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After losing millions in fake gold, Dubai ruler loses wife

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. His second wife has fled Dubai, taking the couple’s two children and some £31 million. [Joshua Agwanda, Standard]

A United Arab Emirates royalty said to have been targeted by Kenyan gold scammers is caught up in a new storm: his wife has fled Dubai.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s ruler is reported by several foreign media outlets as being inconsolable after his second wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein fled, taking with her the couple’s two children, aged seven and 11.

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