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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Prime Minister <keyword id="12873476" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="viktor-orban" source="Orion">Viktor Orban</keyword> has said the EU <keyword id="13338573" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-oil-ban" source="Orion">Russian oil ban</keyword> would be a "nuclear bomb" for <keyword id="12012812" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hungary" source="Orion">Hungary</keyword>'s economy.</li><li>The central European country has emerged as a key obstacle to the EU's plan to completely stop Russian oil imports.</li></ul>Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said a ban on Russian oil imports would be like a "nuclear bomb" for the country's economy.The central European country is blocking the European Union's proposals <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/eu-russian-oil-ban-crude-refined-ukraine-sanctions-economy-putin-2022-5">for a total ban</a> on the import of Russian oil.Orban said in a state radio interview Friday that the EU proposal would be like "dropping a nuclear bomb on the Hungarian economy".The leader also said he wants the EU to give Hungary five years to wean itself off of Russian oil. The bloc is currently offering Hungary and Slovakia a one-year exemption.Orban said Hungary's dependence on oil pipelines means it would need to make vast investments to pivot away from Russian oil.Hungary has become a key obstacle in the EU's plans to ramp up economic pressure on Russia by completely banning all oil imports from the country. Any action has to be unanimously approved by the bloc's 27 member countries.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially proposed the plan Wednesday. She said the bloc would ban imports of crude oil within six months, and of refined products by the end of the year.The costs to the EU would be high, von der Leyen said, but added it was a step worth taking to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine."Let us be clear: it will not be easy. Some member states are strongly dependent on Russian oil. But we simply have to work on it," the she <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_22_2785">told</a> the European Parliament.The EU as a whole received 25% of its oil imports from Russia in 2021, according to Eurostat data.Yet Hungary and its neighbor Slovakia are far more reliant. Hungary and Slovakia got 58% and 96% of their respective total oil imports from Russia in 2021, according to International <keyword id="11917806" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="energy" source="Orion">Energy</keyword> Agency figures cited by Reuters.Oil prices have risen sharply since the EU proposed the ban. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price">Brent crude</a>, the international benchmark price, was up 1.9% to $113.01 a barrel Friday morning. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=wti">WTI crude</a>, the US benchmark, was 1.88% higher at $110.27 a barrel.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-why-sell-shares-cash-bearish-fund-manager-2022-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The boss of a $2.2 billion hedge fund who's called the last two big bear markets lays out why he's moved virtually all his assets into cash. He shares what he wants to see before buying back in</a>

Hungary says an EU ban on Russian oil would be a 'nuclear bomb' for its economy, as it derails embargo plans

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Three people died when a trail in northeast <keyword id="44181" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Scotland">Scotland</keyword> derailed on Wednesday morning, including the driver.</li><li>The <keyword id="41341" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="train">train</keyword> left the track near the town of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, not long before 10 a.m. local time.</li><li>Details are still emerging of what happened. The BBC reported that the train may have derailed after encountering a landslide and toppling down an embankment.</li><li>Scotland's first minister said the scene of the derailing is difficult to access, complicating the rescue efforts.</li><li>The region had been hit by heavy rainfall the previous day, disrupting much of the rail network.</li></ul>At least three people are dead after a train derailed in Scotland on Wednesday morning, including the train's driver.<a href="https://media.btp.police.uk/r/17325/three_people_have_sadly_died_following_train_dera">The British Transport police said in a statement</a> on Wednesday afternoon that three people had been killed.It said: "Very sadly despite the best efforts of paramedics, we can confirm that three people have been pronounced dead at the scene.""While formal identification is yet to take place, the driver of the train is very sadly believed to have died. His family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained family liaison officers."The British Transport Police said that six other people were injured, though not seriously.It is not clear how many people were on the train before it derailed.Eddie Wylie, the British Transport Police's chief superintendent, said "I would like to reassure the public that this was not a busy service, and from CCTV enquiries and witness statements we believe all passengers have been accounted for."He said a full search would still take place.Photo and video footage from the scene showed smoke rising from the train.<div type="image" title="stonehaven train crash" height="1667" width="2500" msid="77511105" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-scotland-53751774">The BBC reported</a> that the train's locomotive and three of its carriages may have left the track and slid down an embankment.It cited sources that said the train stopped due to flooding on the line, and was then approved to switch to clearer tracks and continue. But, the BBC said, it then hit a landslide and derailed.Those details have not been confirmed.The train derailed near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.<div type="image" title="stonehaven train crash" height="1667" width="2500" msid="77511111" hostid="261"></div>Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, said the incident happened in a "very difficult location for emergency services to access."The British Transport Police said that its officers were called at 9.43 a.m., and were working with the ambulance service, police, and fire brigade.Heavy rainfall had disrupted Scotland's railways throughout the day, forcing almost 200 train journeys to be canceled on Wednesday morning.The British Transport Police <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/scottish-train-delays-scotrail-cancels-nearly-200-services-amid-flooding-after-thunderstorms-2939671">warned earlier on Wednesday</a> that the rain had caused "significant disruption" and would cause delays.Network Rail Scotland had shared footage of flooded tracks in the country:

At least 3 people are dead after a train in Scotland derailed and caught fire

10 photos that threatened to derail political careers - from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to presidential candidate Gary Hart

