A roundup of top stories from the Gulf in the past 24 hours.

Hiring foreigners who are mothers of Saudi men and women as well as children of Saudi women will be allowed in professions which are restricted only to Saudis.

• MINISTRY RESTRUCTURING: The Ministry of Justice has begun restructuring judicial services in the Kingdom’s general courts, starting with Riyadh where the waiting time for random access to judges has been reduced by up to 90 percent.

• MECCA CRANE COLLAPSE: Victims of the 2015 Mecca crane crash will not get any blood money, the Summary Court in Makkah has ruled.

UAE:
• STOLEN FERRARI: Less than 24 hours after a Ferrari was stolen from a hotel in Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, the car worth Dh1.2 million was recovered by police.

• TRAVEL WARNING: The UAE Embassy in Tokyo has issued a warning to residents living or travelling to Japan ahead of Sunday’s super typhoon, urging them to register with the mission to account for their whereabouts.

• SMART POLICE STATIONS: Dubai Police is to establish three smart police stations in major locations across the Dubai Design District, Dubai International Academic City, as well as in the vicinity of Dubai Media City, Dubai Internet City and Dubai Knowledge Park.

KUWAIT:
• GCC SUMMIT: Kuwait has reportedly called for postponing the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit scheduled in December. Saudi daily Okaz cited sources as saying that the GCC summit would be postponed by six months

BAHRAIN:
• FOCUS MORE ON ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION: Top ministers and government officials shared their thoughts and ideas about the progress and development of Bahrain in recent years during the Government Forum 2017. “Bahrain’s government has always looked at the ways of diversification of the economy. Now we have to focus on it even more because of the circumstances we are facing because of the instability of the oil prices. Therefore income should be diversified, we have placed programmes for this and we hope to achieve them,” said Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa.

source: Alarabiya