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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.

Sisi sworn in as Egypt’s President for third successive term

In power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with...
  • In power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote against three relative unknowns
  • For the past two years, his administration has struggled to contain the fallout of a punishing economic crisis that has seen the currency lose two-thirds of its value

Israeli PM vows to ban Al Jazeera broadcasts

Netanyahu was quick to single out Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera, with which his government has a long-running feud that predates...
  • The law, passed on Monday by 70 votes to 10, grants top ministers the power to ban broadcasts by foreign channels deemed a national security threat and to shut their offices
  • The Committee to Protect Journalists said the law contributes to a climate of self-censorship and hostility toward the press, a trend that has escalated since Israel-Gaza war began

Iran calls for ‘international community response’ after Israel’s Syria attack

In a statement, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani "strongly condemned" the attack and said that Iran "reserves the right...
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian described the Israeli attack on an Iranian consulate as a violation of all international obligations and conventions
  • In a night-time rally held in Palestine Square in central Tehran on Monday, hundreds of demonstrators, waving flags of Iran and Palestine, called for "revenge" and chanted slogans

Israeli attack kills several aid workers in Gaza

According to the health ministry in Gaza, the bodies of four foreign aid workers and their Palestinian driver were brought...
  • World Central Kitchen, a US based organization, called the incident a "tragedy"
  • Australian prime minister confirmed one of his country's citizens was among those killed

Hizbollah vows revenge for Israeli missile strike in Syria

Beirut, Lebanon--Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizbollah group warned Tuesday that Israel will pay for killing high-level Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in a strike...
  • The Lebanese resistance group has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Gaza war erupted in October.
  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 people were killed in the strikes, including eight Iranians, two Syrians and one Lebanese, all of them fighters.

Blinken in Paris for talks on Ukraine and Gaza

After Paris, Blinken will head to Brussels for NATO foreign ministers' talks ahead of the alliance's 75th anniversary summit in...
  • Paris has also advocated for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
  • The United States recently let pass a UN Security Council resolution that calls for a truce

Israel, US hold virtual meeting on Rafah offensive plans

The White House said in a statement that the two sides had a "constructive engagement on Rafah" during two hours...
  • The Israeli side agreed to take the concerns into account and to have follow up discussions
  • The statement said that follow-up discussions will include in-person meetings next week

Israeli troops leave behind trail of destruction at Gaza hospital

Palestinian Territories - Israeli forces on Monday pulled out of Gaza's largest hospital complex after an intensive two-week military operation,...
  • The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said that "the scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large".
  • Israel said it had battled Palestinian fighters hiding inside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, killed at least 200 enemy fighters

New shipping service in Saudi Arabia launched

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has announced the addition of the new shipping service 'NRS' by...
  • The NRS shipping service will link Jeddah Islamic Port to Yanbu Commercial Port, Neom Port, Aqaba Port in Jordan, and Sokhna Port in Egypt.
  • This will further establish the Kingdom's position as a global logistics hub that bridges three continents,

Sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrested by Israeli police

Jerusalem, Undefined - Israeli police said Monday they had arrested the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh "as part of a...
  • Police told AFP that Sabah Abdel Salam Haniyeh, who is an Israeli citizen, was taken into custody in the town of Tel Sheva
  • A police spokesman, who confirmed it was Haniyeh's sister, said she is suspected of having contact with Hamas operatives

Workers should have a say in AI implementation, says TUAC general secretary

Davos, Switzerland -- The transformation seen in the labor market brought about by green transition and new technologies has raised...

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Israel strikes Lebanon after Netanyahu vows no mercy for Hezbollah

srael's military launched strikes Tuesday on eastern Lebanon, as Hezbollah fought Israeli soldiers after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed no...

Hezbollah drone strike kills four, wounds dozens at Israeli base, US sending more air-defences

Hezbollah announced late Sunday that it launched a "squadron of attack drones" at the Binyamina camp, 30 kilometers south of...

UN raises alarm over catastrophe amid ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza, Lebanon

With Israel ramping up strikes on Lebanon and Gaza, the UN warns of a potentially catastrophic regional conflict, highlighting the...

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European Mediterranean states to discuss Middle East, migration

Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea are set to meet in Cyprus on Friday October 11 to...
  • Italy, Greece and Spain are the main arrival points in the EU for migrants displaced by war or fleeing poverty
  • The EU has been one of the biggest funders of humanitarian projects in the Palestinian territories

Erdogan says Gaza ‘shame of humanity’, calls for permanent ceasefire

Tirana, Albania - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his attacks on Israel as he arrived in Tirana Thursday, the first...
  • Repeating his claim that Israel's actions in Gaza constituted "genocide", he branded it the "shame of humanity", at a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama
  • According to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, 42,065 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, with the UN saying the figures are reliable

Details: Fresh Israeli attacks kill more Lebanese as Europe flays Netanyahu over strike against UN

Israel attacks Lebanon killing dozens and injuring more than 100 people, while Joe Biden calls Netanyahu a "liar" and Amnesty...
  • “That son of a b*tch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad f**king guy!”: said US President Biden in private, according to a new book
  • Amnesty International accuses Israel of "misleading" and inadequate calls for Lebanese residents to evacuate parts of the country