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Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.

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.

Healthcare experts must keep up with tech innovations

She emphasizes the significant impact of technology on the healthcare sector and highlighted the 'Let's Talk Innovation' Symposium's focus on...

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25,000 fragments of early Islamic era artifacts discovered in Saudi

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- As many as 25,000 fragments of artifacts dating from the early Islamic era, the first two...

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Curtain falls on Saudi’s first major film festival

The event, where 138 films were screened from 67 countries, was organized four years after the kingdom lifted a decades-old...
  • The festival opened a day after Jeddah hosted its first Formula One Grand Prix, also an attempt to portray Saudi Arabia in a different light
  • The rise of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in 2017 has ushered in a number of reforms
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Abu Hamdan sets sights on Jordanian underworld

'Boomah (Owl)' is based on research that has been carried out by Abu Hamdan into three female ‘thugs’ who shook...
  • Abu Hamdan has been awarded a $100,000 production grant by the Red Sea Lodge.
  • In total, 12 projects were selected to take part in the Red Sea Lodge, including six from Saudi Arabia and six from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Lebanon.
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Verstappen ecstatic at ‘unbelievable’ last-lap Formula One win

An emotional Max Verstappen described his journey to 2021 Formula One world champion as "insane" after he beat rival Lewis...
  • The race marked the end of an epic contest with seven-time champion Hamilton which has seen the two tangle on the track and off it.
  • Verstappen and Hamilton went into the last race level on points and it appeared that the Mercedes driver was going to hang on to win an eighth world title.
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Proposed bill in Iran looks to ban pets including cats, dogs

The animals that may be banned under the proposed law include 'crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards, cats, mice, rabbits, dogs and...
  • A total of 75 MPs of the Irani parliament have signed a proposed legislation that prohibits pet animals
  • Offenders of this new law would be fined by $98, which is equal to 10 to 30 times of minimum monthly working wage
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First ever Riyadh Philosophy conference launched

CEO of the Ministry of Culture’s Commission for Literature, Publishing and Translation Dr Mohammed Hasan Alwan opened the conference.
  • CEO of the Ministry of Culture’s Commission for Literature, Publishing and Translation Dr Mohammed Hasan Alwan opened the conference
  • He said that the event is intended to become annual, and marks the “start of Riyadh’s emergence as a major global center of philosophy”.
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Morocco state schools fail students, deepen inequality

The High Council for Education has said that government schools "are not giving the majority of pupils basic skills or...
  • The situation has pushed many, including middle-class families, to tighten their belts so they can scrape together fees for private schools.
  • Just nine percent of students in state secondary schools pass exams in French, Arabic and mathematics
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Mesopotamian Epic comes home to Iraq

A 3,500-year-old tablet featuring the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh has been returned to Iraq three decades after it was stolen...
  • The tablet was exhibited to the media in Iraq on Tuesday by the authorities who welcomed its return as a "victory" over those who stole the country's "history"
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh is considered one of the oldest pieces of literature in the world, telling the story of a Mesopotamian king on a quest for immortality
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UAE launches AED50 banknote to mark Golden Jubilee

The new issue is the first banknote made of polymer material to be circulated in the UAE. Polymer banknotes are...
  • The initiative comes in honor of the founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
  • It also honors the first generation of rulers of the emirates, as well as their role in uniting the country
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Baghdad revives its art and theater culture

Baghdad is back to that time when it was known as one of the artistic capitals of the Arab world.
  • Organizer of “I am an Iraqi, I Read” event gave away 30,000 books for free
  • Audience overflowed from the hall on the opening nights of international theater festival in Baghdad
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Incomplete Saddam-era marquee mosque lays bare Iraq divisions

It was meant to compete with the Taj Mahal in grandeur, but former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's monumental Al-Rahman Mosque...
  • Launched in the 1990s amid a crippling Western embargo over Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, the construction of the mosque was designed to be a snub to Washington.
  • The structure is symbol of division between Shiites, now the dominant political force in Baghdad after decades of marginalization in the Shiite-majority Arab state.

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Jordanian-Saudi royal wedding marks historic union

The couple exchanged their vows in a traditional Muslim wedding ceremony called "katb al-ketab" in an open-air gazebo adorned with...
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‘UAE is laboratory of past, present and future’

"Aside from the obvious things - the construction of museums and large collections - it seems to me that the...
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Abu Dhabi event transforms global falconry

The exhibition has become a popular platform for falconers to purchase elite captive-bred falcons from local and international farms.
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Watch owned by China’s last emperor sells for $5m

Emperor Aisin-Gioro Puyi had brought the watch with him to a Soviet prison camp where he was brought after the...
  • Emperor at the age of two in 1908, Puyi was immortalised by Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning film but left a mixed legacy.
  • A Patek Philippe "Grandmaster Chime" sold for $31 million in 2019. It is said to be the most complex timepiece the luxury watchmaker has ever created, with 20 complications.
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Iraq artist battles to save old boating tradition

The elegant water craft have long been vastly outnumbered by modern, motorised vessels and are threatened further as Iraq's waterways...
  • Iraq must save "from extinction an essential facet of our civilisation which has existed for four or five millenia", said Salim, co-founder of Safina Projects
  • The flotilla on the Tigris in Baghdad was a landmark event in Salim's efforts -- 18 of the boats took to the water on a spring afternoon as part of a cultural festival

Omani novelist’s book on water wins top Arabic fiction prize

Alqasmi, who has published four novels and 10 poetry collections, is the first Omani winner of the prize, now in...
  • Alqasmi, 49, will receive $50,000, and the prize committee will provide funding to translate "The Water Diviner" into English, organisers of the awards said
  • In an interview for the prize's website, Alqasmi said the book had an additional focus: "on how women also caused changes in the life of the main protagonist"