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>In September 2019, several photos and a video of Canadian Prime Minister <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/justin-trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a> in black face <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-justin-trudeau-blackface-third-2019-9">have surfaced</a>, bringing him under intense scrutiny as he campaigns for re-election. </li><li>Photos have also ended careers for former US politicians Al Franken, Chris Lee, and Anthony Weiner.</li><li>The wrong photo has also torpedoed campaigns for political office, including US presidential candidates Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, and John Kerry. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword> is a cutthroat profession. One bad photo and it's all over.In September, photos and a video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dressed up in blackface on different occasions <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justin-trudeau-brownface-canadian-politicians-line-up-to-attack-2019-9">surfaced</a>. He's apologized. But as he campaigns for a second term as prime minister in next month's election, the photos could have lasting repercussions.Trudeau isn't the only one to face criticism for controversial photos. American politicians Al Franken, Chris Lee, Anthony Weiner, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Krystal Ball have all dealt with the fall-out from photos.Hiding such a photo could make a big difference, too. The three images of Trudeau in blackface only emerged near the end of his first term. And a photo of Barack Obama with notorious antisemite and homophobe Louis Farrakhan didn't come to light until 2018, after Obama had already served two terms as president.There's also former British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband who has to live with becoming <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ed-miliband-eating-a-bacon-sandwich-is-now-a-meme">a bacon sandwich-chewing meme</a>.&#xa0;Here are 10 photos that have - or could have - derailed political careers.&#xa0;

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A train derailed in <keyword id="46274" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Taiwan">Taiwan</keyword> on Friday when it hit a truck on the tracks, killing 48 and injuring 198.</li><li>The construction manager said to be responsible for the truck said Sunday he deeply regrets the accident.</li><li>Investigators are looking into why the truck's emergency brake was not properly engaged.</li></ul>The construction site manager whose truck slid onto a railway track and led to a <a href="https://www.insider.com/taiwan-train-crash-36-dead-200-remain-trapped-in-tunnel-2021-4">train derailment</a> in Taiwan on Friday that left nearly 50 dead expressed his "sincerest apologies" as he was led away from his home by police on Sunday. Lee Yi-hsiang had tears in his eyes as he addressed reporters gathered outside his home. "I deeply regret this and express my deepest apologies. I will definitely cooperate with the prosecutors and police in the investigation, accept the responsibility that should be borne, and never shirk it. Finally, I once again express my sincerest apologies," Lee said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-train-idUSKBN2BR04O" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. According to <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/05/asia/taiwan-train-apology-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, Lee was initially granted bail on Saturday, but that decision was later revoked by a higher court, and Lee was taken back into custody on Sunday.Lee was deemed a flight risk and revealed to have a previous conviction, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56632955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC, citing Taiwanese media.</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56632955" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><div type="image" title="taiwan train derailment" height="1334" width="2000" msid="81912032" hostid="261"></div></a>The government's disaster relief center said Lee's emergency brake was not properly engaged when it slid down a hill onto the train tracks, with no time for the <a href="https://www.insider.com/taiwan-train-crash-video-footager-2021-4">train's</a> conductor to respond, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-accidents-rail-accidents-b947622e35a68e083f41d6796b4195dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. Investigators will look into whether the emergency brake was not engaged due to a mechanical failure or negligence on Lee's part, CNN reported. While officials initially pegged the death toll at 51, the number was lowered to 50 and then to 48 by Sunday. Another 198 passengers were injured in the derailment, according to the AP. The train was packed, with many having to stand for the journey, due to the busy Tomb Sweeping Holidays, when people return to their hometowns to pay respect to their dead ancestors, according to the AP. Questions have been raised about why there wasn't fencing to protect the truck from wandering onto the tracks. Transport Minister Lin Chia-lung offered to resign over the disaster but his resignation was not accepted by Taiwan's premier, according to Reuters.

Truck driver expresses his 'deepest apologies' for Taiwan train derailment that left 48 dead

