Most stock markets in the Gulf fell in early trade on Monday, tracking oil prices lower, as concerns over China's faltering economic growth outweighed support from OPEC+ production cuts.
Qatar's stock market ended lower on Sunday as comments from two U.S. Federal Reserve officials curtailed investor optimism that the central bank is nearing the end of its aggressive interest rate hikes.
The U.S. on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" what it called human rights violations, abuses and "horrific violence" in Sudan during that country's two-month-old war, a State Department spokesperson said.
Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing boat sank nearby killing at least 78 people.