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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.

Hamas weakened, not crushed a year into war with Israel

The Palestinian group has not been crushed outright, and a year on from its unprecedented attack on Israel, an end...
  • In one of the biggest blows to the movement since it was founded in 1987 during the Palestinian intifada uprising, Hamas's leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran on July 31
  • On the Gaza battlefield, Israeli forces have aggressively pursued both Sinwar and Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, whom Israel says it killed in an air strike

World leaders gather at UN as Mideast tensions explode

Escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah threatened to overshadow US President Joe Biden's final appearance at the UN's signature annual...
  • UN Security Council member France called for an emergency meeting on the crisis engulfing the Middle East
  • Top diplomat of European Union Josep Borrell warned, "we are almost in a full-fledged war" about the Lebanon-Israel situation

Biden’s United States powerless as Israel pounds Lebanon

US President Joe Biden's top priorities for the past 11 months has been to prevent the Gaza war from spiraling...
  • Biden administration was presenting "concrete ideas" to provide an "off-ramp" to prevent further fighting at UN
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed aside warnings of the dangers of regional war

Iran’s president calls Israel warmonger as he seeks talks with West

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused Israel of seeking regional war, as he attempted to cast Tehran as restrained and...
  • President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at a media roundtable in New York on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meetings
  • "We know more than anyone else that if a larger war were to erupt in the Middle East, it would not benefit anyone."

Lebanon Under Attack: Israel murders 35 kids, death toll rises to 492 including 58 women

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the death toll in Israeli strikes Monday rose to 492, including 35 children, the...
  • Israeli attacks on Monday wounded 1,200 people who were treated in 27 hospitals
  • Iran's foreign ministry warns Israel of "dangerous consequences" following deadly strikes in Lebanon

UN alarmed as Israeli strikes kill more than 180 people in Lebanon

Lebanon's health ministry said more than 700 were injured on Monday in the worst toll by far in nearly a...
  • Iran's foreign ministry warned Israel on Monday of "dangerous consequences" following deadly strikes in Lebanon
  • "We are extremely concerned, deeply worried about the escalation in Lebanon," says top UN official

Israel army tells Lebanese to ‘move away’ from Hezbollah sites

The Israeli military on Monday told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out...
  • Israel and Hezbollah threatened on Sunday to escalate their cross-border attacks
  • Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said the group was in a "new phase" in its battle against Israel

United by innovation and progress: The enduring US-UAE partnership

‘’In close partnership, we are working to advance multilateral diplomatic solutions and provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance in Gaza and...
  • 'Our ongoing defense and counterterrorism cooperation makes our countries and the world more secure.'
  • 'US and UAE troops have stood shoulder to shoulder in six conflicts over the last 30 years;'

Iran arrests 12 accused of collaborating with Israel

Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of 12 people accused of "collaborating" with the country's arch-foe Israel, local media reported...
  • Revolutionary Guards "arrested 12 collaborators with the Zionist regime (Israel) in six provinces" of the Islamic Republic
  • Iran has enhanced efforts to build relations with its Arab neighbors by holding talks with Arab leaders at the United Nations

Egypt fears ‘all out’ regional war, says foreign minister

Egypt's foreign minister Sunday warned of the risk of an all-out regional war in light of intensified fighting between Israel...
  • World powers on Sunday implored Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement to refrain from escalating their conflict
  • "There is great concern about... the possibility of an escalation in the region leading to an all-out regional war," says Egyptian FM

Lavrov, Rubio pledge to restore dialogue and work on settling Ukraine conflict, says Moscow

The call came ahead of an expected summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin amid mounting concern from Ukraine and...

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Israeli strikes hit Yemen as Netanyahu fires warning

Israeli air strikes pummeled Sanaa's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, with Huthi rebel media reporting six...

Syrian war monitor says 17 dead in clashes in Tartus province

17 people were killed Wednesday in clashes in Tartus province after security forces sought to arrest an officer under deposed...

Ceasefire talks falter as Hamas, Israel clash over conditions, Gaza sees more destruction and deaths

Hamas accuses Israel of stalling the truce with new demands on troop withdrawal and prisoner release, while Netanyahu’s office counters,...

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Israeli army says intercepted missile from Yemen before it entered Israeli territory

Jerusalem, Undefined - The Israeli army said Wednesday it intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the country from Yemen.Air raid sirens...
  • Air raid sirens sounded over a wide swathe of central Israel as a precaution against falling debris, but the army said it shot down the projectile before it entered Israeli territo
  • Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels have repeatedly launched missiles against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians since the war in Gaza began more than a year ago

Syria authorities say armed groups have agreed to disband

Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution and...
  • Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Kurdish-led forces
  • Turkey has "real economic leverage" thanks to a 900-kilometer border with Syria

Netanyahu tells Israel parliament ‘some progress’ on Gaza hostage deal, defence minister admits to killing Haniyeh

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last week, Netanyahu said, however, said he was not going to agree...
  • In recent days, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the US took place in Doha, rekindling hope of an agreement that has proven elusive
  • Negotiations have faced multiple challenges since a one-week truce in November 2023, with the primary point of contention being the establishment of a lasting ceasefire