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ali Shihabi set up the Arabia Foundation to promote MBS to the <keyword id="11900133" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="washington" source="Orion">Washington</keyword>, DC, elite.</li><li>He weathered claims of official Saudi funding, an employee lawsuit, and Khashoggi's murder.</li><li>But he abruptly closed the foundation with no warning. Here's the story of what - and who - got in his way.</li></ul>Seated at a large table at Le Tsé Fung, a Michelin-starred restaurant at La Réserve - a secluded five-star hotel overlooking Switzerland's Lake Geneva - Ali Shihabi was feeling elated, if a little apprehensive.It was August 27, 2018, and Shihabi - the founder of the Arabia Foundation, a new Washington DC-based Saudi-advocacy nonprofit - had flown thirty VIPs 4,000 miles by business class for the foundation's second annual summit, an invite-only affair conducted under strict Chatham House rules (pass on what you learn, but don't name names).His reputation, newly built in Washington, was on the line.At dinner, dignitaries like Prince Khalid bin Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, rubbed shoulders with journalists and leading political analysts. Shihabi - tall, stubbly, and bespectacled - steered the discussions.Shihabi, a former banker, had opened the foundation in March 2017 to fill what he believed was a gaping hole. To him, <keyword id="11894587" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="saudi-arabia" source="Orion">Saudi Arabia</keyword> was woefully misunderstood, and Crown Prince <keyword id="12060852" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mohammed-bin-salman" source="Orion">Mohammed bin Salman</keyword>'s reforms were real, not just bread and circuses. Shihabi believed his government was failing to sell itself. Shihabi quickly made his mark on Washington, hosting dinners with the city's elite and making cable-news rounds. But when the foundation shuttered abruptly, 11 months after the La Réserve summit, the city was nonplussed. What happened? The closure was intriguing, not least because Shihabi had made as many adversaries as friends advancing the Saudi cause, especially in his defense of Crown Prince Mohammed, also known as MBS, in the wake of <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-2019-10">Jamal Khashoggi's murder</a>.This is the story of how the Arabia Foundation rose and vanished, according to hundreds of pages of leaked court filings from an ongoing employee lawsuit, and interviews with ten people connected to Shihabi or his foundation.Shihabi was tight-lipped about the closure at the time, attributing it to differences among donors. "Nothing more exciting than that I'm afraid," he <a href="https://twitter.com/aliShihabi/status/1156901188224397312">tweeted</a>. Others were unconvinced.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170414215025/http:/www.arabiafoundation.org/blog/The-Launch-of-The-Arabia-Foundation">In its debut dispatch,</a> the Arabia Foundation promised to fill what it called "a critical gap in the understanding and coverage of Saudi Arabia." Among friends, Shihabi often grumbled that it was absurd that US academics who had never stepped foot on Saudi soil, or learned Arabic, appeared in US media to demystify the kingdom's affairs. <div type="image" title="Ali SHihabi seen on CNBC" height="717" width="1435" msid="86065792" hostid="261"></div>Shihabi hired Firas Maksad, a top Middle East-focused think-tank operative, as CEO. "Firas was basically Ali's facilitator," Geneive Abdo, a foundation employee, said in a September 2020 court deposition. "He introduced him to people around town." Shihabi also enlisted Bernard Haykel, a leading US scholar of Saudi Arabia and his friend of 20 years, as one of several unpaid advisors.Shihabi inculcated Washingtonians about Saudi Arabia, attending book parties and hosting off-the-record dinners in Georgetown, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/23/shihabi-saudi-arabia-washington-ambassador-933951">Politico reported</a>. He racked up scores of newspaper and cable-news appearances discussing Saudi affairs.Money flowed in. The foundation received $6 million in 2017 and 2018, according to Internal Revenue Service filings. Shihabi told employees and acquaintances that his donors were wealthy businessmen in Riyadh, but questions over the source of these funds dogged him.Shihabi never pretended to be nonpartisan, however, and in private deliberations was upfront about his links to the Saudi elite. He often flew between Riyadh and Washington, had met MBS several times, and had cordial relations with figures like Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister. Before Washington, Shihabi worked at banks on the Arabian peninsula, including the Saudi Central Bank."People weren't lapping up milk like uncritical kittens," J. Adam Ereli, a director at the Arabia Foundation, told Insider. "They knew that Ali was Saudi, they knew that he had official Saudi support."Shihabi's father, Samir, was a Palestinian refugee naturalized by Saudi Arabia in the 1940s, who later served as Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Pakistan, and Turkey.Ali, who spent much of his youth living outside Saudi Arabia due to his father's postings, felt a strong sense of belonging regardless. "It's a region that has been good to him and his family," Haykel said.A year into Shihabi's mission, Saudi Arabia's stock was high in Washington. The CEOs of Apple and Google treated MBS to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4">guided tours of their Silicon Valley campuses</a> in April 2018 and, in June, then-President Donald Trump heaped praise on MBS for letting Saudi women drive for the first time. But that sentiment evaporated when, in early October, Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. The Saudi embassy on Washington's New Hampshire Avenue was mute, and Shihabi was the lone voice of opposition, appearing on PBS' "Frontline" and CNN's "Amanpour" to defend the kingdom's version of events. (The CIA would later conclude that MBS likely ordered the hit.)"Shihabi had to become the spokesperson for MBS in Washington," a former senior State Department official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, told Insider. It was not a coincidence that Prince Khalid bin Salman al-Saud was replaced as ambassador soon after, the official added.Shihabi's stance riled many, especially as he had known Khashoggi well. "Keep cashing those checks, Ali. I cannot for the life of me understand how you sleep at night," Karen Attiah, Khashoggi's editor, <a href="https://twitter.com/karenattiah/status/1053729719659700224?lang=en">tweeted</a> at the time.Shihabi briefly decamped to California after Khashoggi's death, and the furor eventually died down. From early 2019, Saudi lobbyists <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/saudis-return-to-washington-after-khashoggi-140931538.html">started picking up the pieces</a> on Capitol Hill and US companies <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/27/saudi-arabia-us-influence-machine-lobbying-khashoggi/">signed new contracts with the Saudi government</a>.The Saudi cause arguably needed the Arabia Foundation more than ever. But on July 30, 2019, it vanished over lunch.At 10 a.m. that day, Shihabi seated himself beneath his foundation's banners for a panel discussion hosted alongside the Atlantic Council. He was typically combative throughout the event, and when it ended at 12 p.m. he stood, swiftly shook hands, and exited the stage.Soon after, a message pinged on the Arabia Foundation's staff WhatsApp group. Everyone was to be back at the L Street office within the hour, Shihabi wrote. The foundation was closing.In a conference room, Shihabi told the roughly dozen people gathered around the table that his donors had stopped funding the operation. Staffers should pack their things and their email addresses would stop working, he said. Days later they would receive nondisclosure agreements to sign, which would release their severance pay.The closure came after a monthslong effort by Saudi officials to influence or hinder Shihabi's work, according to a person close to the foundation. The source requested anonymity out of fear for their safety but their identity is known to Insider.According to the source, in early 2019, Saudi officials had approached Shihabi and informed him that he was to start reporting to a government committee overseeing US-Saudi affairs. Spearheading the committee were Princess Reema bint Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the US, and Prince Khalid bin Salman, the kingdom's deputy defense minister, the source said, adding, "That's just like saying, 'we're gonna pull the strings.'"The source also told Insider, without specifying details, that there were two Saudi officials in particular who were working to hamper Shihabi's efforts in Washington: Adel al-Juber, the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and a senior civil servant who served as the head of the royal Diwan, the king's advisory chamber."The Arabia Foundation was a victim of its own success," Ereli said of the closure."As Ali became an increasingly powerful voice for the kingdom in the US, there were people in Riyadh who wanted to either control it or manage it.""Ali was just hamstrung ... When he was off doing his thing and actually making a difference, it was fine. When people back in Riyadh started fucking with him, he just said, 'I'm done.'""If the back office isn't helping you, then you can't do your job. When I say office in this case, I mean the government bureaucracy in Riyadh."<div type="image" title="a composite of Ali Shihabi (L) and Adam Ereli (R.)" height="1000" width="2000" msid="86065795" hostid="261"></div>In a statement to Insider, Shihabi said: "I set up the Foundation to be independent of donor interference. When I saw that that was no longer going to be possible, I closed it down. Simple as that."The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC, did not respond to Insider's request for comment.In the days after the foundation's closure, speculation was rife in Washington."It couldn't have been more abrupt," a senior academic, who has worked at Middle East-focused think tanks for more than two decades, told Insider. "Something really weird happened because this is not what organizations do."One theory, as Gregory Gause, an Arabia Foundation advisor, told Insider, was that the Khashoggi murder had made it "extremely difficult to sell Saudi Arabia in the US."Another theory was that donors bolted in light of a lawsuit filed against Shihabi by Ola Salem, the foundation's former communications director.In her April 2019 complaint, Salem claimed that Shihabi was discriminatory, made unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her. "If you don't do a good job for this event I'll behead you," Shihabi told Salem in 2017, according to the complaint.Salem alleges that on another occasion Shihabi told her: "Come over here - I didn't get my morning kiss today."In his deposition, Shihabi said he "continuously" joked about beheading people for making trivial errors, and denied making the comment about the kiss. <div type="image" title="Founder and Chairman of Ramala Investment Bank Ali Al Shihabi participates at a Al Arabiya TV debate at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Marrakesh October 28, 2010. The forum runs from October 26 to 28. REUTERS/Jean Blondin (MOROCCO - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS HEADSHOT)" height="1722" width="3443" msid="86065797" hostid="261"></div>"Had I felt the lawsuit had any merit, I would have settled quickly and quietly for a fraction of the legal costs, as many others do," Shihabi told Insider. The lawsuit is still ongoing.Those Insider spoke to for this story all agreed that Shihabi, a 62-year-old graduate of Princeton and Harvard Business School and the author of two books, is intelligent, driven, and commendably well-read.What they also agreed on was that he is aggressive, brash, and self-destructive."Anything can set him off," Salem said in her deposition. "It's even worse, actually, than [walking on] eggshells. It's like walking on grenades."Abdo, the foundation employee, agreed in her deposition. "He intimidated and bullied the staff all the time," she said, also calling him "extremely domineering."The senior academic told Insider: "He's one of the most impulsive people I've dealt with in Washington. He's absolutely capable of saying 'you know what, comma, screw it."Shihabi told Insider that in Washington, it is a case of eat or be eaten."I had to be loud, brash, and aggressive since you cannot quickly make an impact in a place such as DC by being soft-spoken and timid," he said. "After all, because I was advocating views that went directly against the dominant narrative, I had to forcefully impose these views onto the narrative, or else they never would have been heard."Shihabi's dinners were well known in Washington, and not always for the right reasons."He would insult people at the dinners, and they would leave in anger," Abdo said in her deposition. At one dinner, which featured Maksad and journalists from CNN and The Atlantic, Shihabi spent the meal "essentially screaming at anyone who disagreed with him," the journalist Hassan Hassan, Salem's husband, said in his deposition.When asked by Insider, Shihabi said: "My dinners were very popular in DC. I used to hold them often twice a month and if I had spent my time screaming at people I doubt they would have continued to attend."When asked to summarize Shihabi's temperament, Gause told Insider: "Ali doesn't mind a good fight."Shihabi's hackles also raised when his staff went too far in criticizing MBS, according to Abdo in her deposition. Abdo said Shihabi once tried to block the publication of an article she had written for The Washington Post hours before it was set to publish because it didn't paint MBS in a positive light.Shihabi denied blocking the article. "We never tried to block anything our people wrote because we were sensitive about exactly this accusation," he told Insider. <div type="image" title="RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 28 (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - &quot;SAUDI ROYAL COUNCIL / HANDOUT&quot; - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman gives an interview to the official TV channel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on April 28, 2021. (Photo by Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)" height="1554" width="3109" msid="86065800" hostid="261"></div>Despite being a firm believer in MBS' vision, Shihabi's support for Saudi Arabia wasn't total. "He was never a crude apologist, he was always a very sophisticated interpreter, explainer," Haykel said.Shihabi had long had issues with how the country was run, especially when it came to the religious establishment and government bureaucracy. In 1996, after the religious authorities banned sports for women, he left Saudi Arabia so his daughter could be schooled in Dubai.Shihabi now spends much of the year in Portugal, on the site of an avocado farm bought by his late father.He is still widely quoted in the US and world media, demystifying Saudi developments as they emerge, even as his plan to use his foundation to sway Washington in Riyadh's favor didn't go as planned.But those efforts did not go unnoticed. "There were all kinds of offers made to him to be in Riyadh if he wanted to be," Haykel told Insider. In March 2020, Shihabi announced that he'd been appointed to the advisory board of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/neom">Neom</a>, a futuristic mega-city under construction in Saudi Arabia's northwest.Neom is the prized project and central pillar of MBS' "Vision 2030" for Saudi Arabia. Also on the board is Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. "I think that tells you that Ali's still a valued human resource for the senior levels of the government," Ereli said. With the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks looming, Saudi Arabia remains a tricky sell in Washington. But it's a sure bet that Shihabi will keep trying.

