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Alujain widens 2025 loss

The increase in loss is due to impairment charges, weaker prices.

Masar 2025 net profit $262m

Higher land plot sales boost revenue and operating income.

Tasnee’s 2025 losses deepen

The petrochemicals' company's revenue also fell 17.7 percent.

DP World 2025 revenue $24.4bn

The profit for the year up 32.2% to reach $1.96bn.

BYD 2025 revenue surges

The EV manufacturer reported net profit of $.3.3bn for 9M 2025.
  • Rich heritage buried under Gaza Strip

    In January, workers at a construction site stumbled upon a Roman necropolis dating from about 2,000 years ago.

    After the last war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021 left a trail of damage in Gaza, Egypt began a reconstruction initiative worth $500 million.

    Authorities periodically announce discoveries in the territory, but tourism at archaeological sites is limited.

  • Turkey’s banned musicians sing the blues in run-up to 2023 vote

    Artists fear that the fun is being drained out of Turkey to flatter the conservative Islamic core of Erdogan's eroding...

    Artists fear that the fun is being drained out of Turkey to flatter the conservative Islamic core of Erdogan's eroding support

    The conservatives' resurgent cultural influence under Erdogan is most vividly visible on the Turkish music scene

  • Dubai eateries earn Middle East’s first Michelin stars

    Created in 1900 by the brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin of the tyre company Michelin for motorists, the guide has...

    Two restaurants were given two-star ratings, another nine gained one star and 14 received the Bib Gourmand for value-for-money gourmet fare.

    Sixty-nine restaurants serving 21 types of cuisine were listed, including Italian, Japanese, Arabic, French and Indian.

  • Scientific session organized by Islamic Forum begins in Sharjah

    The twenty-second scientific session organized by the Islamic Forum kicked off at Al Maghfirah Mosque, Sharjah. Dubbed "The Migration Route",...

    Dubbed "The Migration Route", the session is running between 18th and 30th June.

    More than 600 participants from inside and outside the country joined the program.

  • Sharjah, Hungary discuss cooperation in cultural field

    A high-level Sharjah's Department of Government Relations delegation was in Hungary to discuss mutual investment opportunities and outline ways to...

    Chairman of Sharjah's Department of Government Relations expresses his admiration for the Liget Budapest project

    The project aims to renew Budapest’s most iconic public park while fully respecting its 200-year-old heritage

  • Israeli maestro woos fans in off-limits Iran

    Eliyahu's ethereal music, partly inspired by his Jewish roots from the Dagestan region of the Caucasus, is gaining recognition in...

    Eliyahu's ethereal music, partly inspired by his Jewish roots from the Dagestan region of the Caucasus, is gaining recognition in Israel

    Despite the bitter hostility between the Israeli government and Tehran, he also has a growing following among Iranians

  • Saudi youth excel in event management in Jeddah Season

    Saudi youth make their mark in event management during Jeddah Season where they comprise over 80 percent of the workforce...

    Saudi youth are over 80 percent of the workforce in event management in Jeddah Season

    Saudi youth demonstrate their ability and success to manage and organize events

  • A ballet with machines: Is Artificial Intelligence the future of art?

    To many they are art's next big thing -- digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink...

    The field has begun to attract huge interest among art collectors -- and even bigger price tags at auction.

    Artists in Germany and the United States blazed a trail in computer-generated art during the 1960s.

  • ‘Stan Lee Super Con’ exhibition begins in Jeddah, woos fans of superheroes

    The activities of the 'Stan Lee Super Con 2022' exhibition begins in Jeddah Superdome in the presence of a number...

    'Stan Lee Super Con 2022' exhibition kicks off in Jeddah Superdome in the presence of a number of Hollywood stars

    There was a large turnout on the first day from fans of international comic characters and visitors

  • Turkish site holds secrets to dawn of civilization

    On a sun-blasted hillside in southeast Turkey, the world's oldest known religious sanctuary is slowly giving up its secrets.

    Thousands of our prehistoric ancestors gathered around its highly-decorated T-shaped megalith pillars to worship 7,000 years before Stonehenge or the earliest Egyptian pyramids

    Academics believe the history of human settlement began in these hills close to the Syrian border some 12,000 years ago

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