weeks, God willing," said Khaled, the deputy minister of defence, at King Khalid Air Base in southern Saudi Arabia. Prince Sultan, first in line for the throne ... Read Full Story

A chef is suing a Saudi Arabian prince, alleging that he routinely worked up to 14 hours a day with no overtime pay or time off at the prince's Beverly Hills estate. Pedro Gomez filed the lawsuit Wednesday against 69-year-old Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, his wife and daughter in Los Angeles Superior Court. The prince could not be immediately reached for comment. He is the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia. Gomez says he worked for the prince from 1999 to March 2009, when he was fired. He says he prepared three meals a day for 30 people without meal ... Read Full Story

President of the UAE and hereditary ruler of its capital emirate, Abu Dhabi. UAE is home to one-tenth of world's oil reserves; petrodollars-dollars are the president's family's original source of wealth. His real estate also is becoming more valuable, as property values rose 100% from 2005 to 2007. Sheikh Khalifa spent more than $1 billion--including $200 million on a Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum--on branding Abu Dhabi as a cultural center. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority recently made headlines by investing $7.5 billion in Citibank and buying New York's Chrysler Building for $800 million. Ascended to the throne August 2005; soon after, construction began on a ... Read Full Story

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