An influential Saudi banker moved to the US to pitch his country and crown prince to DC. Here's how his mission suddenly derailed.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11893449" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pakistan" source="Orion">Pakistan</keyword>'s political opposition ousted Prime Minister <keyword id="11995831" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="imran-khan" source="Orion">Imran Khan</keyword> in a no-confidence vote on Sunday.</li><li>The country's Parliament will hold a vote on Monday to determine the new prime minister.</li></ul>ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's political opposition ousted the country's embattled prime minister in a no-confidence vote early Sunday, which they won after several of Imran Khan's allies and a key coalition party deserted him.The combined opposition that spans the political spectrum from the left to the radically religious will form the new government, with the head of one of the largest parties, the Pakistani Muslim League, taking over as prime minister.Anticipating his loss, Khan, who charged the opposition colluded with the United States to unseat him, has called on his supporters to stage rallies nationwide on Sunday. Khan's options are limited and should he see a big turnout in his support, he may try to keep the momentum of street protests as a way to pressure Parliament to hold early elections.Khan earlier had tried to sidestep the vote by dissolving Parliament and calling early elections but a Supreme Court ruling ordered the vote to go ahead.The vote comes amid cooling relations between Khan and a powerful military who many of his political opponents allege helped him come to power in general elections in 2018. The military has directly ruled Pakistan for more than half of its 75 years and wields considerable power over civilian governments, who worry a disgruntled army could unseat them.The opposition called for Khan's ouster charging economic mismanagement as inflation soars and the Pakistani rupee plummets in value. The vote caps months of political turmoil and a constitutional crisis that required the Supreme Court to sort out.In an impassioned speech Friday, Khan doubled down on his accusations that his opponents colluded with the United States to unseat him over his foreign policy choices, which often seemed to favor China and Russia and defied the U.S.Khan said Washington opposed his Feb. 24 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin hours after tanks rolled into Ukraine, launching a devastating war in the heart of Europe.Ahead of the vote his lawmakers addressed Parliament attack a letter Khan said told of a senior U.S. official, who was not named, who informed top Pakistani diplomats that Washington's relations with Pakistan would improve if Khan was ousted. Human rights minister Shireen Mazari said the memo named Khan and said that if he was out of power "all would be forgiven."She went on to ask: "Forgiven for what? What is our sin?"The U.S. State Department has denied any involvement in Pakistan's internal <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter told reporters on Friday there was "absolutely no truth to these allegations."Still, Khan urged his supporters to take to the streets, particularly the youth who have been the backbone of his support since the former cricket star turned conservative Islamist politician came to power in 2018. He said they needed to protect Pakistan's sovereignty and oppose U.S. dictations."You have to come out to protect your own future. It is you who have to protect your democracy, your sovereignty and your independence. ... This is your duty," he said. "I will not accept an imposed government."Khan's allegations of U.S. involvement are likely to resonate with many in Pakistan, says Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Washington -based Wilson Center"Khan's conspiracy allegations will resonate in a country where there's a tendency to ascribe the worst possible motives to U.S. policy, especially because there is a past history of U.S. meddling in Pakistani politics," said Kugelman.Khan's insistence there is U.S. involvement in attempts to oust him also exploits a deep-seated mistrust among many in Pakistan of U.S. intentions, particularly following 9/11.Washington has often berated Pakistan for doing too little to fight Islamic militants, even as thousands of Pakistanis have died at their hands and the army has lost more than 5,000 soldiers. Pakistan has been attacked for aiding Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents while also being asked to bring them to the peace table.The no-confidence vote loss for Khan brings to power some unlikely partners.Among them is a radically religious party that runs scores of religious schools. The Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam, or Assembly of Clerics, teaches a deeply conservative brand of Islam in its schools. Many of Afghanistan's Taliban and Pakistan's own homegrown violent Taliban graduated from JUI schools.The largest among the opposition parties — the Pakistan People's Party, led by the son of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the Pakistan Muslim League — have been tainted by allegations of widespread corruption.Pakistan Muslim League leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was convicted of corruption after being named in the so-called Panama Papers. That's a collection of leaked secret financial documents showing how some of the world's richest hide their money and involving a global law firm based in Panama. Sharif was disqualified by Pakistan's Supreme Court from holding office. The new prime minister is expected to be Sharif's brother Shahbaz Sharif after a vote for the new prime minister is held in Parliament on Monday."This would be the first time in Pakistan's history that a no-confidence vote succeeds in ousting a Prime Minister -- the fulfilment of a constitutional process that was far from guaranteed after Khan's attempts to derail the vote," said Elizabeth Threlkeld, Pakistan expert at the U.S.-based The Stimson Center. "That, in itself, is significant, and could give Pakistan something to build on going forward."___Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted in a no-confidence vote

