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The overall group declared a dividend to its owner, the sheikhdom’s sovereign wealth fund known as the Investment Corporation of Dubai, of $1 billion.

However, a massive storm forecasters had been warning about for days blew through the country’s seven sheikhdoms.

Schools across the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, largely shut ahead of the storm and government employees were largely working remotely if able.

The UAE, an autocratic federation of seven hereditarily ruled sheikhdoms, has signs of that risk.

The temple nods back in its seven spires, the number of sheikhdoms in this autocratic federation on the Arabian Peninsula.