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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.

Aramco net income $28bn

Capital investment during Q3 2025 $12.9bn on investments in energy projects.

e& revenue up 23%

Consolidated net profit reached $2.94 billion during 2025.

WHO urges limiting trans fat across the world

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said on Monday that nearly half the world's population was now covered by solid...

Business

Education campaigners alarmed as homeschooling rises in England

LONDON, UK - Education campaigners demanded government action on Friday after new figures revealed that the number of children in England...

Geostrategy
Economy

Tunisia allots $10.4m to ‘social and solidarity economy’

Tunisia has devoted a budget of 30 MD ($10.4m) to the social and solidarity economy for the next three years.
  • Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Nasreddine Nsibi said this during a seminar
  • The Minister stressed that the social and solidarity economy will allow the creation of new jobs
Arts & Culture

Forward-looking UAE museum looks into the future

The Museum of the Future along Dubai's main highway has been touted as the 'world's most beautiful building'.
  • Its organizers have said the visitors will be taken “on a journey of the year 2071”.
  • Many believe the Museum of the Future is UAE’s one more attempt to boost its soft power as a trading and tourism hub and to diversify its economy away from oil.
Business

Saudi Arabia and UAE drive real estate growth in the region

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are driving the real estate market in the Middle East region with the backing of...
  • Kingdom’s residential real estate prices increased by 1.7 percent on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of 2021
  • Apartment values in Riyadh and Jeddah accelerated by 17 percent and 12 percent, respectively, in the last 12 months
Arts & Culture

Fewer Afghan women return to universities

Afghanistan's main universities reopened Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned...
  • The Taliban insist they will allow girls and women to be educated this time around -- but only in segregated classes and according to an Islamic curriculum
  • Taliban guards refused journalists access to the sprawling campus and chased away media teams lingering near the entrance
Business

Qatar rolls out new Covid policy for travelers

The Ministry stated that Qatar's Travel and Return Policy has been a key measure in the nation's COVID-19 strategy.
  • The new changes are a result of a fall in Covid cases in Qatar due to successful rollout of Qatar’s National Covid-19 Vaccination Program
  • Qatar citizens and residents are not required to bring PCR test before returning to Qatar, regardless of the departure country
Arts & Culture

Iraq unveils restoration at ancient city ravaged by IS

Three monumental sculptures in the ancient city of Hatra were restored after being vandalized by the Islamic State group during...
  • A Roman-style sculpture of a life-size figure and a series of reliefs of faces on the side of the great temple were among the restored pieces shown off to journalists.
  • The restoration work at Hatra is being carried out by Iraqi experts in collaboration with Italy's International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies.
Arts & Culture

Art Dubai 2022 embraces digital art, NFTs

Art Dubai 2022, the art fair's largest edition and one of the few major international art events to take place,...
  • This year's event is unique as it will demonstrate that Dubai has become a big part of the discussion about modern art.
  • Dubai is a global crypto hub with a diverse group of collectors and entrepreneurs.
Business

ICESCO to cooperate with Qatari institutions and authorities

The Director-General of ICESCO Salim bin Mohammed Al-Malik met with Ambassador of Qatar to Morocco Sheikh Abdullah bin Thamer
  • During the meeting, they discussed ways to enhance the distinguished relations of cooperation between ICESCO and Qatar
  • The officials also reviewed aspects of the success achieved during the celebration of Doha, Capital of Culture of the Islamic World 2021
Arts & Culture

US restricts import of Afghan cultural items to prevent ‘pillage’

The decree implemented on an "emergency" basis took effect on Friday based on a 'request' of a former government of...
  • US has imposed restriction on importing ceramics, paintings, glass, ivory, ancient textiles, tiles and wood pieces from Afghanistan
  • This regulation on import could be troublesome for collectors or curators who already have items on their way to the US
Science

UAE sees climate action as catalyst of economic prosperity

UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and UAE Special Envoy for Climate, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has said that...
  • The minister noted the need to increase investments in agri-tech and leverage best practices that safeguard vulnerable nations' food and water security
  • He was speaking at the Munich Security Conference titled "Scaling Up Climate Action" where he reiterated the UAE's support for robust climate finance

WHO urges limiting trans fat across the world

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said on Monday that nearly half the world's population was now covered by solid...
Business

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Cash rich Saudi football league ‘changed market’, says English club

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said on Saturday that the Saudi Pro League had "completely changed the...
Arts & Culture

French footballer Maximin quits Newcastle, may join Saudi club

LONDON, UK - Allan Saint-Maximin has confirmed he is to leave Newcastle before an expected move to the cash-rich Saudi Pro...
Business

Library battles on to restore Palestinian history

The library has continued to preserve cultural heritage in Jerusalem through their restoration and digitisation, with support from local and...
Arts & Culture

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Iran’s Zoroastrians keep ancient, sacred flame burning

They venerate fire as a supreme form of purity. Alongside water, air and earth, the elements must not be contaminated...
  • The fragrant holy fire, kept in a large bronze goblet, "has been burning for more than 1,500 years", said Simin, a tour guide welcoming visitors to the Zoroastrian fire temple
  • Zoroastrianism dates back some 3,500 years, but centuries of persecution have dwindled its numbers and a fast-changing modern world has left it struggling to adjust
Geostrategy

Dutch museum exhibit on Egypt causes anger in North African country

LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS - In a Dutch museum the sound of hip-hop blares out next to sarcophagi and statues, in what curators...
  • Egypt's antiquities service said the museum is "falsifying history" with its "Afrocentric" approach, which seeks to appropriate Egyptian culture.
  • The museum said there had been a "commotion about this exhibition, because it shows Egyptian culture through the eyes of artists with African roots."

Iran’s ancient ‘wind catchers’ beat the heat naturally

The wind catchers, called badgirs in Persian, are just one of the engineering marvels inhabitants have developed in this ancient...
  • Oldest of the city's 700 wind catchers dates back to the 14th century, but the architectural feature is believed to date back as far as 2,500 years when the Persian Empire ruled
  • UNESCO listed Yazd as a World Heritage Site in 2017, describing the city as a "living testimony to intelligent use of limited available resources in the desert for survival"