<ul class="summary-list"><li>France remains furious with Australia and the US after being ditched from a submarine contract.</li><li>President <keyword id="12143951" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="macron" source="Orion">Macron</keyword> wants to delay an EU-Australia trade deal and EU-US talks in response, reports said.</li><li>Other nations have been taken aback at the intensity of the French response to losing the deal.</li></ul>In the days since France discovered it was being ditched from a multi-billion deal with Australia to build its new fleet of <keyword id="12116926" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="submarines" source="Orion">submarines</keyword>, its anger has only grown.The latest sign was a series of reports that French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to derail a planned EU-Australia trade deal to show its displeasure.France is also said to be trying to have talks canceled between the EU and US next week.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/france-seeks-delay-eu-australia-trade-deal-amid-aukus-fallout">The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-australia-trade-deal-runs-aground-over-submarine-furor/">Politico</a> said that France was seeking support from other EU member states to push back on its behalf in the negotiations.The move was explicit retaliation for Australia dropping France from the $50 billion deal to replace its ageing submarines, announcing it would do so with help instead from the US and UK in a new alliance called AUKUS.The deal infuriated French officials, who said they had been given no warning of the announcement, accusing Australia of a "stab in the back" and of lying to them.France is also seeking retaliation against the US, whose decision to share secretive submarine technology with Australia helped to scupper the French deal, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b336fac8-ce36-44b8-8a30-022c5d20a926">the Financial Times reported</a>.An EU diplomat said France had requested to postpone EU-US talks which are planned for September 29 as part of the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_2990">joint Trade and Technology Council</a>.The official said other EU countries were reluctant to scupper important talks and would rather "help" France by other means. A European Commission official told the paper they were "analyzing the consequences of the AUKUS announcement" on the timing of the meeting. President Joe Biden is said to be seeking a phone call with Macron to make amends, per reports from outlets including <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fpolitics%2fbiden-macron-france-diplomatic-spat%2f2021%2f09%2f19%2f5851151e-18cc-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/573021-biden-seeks-phone-call-with-frances-macron-amid-submarine-spat">The Hill</a>.But Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison appeared less conciliatory, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-pm-says-no-opportunity-meeting-with-french-president-new-york-2021-09-21/">saying he would not have time to meet privately with Macron</a> while both leaders are in New York for the UN General Assembly."Keeping one's word is the condition of trust between democracies and between allies," France's European affairs secretary Clément Beaune told Politico of the rift."So it is unthinkable to move forward on trade negotiations as if nothing had happened with a country in which we no longer trust."Talks between Australia and the EU have been <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/australia/index_en.htm">hashing out the terms of a free-trade agreement since 2018,</a> and the twelfth round of negotiations are due <a href="https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2276">within months</a>.Australia <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-australia-trade-deal-runs-aground-over-submarine-furor/">is said to have hoped</a> to conclude negotiations by the end of this year.As one of the EU's most powerful member states, France could try to stop the deal in its tracks, but it remains to be seen whether Macron will garner enough support from other European countries.Bernard Lange, chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/australian-trade-min-seeks-french-meeting-confident-subs-row-wont-derail-eu-2021-09-20/">said trade talks were now "much more complicated."</a>Australia's trade minister Dan Tehan meanwhile insisted that the rupture in relations with France would not affect the outcome of the trade deal."It's just very much business as usual when it comes to our negotiations on that free trade agreement," he told Sky News Australia, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/australian-trade-min-seeks-french-meeting-confident-subs-row-wont-derail-eu-2021-09-20/">per Reuters</a>.The EU has condemned Australia's behavior and said it was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-foreign-ministers-discuss-submarine-dispute-monday-2021-09-20/">"surprised" by the abrupt cancellation</a>, but anger in other parts of Europe has been nowhere near the French level of fury.

