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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.

Harris bats for nuance on Gaza, Palestinians’ right to ‘freedom, self-determination’

Harris also pledged to "always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself." Some pro-Palestinian activists, who rallied on the...
  • The US Democratic candidate vowed to "not cozy up to tyrants and dictators" who can flatter Trump as he "wants to be an autocrat himself."
  • Harris won the biggest applause lines in her foreign policy section when she spoke of the suffering of Palestinians

The Gaza mothers separated from their newborns by war

Jerusalem, Undefined - As their first birthday approaches, the triplets Gaza-native Hanane Bayouk gave birth to in Jerusalem before the war...
  • Israeli travel restrictions and the ongoing conflict have left Palestinian mothers from Gaza struggling to access their children in Jerusalem
  • The number of births at the hospital has fallen sharply as Israel has stopped issuing travel permits to mothers from Gaza and slashed the number given to mothers

India’s Modi urges peace ahead of historic Ukraine visit

"It is India's strong belief that no problem can be resolved on a battlefield," Modi said in Poland, a staunch...
  • Modi is expected to use his landmark visit to campaign for a "peaceful" solution
  • Modi added his country supported "dialogue and diplomacy for restoration of peace and stability"

Israel kills top Palestinian militant as Gaza truce talks stumble

The Israeli military killed a senior Palestinian militant in Lebanon on Wednesday, leading to accusations from the Fatah movement that...
  • The strike killed Khalil Maqdah, described by Fatah as "one of the leaders"
  • Israeli bombardment elsewhere in Gaza killed at least 24 people on Wednesday

Iran probe finds Raisi helicopter crash caused by weather: media

Iran's army in May similarly said it had found no evidence of criminal activity in the crash that also killed...
  • The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi crashed on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others, and triggering snap elections
  • Fars news agency, quoting an informed security source with knowledge of the conclusions of the probe, said overloading was also behind crash

Blinken presses Hamas to back Gaza truce but sees gaps with Israel

Doha, Qatar - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken appealed Tuesday to Hamas urgently to accept a ceasefire plan to ease suffering...
  • The US secretary of state closed his ninth wartime trip to the region in which he warned that the US-backed truce proposal may be the "last chance" to broker an end the conflict
  • The United States last week presented ideas to bridge gaps and, through Qatar and Egypt, has pressed heavily on Hamas to accept and return to talks this week in Cairo

US says Iran responsible for Trump campaign hack

The statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the...
  • Trump's campaign said on August 10 that it had been hacked, blaming "foreign sources" for distributing internal communications and a dossier on running mate J.D. Vance
  • Trump's campaign implied Iran was behind the move as news outlet Politico reported it had received emails with campaign material from a source who refused to identify themselves

Blinken says Israel backs US proposal in ‘last’ chance for Gaza truce

Blinken, on his ninth visit to the Middle East since Hamas's October 7 attack triggered the war with Israel, said...
  • Ahead of those talks, Hamas called on mediators to implement a framework outlined in late May by US President Joe Biden, rather than hold more negotiations
  • The movement on Sunday said the bridging proposal "responds to Netanyahu's conditions" and leaves him "fully responsible for thwarting the efforts of the mediators."

Blinken in Israel as under-pressure Netanyahu blames ‘obstinate’ Hamas

Making his ninth trip to the Middle East since the Gaza war began when Hamas attacked Israel in October, the...
  • Ahead of Blinken's visit, the foreign ministers of Britain and France were on Friday also in Israel to stress the urgency of a Gaza deal
  • Ahead of the truce talks in Doha last Thursday and Friday, Hamas called on mediators to implement the Biden framework rather than holding more negotiations

Putin in Azerbaijan for state visit amid Ukraine offensive on Russian soil

Aliyev and Putin will sign joint documents and make statements to the press, said Russian agency Ria Novosti. On Monday,...
  • His visit to the Caucasus country, a close partner of Moscow, comes against the backdrop of an unprecedented Ukrainian military offensive on Russian soil
  • Putin is due to hold talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on bilateral relations and "international and regional problems," the Kremlin said

Israel says could fulfil Trump’s Gaza displacement plan if hostages not freed, Hamas says truce deal ‘fragile’

Hamas has said it would postpone the release citing Israeli violations, and hours later, Trump warned that "hell" would break...

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Israel approves plan aiming to double annexed Golan population, Saudi calls it ‘sabotage’ of Syria

The occupied Golan is home to about 23,000 Druze Arabs, whose presence predates the occupation and most of whom retain...

US contacts Syria’s HTS, Turkey reopens embassy, as Assad allies Iran and Russia face setbacks

The United States said Saturday it had made contact with Syria's victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, despite previously designating the...

G7 meeting to address Syria’s challenges following Assad’s ouster

Damascus, Syria - G7 leaders will meet virtually Friday to discuss the momentous changes underway in Syria, where the interim government...

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54 journalists killed in 2024, a third by Israel: media group

Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of...
  • Israeli forces were responsible for the deaths of 16 journalists in Gaza and two in Lebanon
  • Israel admits that some have been killed in air strikes on military targets

Transition in Syria: New PM says will ‘guarantee’ rights of all religious groups

With Assad's overthrow plunging Syria into the unknown, its new rulers have sought to assure religious minorities that they will...
  • Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which ended five decades of rule by his clan
  • Syrians across the country and around the world erupted in celebration, after enduring a stifling era during which anyone suspected of dissent could be thrown into jail or killed

South Korean police raid president’s office

#South #Korean police raided President #Yoon Suk #Yeol's office as part of the investigation into his declaration of #martial law....
  • The deeply unpopular Yoon is already under a travel ban
  • Yoon survived an impeachment motion in parliament on Saturday