Gulf's decades-long strategy of sporting investment rocked by Mideast war

The Gulf countries have invested vast sums of money in bringing global sporting events to their shores as they try to diversify their hydrocarbon-dependant economies and improve their images abroad. But weeks of repeated drone and missile attacks from Iran, in retaliation against ongoing US-Israeli bombing, have put paid to that strategy, for now at least. Since the start of war in February, dozens of events due to be held in the Gulf have been cancelled or postponed. They include football's "Finalissima"...