France is escalating its disputes with Australia and the US, seeking to derail EU trade talks with both after being dumped from a submarine contract

More than 24 people were killed and 25 injured after two trains, Kamayani Express and Janata Express, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=derail">derailed</a> while crossing a bridge over swollen Machal river in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=madhya+pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>. 
 
The incident happened at 11.30 pm on Tuesday when seven coaches of Kamayani Express, bound for Varanasi, and five bogies of Janata Express, bound for Mumbai, were crossing the bridge in Harda, some 160 km from Bhopal. 
 
The toll is expected to go further up. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=indian+railways">Railways</a> has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the families of the deceased, Rs 50,000 to grievously injured and Rs 25,000 to those with minor injuries. 
 
Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=shivraj+singh+chouhan">Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan</a> will visit the site later in the day. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Nitish+Kumar">Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar</a> also condoled the deaths. 
 
"Seven bogies of Kamayani Express and engine plus three coaches of Janata Express were derailed between Khirkiya and Bhirangi stations near Harda. The mishap took place around 11.30 PM on Tuesday as base material of the tracks got washed away in heavy rains. Nearly 25 passengers suffered injuries," West Central Railway PRO Piyush Mathur told news agency PTI. 
 
Search operations have been launched and few coaches also fell in the river. Bhopal Railway PRO told PTI that more than 250 passengers were rescued so far. 
 
Meanwhile, Minister of State of Railways Ministry Manoj Sinha said it was not a manmade disaster but a natural calamity. 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=prime+minister+narendra+modi">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</a> expressed sadness over the incident. 
 
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		The two train accidents in Madhya Pradesh are deeply distressing. Deeply pained over the loss of lives. Condolences to families of deceased.
	— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/628751209222922241">August 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
 <keyword id="2985510" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Railways-Minister-Suresh-Prabhu">Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu</keyword> will make a detailed statement in the Parliament about the incident. 
 
