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Honda shares soar 16%

The surge came after the auto giant announced a $7bn buyback.

Mubadala acquires stakes from GHH

It acquired an 80 percent stake in Global Medical Supply Chain.

ADNOC Drilling closes JV

It is a JV between ADNOC Drilling, SLB and Patterson UTI.

Boeing to boost 787 production

The firm will invest$1bn to ramp up production in South Carolina.

ADNOC signs deal with PETRONAS

Under the agreement, ADNOC will supply 1m tons of LNG per year.

Palestinian leader Abbas lays ground for succession

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced his replacement . Under current Palestinian law, the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)...
  • Abbas, 89, still rules despite his term as head of the Palestinian Authority ending in 2009
  • The decree comes on the same day that a ceasefire entered into force in Lebanon

Five forgotten conflicts of 2024

he wars in the Mideast and Ukraine-Russia have dominated world headlines in 2024 but several other conflicts are ravaging countries...
  • The conflict in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead and some 26 million facing severe food insecurity
  • THe Democratic Republic of Congo has endured internal and cross-border violence for over 30 years

Biden-brokered truce deal halts Israel-Hezbollah war; Netanyahu plans to go full force against Gaza and Iran

Under US-brokered terms, Lebanon's army regains border control, curbing Hezbollah activity, while Israel vows to maintain security operations if threats...
  • US President Joe Biden announced the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his ministers had agreed to a halt
  • Under the terms of the Lebanon truce, Israel will maintain "full" freedom to act against Hezbollah should the Iran-backed group pose any new threat, Netanyahu said

Israel intensifies attacks before ceasefire deadline as Lebanon seeks “immediate halt”

US president says ceasefire takes effect on Wednesday at 4:00 AM Beirut time, as Lebanese officials accuse Israel of trying...
  • The US and France have spearheaded the truce efforts, and G7 foreign ministers in Italy called on for an "immediate ceasefire"
  • The international community is called upon to act swiftly to stop this [Israeli] aggression and implement an immediate ceasefire, says Lebanese PM

EU urges immediate halt to Israel-Hezbollah war as Israeli attacks kill more in Gaza and Lebanon

Israeli attacks have killed dozens in Gaza and Lebanon is the past 24 hours, while EU chief visits Beirut asking...
  • Dozens feared killed, including women and children, in Gaza and Lebanon in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours
  • European Union chief says the EU is ready to provide 200 million euros ($208 million) to help bolster the Lebanese armed forces

Rocket fire wounds four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said two 122 mm rockets appeared to have hit a bunker on the base. The...
  • "UNIFIL strongly urges combating parties to avoid fighting next to its positions"
  • The peacekeepers were wounded by shards of glass when windows shattered

Putin hints at strikes on West in ‘global’ Ukraine war

In a defiant address to the nation, Russia's president railed at Ukraine's allies granting permission for Kyiv to use Western-supplied...
  • The Kremlin strongman spoke out after a day of frayed nerves, with Russia test-firing a new generation intermediate-range missile at Ukraine
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky branded the strike a major ramping up of the "scale and brutality" of the war by a "crazy neighbour."

Hezbollah says Israel ‘cannot impose conditions’ for truce

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein announced "additional progress" in Lebanon-Israel ceasefire talks, heading to Israel to finalize an agreement amidst escalating...
  • "Israel cannot defeat us and cannot impose its conditions on us," Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in an address broadcast shortly after Hochstein announced his travel plans
  • Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in a near-simultaneous statement, said any ceasefire deal must ensure Israel still has the "freedom to act" against Hezbollah

US envoy presses Israel-Hezbollah truce bid in Lebanon visit

Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp", while Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Nabih Berri, said the...
  • The United States and France have spearheaded efforts for a truce in the conflict
  • Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp"

Iraqis face tough homecoming a decade after IS rampage

Hassan Shami, Iraq - A decade after Islamic State group extremists rampaged through northern Iraq, Moaz Fadhil and his eight children...
  • The jihadists seized a third of Iraq, ruling their self-declared "caliphate" with an iron fist, before an international coalition wrestled control from them in 2017
  • Seven years on, many of the village's homes are still in ruins and lacking essential services, but Fadhil said he felt an "indescribable joy" upon moving back in August

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...

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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....

New Syrian rulers pledge stability, accountability, and reconstruction after Assad’s ouster

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who headed the rebel offensive, had previously announced talks on a transfer of power...

Syria rebel leader vows to pursue former officials for torture, war crimes

Syria's Islamist rebel leader on Tuesday vowed to pursue former senior government officials responsible for torture and war crimes, a...

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Celebrations erupt across Syria to mark end of 50 years of Baath party rule

Bashar al-Assad's whereabouts not clear, but his key backer Russia said he had resigned from the presidency and left Syria....
  • Protests spread like wildfire in neighbouring provinces, with anti-government demonstrators toppling statues of late president Hafez al-Assad in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus
  • The Israeli army said Saturday that its troops were assisting UN peacekeeping forces in the Syrian-controlled part of the Golan Heights in repelling an attack "by armed individuals

Syria: Assad faces stunning setbacks as rebels seize Daraa, Hama, and Aleppo in quick succession

While Aleppo and Hama, the two other main cities taken from government control in recent days, fell to an Islamist-led...
  • Since a rebel alliance led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched its offensive on November 27, the government has lost Aleppo and subsequently Hama in central Syria
  • Syria's civil war, which began with Assad's crackdown on democracy protests, has killed more than 500,000 people and forced more than half the population to flee their homes

Turkey confirms Syria talks with Russia and Iran

A meeting was expected on the forum's sidelines between Turkey, and Damascus allies Iran and Russia.
  • Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan "will meet with the Russian and Iranian ministers"
  • The so-called Astana process involving the three countries was launched by Kazakhstan in 2017