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Jim Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama, listens during the SALT finance conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Trump, Obama advisers say Russia, Iran remain threats to US

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Putin traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday, meeting with the oil-rich nation's king and crown prince as he seeks to cement Moscow's political and energy ties across the Mideast. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Russia’s Putin seeks to enhance ties to US-allied UAE

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Australian-Lebanese dual citizen Amer Khayyat stands as he holds his Australian passport, after his release from prison in Roumieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Lebanese authorities have released the Lebanese -Australian who had been detained in Lebanon for more than two years after he was found innocent in an alleged plot to bring down a passenger plane bound for the United Arab Emirates from Sydney. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Australian-Lebanese jailed on Sydney bomb plot set free

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Amin Nasser, the chairman and CEO of the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco, speaks to journalists at the World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Nasser told journalists Tuesday a planned initial public offering of a sliver of the oil company's worth would happen &quot;very soon.&quot; (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Saudi Aramco CEO signals local listing coming ‘very soon’

By AYA BATRAWY and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia's new Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, center, and United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei, right, walk through an energy exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Prince Abdulaziz, as well as the CEOs of Total SA and ENI SpA, were in Abu Dhabi on Monday at the World Energy Congress. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

New Saudi energy minister urges producers to share burden

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Manchester City's Aymeric Laporte is hugged by teammate Kyle Walker, foreground right, after scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Brighton and Manchester City at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton, England, Sunday, May 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Title addict Guardiola retains Premier League with Man City

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2014, file photo, an Emirati man takes a selfie in front of a new Etihad Airways A380 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, that it has restructured planned airplane purchases from Airbus and Boeing as the government-owned carrier faces financial turbulence. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Etihad restructures plane purchases amid fiscal turbulence

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Pope Francis hugs Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar, after an Interreligious meeting at the Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Pope Francis has asserted in the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula that religious leaders have a duty to reject all war and commit themselves to dialogue. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The Latest: Girl approaches pope as he enters UAE stadium

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The Latest: Pope, senior Muslim cleric pledge hope for peace

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Pope Francis celebrates Mass with members of religious institutions on the occasion of the celebration of the XXIII world day of consecrated life in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Pope on first papal visit to Arabian Peninsula

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In this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 photo, two parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church take photographs of themselves in front of a cut-out picture of Pope Francis, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The pontiff’s visit from Feb. 3 through Feb. 5 marks the first papal visit in history to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. There are nine Catholic churches in the federation of seven sheikhdoms governed by hereditary rulers. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Diverse, international flock awaits Pope Francis’ UAE trip

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the UAE Minister of Tolerance gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. As the UAE prepares to host Pope Francis Feb. 3-5, the country’s minister of tolerance says the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula will contribute to building bridges in a region riven by political and sectarian divisions. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

AP Interview: UAE sees pope’s visit as way to build bridges

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Korea, Japan, Australia aiming to improve at Asian Cup

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

In this undated family photo, showing Matthew Hedges with his wife Daniela Tejada. The 31-year-old British academic Matthew Hedges was arrested May 5, 2018, at Dubai Airport and subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison for espionage. The United Arab Emirates Ambassador in London Sulaiman Hamid Almazroui said Friday Nov. 23, 2018, that his government is studying whether to grant clemency to Hedges. (Daniela Tejada via AP, FILE)

UAE pardons, releases British academic convicted of spying

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Jeff Davis senior selected for Special Olympics World Games

By KRISTA JOHNSON - Associated Press

NYU labor compliance in Abu Dhabi comes into question

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

Mohamed Khalifa al-Mubarak, the chairman of both Miral and Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism, second left, claps for a Bugs Bunny character during a news conference organized by the Warner Bros. World amusement park, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Abu Dhabi will open the $1 billion indoor amusement park this July, officials announced Wednesday, the latest offering in a crowded market in the United Arab Emirates where one marquee park already faces serious financial problems. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Abu Dhabi’s Warner Bros. indoor amusement park opens in July

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, file photo, former U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at a forum sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

George W. Bush says Russia meddled in 2016 U.S. election

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Rusty Nadal struggles in loss to Gasquet in exhibition match

By JUSTIN BERGMAN - Associated Press

The president-director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, right, welcomes the two daughters of a family as the first guests at the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2017. The Louvre Abu Dhabi has opened to the public after a decade-long wait and questions over laborers’ conditions working on the project. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

A decade in the making, Louvre Abu Dhabi opens to the public

By MALAK HARB - Associated Press