 
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		Enquiry ordered,Ex gratia to be paid immediately.Flooding of tracks due to very heavy downpour.Will make detailed statement to parliament
	— Suresh Prabhu (@sureshpprabhu) <a href="https://twitter.com/sureshpprabhu/status/628751337094647808">August 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
The Railways has set up helpline numbers: Harda- 09752460088, Bhopal- 07554061609, Bina- 075802222, Itarsi- 0758422419200, Itarsi - 07572 241920, Danapur - 06115 232398, Varanasi - 0542 2504221, 2503814, Patna- 06122 206967.

Flash floods derail two trains in MP, over 24 dead, 25 injured

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Johnson's COVID planning was "derailed" when <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword> asked the UK to "join a bombing campaign."</li><li><keyword id="7921033" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dominic-Cummings">Dominic Cummings</keyword>, Johnson's former chief advisor, recounted the story to members of the parliament.</li><li>"National-security people came in and said Trump wants us to join a bombing campaign in the <keyword id="30350" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Middle-East">Middle East</keyword> tonight."</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump "derailed" the UK government's coronavirus planning at a crucial moment in March last year after he asked the UK to "join a bombing campaign in the Middle East," members of the UK parliament have been told.Dominic Cummings, the former chief advisor to Prime Minister <keyword id="6380867" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</keyword>, said Wednesday that ministers and key aides had been forced to delay COVID-19 meetings on a key day in March after "national security people " arrived on Downing Street and announced that "Trump wants us to join a bombing campaign in the Middle East tonight."Cummings, who left Downing Street after an acrimonious fallout with the prime minister, recounted the day <a href="https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d919fbc9-72ca-42de-9b44-c0bf53a7360b">during evidence to the Science and Technology Committee as it reviews the UK's coronavirus response</a>.The prime minister had been scheduled on March 12 to convene in the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, the government's emergency response committee known as COBRA, to discuss potential measures to try and contain the coronavirus, which was in the early stages of spreading across the country, he said.Cummings added: "So everything to do with COBRA that day on COVID was completely disrupted because you had these two parallel sets of meetings. You had the national-security people running in and out, talking about, are we going to bomb the Middle East? And we had the COVID meeting being delayed, trying to figure out, are we going to do household quarantine?"Cummings said Trump on March 12 wanted the UK to join a bombing campaign in Iraq, but the UK government declined to participate. The Pentagon on March 12 confirmed that the<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/us-launch-airstrike-iraq-retaliation-rocket-attack-killed-three-britain"> US carried out airstrikes on weapons facilities</a> run by an Iranian-backed militia after a rocket attack killed two US soldiers and one British soldier near Baghdad.Eventually, Johnson would announce on March 15 that people should practice social distancing, but he would later be criticized for failing to introduce stricter measures, including the cancelation of mass sports events and the closure of pubs and restaurants.Cummings said that key aides and scientific advisors gradually realized that the government's "plan A" would result in up to 500,000 deaths, forcing them to change approach later in March and introduce a national lockdown.The UK has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls per capita in the world, with more than 125,000 having died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths">according to government figures</a>.

Trump 'derailed' Boris Johnson's coronavirus planning by demanding the UK join a 'bombing campaign in the Middle East,' says former aide to PM

