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DAE net profit up 36.2%

Revenues grew by 9 percent to $1.42bn from $1.31bn in 2023.

Borouge 2024 net profit $1.24bn

The company said it will maintain a $1.3bn dividend for 2025.

ADQ, Orion to establish JV

The partners commit to deploying $1.2bn in the next four years.

Alpha Dhabi acquires interest in NCTH

The deal increases NCTH's portfolio to 8 hotels with 1,500 keys.

Meraas awards construction contract

The $272m contract has been awarded for Bluewaters Bay.

‘Numb’ New Orleans grapples with horror of deadly truck attack

New Orleans, United States - The celebratory atmosphere of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, long an American byword for indulgence and...
  • A deadly truck attack on New Year's crowds in New Orleans' French Quarter left at least 15 dead, shaking the heart of the city's famed Bourbon Street
  • Residents and visitors mourn the tragedy, calling for stricter security as New Orleans faces major upcoming events like Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl

Syria Foreign Minister in Saudi Arabia, hopes the visit opens ‘new, bright page’

Last week, in an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television, Sharaa said Saudi Arabia "will certainly have a large role...
  • Syrian state media said the top delegation had come to the kingdom "at the invitation of the Saudi foreign minister", quoting a foreign ministry source.
  • Saudi Arabia severed ties with Assad's government in 2012 and backed Syrian rebels seeking to overthrow him early in the country's civil war

UN: Israel’s strikes on Gaza hospitals may constitute war crimes, urges independent probe

The UN's 23-page report, "Attacks on Hospitals During the Escalation of Hostilities in Gaza," documented 136 strikes on 27 hospitals...
  • The world body's 23-page report, entitled "Attacks on hospitals during the escalation of hostilities in Gaza", looked at the period from October 7, 2023 to June 30, 2024
  • The report said attacks on hospitals typically involved missile strikes on hospital buildings, the destruction of facilities, shooting of civilians, and sieges.

Maysa Sabreen made first woman chief of Syrian central bank

Damascus, Syria -- Syrian authorities have appointed Maysa Sabreen as interim central bank governor, a bank official told AFP on Tuesday,...
  • Sabreen, a Syrian banking expert, held the position of first deputy governor since 2018. She has also served on the central bank's management committee.
  • Mohammed Issam Hazime, who headed the central bank before her, was appointed in 2021 under the rule of Bashar al-Assad.

South Korea’s Yoon: from star prosecutor to president facing arrest

Yoon is under investigation for his martial law declaration and faces criminal charges of insurrection, which could result in life...
  • Investigators sought an arrest warrant against Yoon which a court issued on Tuesday.
  • If arrested, Yoon would become the first S.Korean president detained before impeachment procedures

UN experts demand Israel face consequences for alleged Gaza war crimes and genocide claims

The experts called for urgent, independent and thorough investigations into alleged serious violations of international law, saying Israel's continued impunity...
  • Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed more than 45,500 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians
  • The experts highlighted alleged crimes against humanity committed by Israel "including murder, torture, sexual violence.'

Cambridge study warns of perils in AI-driven ‘intention economy’

London, United Kingdom -- Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon "covertly influence" users' decision making in a new commercial frontier...
  • The marketplace emerging for "digital signals of intent" could, in the near future, influence everything from buying movie tickets to voting for political candidates.
  • Our increasing familiarity with chatbots, digital tutors and other so-called "anthropomorphic" AI agents is helping enable this new array of "persuasive technologies".

Asia stocks mostly down after Wall St. losses

The "Santa Claus rally" got off to a good start but US stocks then fell across the board on Friday,...
  • S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both dropped more than one percent
  • Jeju Air shares tumbled more than eight percent after one of its planes crashed in South Korea

Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100

Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia -- the same small town...
  • Carter died "peacefully" at his home in Plains, "surrounded by his family," the Carter Center said in a statement
  • Carter was the longest-lived US president -- an outcome that seemed unlikely back in 2015 when the Southern Democrat revealed he had brain cancer

Indian workers replace Palestinians in Israel’s construction sector amid post-war labour void

Indians, long employed in Israel as caregivers, diamond traders, and IT professionals, are now increasingly recruited for the construction sector...
  • Israeli researchers believe the number of Indians working in construction still does not match the number of Palestinians who did so before the war
  • Before the Hamas attack, around 80,000 Palestinians were employed in construction, along with some 26,000 foreigners, Eyal Argov of the central Bank of Israel said

Trump condemned for ICC sanctions over Israel, US probes

The United Nations and the European Union also urged Trump on Friday to reverse the decision ordering asset freezes and...

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Israeli airstrike kills five Palestinians in West Bank

Palestinian medics said an air strike targeting a car in the occupied West Bank killed five people on Thursday, while...

Dubai roads, airport reel from floods after record rains

Power outages were reported around Dubai, which was dotted with flooded areas and submerged and abandoned cars. One road tunnel...

Heavy storms soak Gulf as Oman toll rises to 18

Flooding hit many areas of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, and cut off major roads, snarling traffic and...

Number of journalists killed on job in 2023 declines despite Gaza: RSF

In the first 11 months of 2023, 45 journalists were killed carrying out their work, down from 61 last year,...

Rescue efforts begin as at least 132 die, hundreds injured in Nepal quake

The quake was felt as far away as India's capital New Delhi, nearly 500 km from the epicentre, 42 km...

UN: Israel’s strikes on Gaza hospitals may constitute war crimes, urges independent probe

The UN's 23-page report, "Attacks on Hospitals During the Escalation of Hostilities in Gaza," documented 136 strikes on 27 hospitals...

Maysa Sabreen made first woman chief of Syrian central bank

Damascus, Syria -- Syrian authorities have appointed Maysa Sabreen as interim central bank governor, a bank official told AFP on Tuesday,...

South Korea’s Yoon: from star prosecutor to president facing arrest

Yoon is under investigation for his martial law declaration and faces criminal charges of insurrection, which could result in life...

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Cambridge study warns of perils in AI-driven ‘intention economy’

London, United Kingdom -- Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon "covertly influence" users' decision making in a new commercial frontier...
  • The marketplace emerging for "digital signals of intent" could, in the near future, influence everything from buying movie tickets to voting for political candidates.
  • Our increasing familiarity with chatbots, digital tutors and other so-called "anthropomorphic" AI agents is helping enable this new array of "persuasive technologies".

Asia stocks mostly down after Wall St. losses

The "Santa Claus rally" got off to a good start but US stocks then fell across the board on Friday,...
  • S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both dropped more than one percent
  • Jeju Air shares tumbled more than eight percent after one of its planes crashed in South Korea

Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100

Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia -- the same small town...
  • Carter died "peacefully" at his home in Plains, "surrounded by his family," the Carter Center said in a statement
  • Carter was the longest-lived US president -- an outcome that seemed unlikely back in 2015 when the Southern Democrat revealed he had brain cancer