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters / Toby MelvilleBritain's Prime Minister Theresa May replies to questions after speaking at the Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) annual conference in London, Britain, November 19, 2018.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Theresa May heads to Brussels on Wednesday evening in a frantic attempt to wrap up the final details of her Brexit deal.</li><li>Negotiators are trying to finalise a document which lays out aspirations for the future UK-EU relationship, but it's proving more difficult than expected.</li><li>A planned EU summit on Sunday could be cancelled because both sides still haven't reached a breakthrough on crucial future relationship issues like fishing and Gibraltar, according to reports.</li></ul>LONDON - Theresa May will head to Brussels for the second time this week Saturday with the hope of winning agreement for the final text of her Brexit deal. Negotiators have already agreed on the 585-page text of the divorce deal, formally called the Withdrawal Agreement, which covers thorny issues like the size of the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>'s exit payment and the Irish backstop mechanism.Attention is now on wrapping up the final text of the so-called political declaration, a much shorter document which will detail the UK and EU's aspirations for their future relationship. Unlike the withdrawal deal, it won't be legally binding but it will act as an important statement of intent from both sides.However, some issues which the political declaration covers are proving to be more difficult to resolve than negotiators had anticipated, with <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/eu-raises-doubts-over-brexit-summit-as-may-holds-brussels-talks">reports</a> on Wednesday afternoon that a planned EU summit for Sunday could be cancelled due to a lack of progress on issues connected to the UK's future relationship.That could spell disaster for Theresa May. She had hoped to wrap up all details of the deal so that EU leaders could sign off her deal at the planned summit on Sunday. Here are the key issues which are holding back talks.<h2>1. Gibraltar</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty / Pablo Blazquez DominguezThe Rock of Gibraltar stands behind La Linea de la Concepcion city on April 4, 2017 in Spain. Tensions have risen over Brexit negotiations for the Rock of Gibraltar.</div></div></div>The tiny territory of Gibraltar poses an outsized problem for Brexit negotiators. The rocky outpost on the southern tip of Spain has been a British territory for three centuries, and its service-based economy relies heavily on the free flow of workers across the border from Spain, which account for around half its workforce.Gibraltar is a self-governing territory with 34,000 residents, most of whom are British citizens and 97% of whom voted to remain in the European Union in 2016. Equally, Gibraltar is physically connected to Spain and mainland Europe and has close links with Spain, which frequently challenges the UK's legal claim to the territory.The UK would be happy enough not to discuss the future of detail in too much detail in the political declaration. But Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said Spain will reject the draft Brexit deal without a clarification of the text on the status of Gibraltar. "As things stand today if there are no changes regarding Gibraltar, Spain will vote no on Brexit," said Sánchez on Tuesday.Article 184 of the draft Brexit deal says the UK and EU will "negotiate rapidly the agreements governing their future relationship" during the transition period from March next year. But Spain wants much more clarity than that and insists it should be able to negotiate the future of Gibraltar bilaterally with the UK. A European Commission spokesperson <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46267684">this week</a> re-stated the EU's pledge that no Brexit agreement between the UK and EU could apply to Gibraltar without the agreement of Spain and the UK. It's a big issue which needs to be resolved quickly.<h2>2. Fishing</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">GettyFishing boats protest</div></div></div>Fishing is a highly contested area between the UK and EU. Britain wants the political declaration to declare that Britain is an "independent coastal state" which will negotiate EU access to its waters on an annual basis. However, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium want the language to state that continuing current arrangements for fishing access will be a precondition of a full UK-EU trade deal across all sectors. Quota shares of fish are currently allocated according to a formula, to the anger of British fisherman who say that fishing vessels from elsewhere in the EU have too much access to British waters. <h2>3. Future trade<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters / Francois WalschaertsThe European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier looks on at the start of the EU Commission's weekly college meeting in Brussels, Belgium, November 21, 2018</div></div></div></h2>Above all, Theresa May sees the political declaration as an essential tool in the bid to sell her Brexit deal to sceptical Tory MPs. To that end, she wants to include some particularly ambitious language on the future trade relationship. That provision could, she calculates, persuade her colleagues that the controversial "backstop" plan to avoid a hard border in Ireland will never be needed.But countries including Germany, France and other close trading partners of the UK oppose any language which will raise false hopes that the UK could negotiate single market membership for goods, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/03bd0a1e-ed67-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0">the Financial Times reported</a>. The EU has repeatedly rejected such proposals as seeking to "cherry pick" elements of the single market as part of May's so-called Chequers plan for leaving the EU. They will resist any attempt by May to leave the door open for this to go ahead in future talks.Our Brexit Insider Facebook group is the best place for up-to-date news and analysis about Britain's departure from the EU, direct from Business Insider's political reporters. Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/267178180471848/">here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/obama-barack-michelle-make-spend-money-net-worth-2018-10">The Obamas are worth $40 million - here's how they make and spend their money</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomson ReutersUnion Jack, the Gibraltarian flag and the EU flag are seen flying, at the border of Gibraltar with Spain</div></div></div><ul><li>Britain and the EU agreed the terms of a Brexit transition deal on Monday.</li><li>Spain is threatening to block it unless Britain backs down on Gibraltar.</li><li>The Spanish government wants a veto on Gibraltar - a British overseas territory on the southern coast of Spain - staying in the single market and customs union during transition.</li><li>The EU must convince Spain to change its mind by Friday.</li></ul> LONDON - The Brexit transition deal agreed this week by UK and EU negotiators has been thrown into fresh doubt by the Spanish government's refusal to give its backing over the status of Gibraltar.The deal - agreed earlier this week by UK Brexit Secretary David Davis and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier - is supposed to be signed off by the EU27 at a European Council summit in Brussels this week.However, Spain is reluctant to approve the updated Withdrawal Agreement unless it is given a veto on Gibraltar remaining in the single market and customs union during the 20-month transition, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/20/spain-refuses-to-back-withdrawal-deal-over-gibraltar-concerns?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&amp;utm_campaign=0aadb17ca5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_10959edeb5-0aadb17ca5-190121793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian reports</a>.Gibraltar is on the southern coast of Spain with a population of around 30,000. It has been a British territory for over three centuries and voted overwhelmingly to stay in the European Union, with 96% of voters backing Remain.<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/gibraltar-faces-the-existential-threat-of-a-hard-brexit-with-no-transition-deal-2017-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Towards the end of last year</a>, Brussels said that the Spanish government must agree to Gibraltar being involved in any future trade deal between the UK and EU after Brexit before it can be signed off.There was concern in Madrid this week after Davis said Gibraltar would automatically be included in the UK-EU transition deal, meaning it would stay in the single market and customs union without Spain's permission.Asked whether the transition covered Gibraltar, Davis said: "Yes, it does cover Gibraltar. That is our view of it."EU officials are reportedly confident that Spain can be convinced to support the Withdrawal Agreement in time for the Council summit, which takes place in Brussels tomorrow and Friday.Any hold-up could push the deal back to summer, leaving British business in a severe state of limbo and UK government with just half a year to negotiate the future relationship before the deal is sent off for parliamentary approval.Gibraltar's Prime Minister, Fabian Picardo, has previously claimed that a hard Brexit - ie leaving the single market with no transitional apparatus in place - would pose an "existential threat" to the territory because of its economic dependency on Britain's membership of the EU's internal market.<h2>Why is Gibraltar so important?</h2>The overwhelming majority of Gibraltans want to remain part of Britain. Spain is yet to fully abandon its hope of regaining at least some control over the territory which it lost to British-Dutch forces in the early 18th century.Speaking after the June Brexit vote, Spain's former foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said he hoped that to seeing the "Spanish flag on the rock [Gilbraltar]" was "much closer" to becoming reality.Both the British and Gibraltar governments have consistently rejected both the possibility of Gibraltar being shared with or returned to Spain. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/journalist-vegas-tenold-investigated-neo-nazis-for-six-years-2018-3">Neo-Nazi groups let a journalist in their meetings and rallies - here's what he saw</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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