INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

DEWA posts record H1 profit

Revenue reaches record $4.04 billion.

Tabreed H1 revenue $308m

Blurb: Profit reaches $52 million in H1

ADNOC L&S to expand fleet

It will acquire 11 carriers for $1.3bn.

Empower profit climbs 16%

Dubai district cooling demand lifts earnings

Burjeel profit nearly doubles

Healthcare demand drives stronger earnings.
  • A lawyer representing a Turkish university student detained in the United States and facing deportation said Thursday that his client...

    Earlier this week, a video surfaced on social media showing 30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by masked, plain-clothed figures near Tufts University in Massachusetts

    The video quickly went viral as a symbol driving the fear and anger gripping US campuses as President Donald Trump clamps down on students accused of holding extremist views

  • Negotiations between Hamas and Israel, mediated by Egypt along with Qatar and the United States, have been deadlocked for weeks...

    Talks are focusing on the possibility of implementing a truce during the Eid al-Fitr and Jewish Passover holidays

    A Palestinian source close to Hamas said that despite the discussions, "no breakthrough" had been achieved so far

  • The belief that human-or-better intelligence -- often called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) -- will emerge from current machine-learning techniques fuels...

    "Systems that start to point to AGI are coming into view," OpenAI chief Sam Altman wrote in a blog post last month.

    Such predictions help justify the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into computing hardware and the energy supplies to run it.

  • Paris, France -- From champagne to steel and now cars: it is getting harder to keep up with US President...

    In early March, Trump imposed a 20 percent tariff on products from China, which has a huge trade surplus with the United States and was already his top target during his first term

    Trump announced earlier he would slap 25-percent tariffs on imports from countries buying oil and gas from Venezuela, a punitive measure that could hit China and India.

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Wednesday to seize parts of Gaza if Hamas did not release hostages, while the militant...

    Israel's resumption of intense bombardment and ground operations across Gaza shattered weeks of relative calm brought by a fragile ceasefire

    According to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, 830 people have been killed in the territory since Israel restarted its strikes on March 18

  • The meeting is seeking to set out what security guarantees Europe can offer Ukraine once a ceasefire deal is agreed,...

    Speaking alongside Zelensky in Paris on Wednesday ahead of the talks, Macron said this was now a "decisive phase to put an end to the war of aggression"

    Macron also announced a new French two billion euro ($2.2 billion) military aid package for Ukraine, with Paris ready to rapidly ship existing hardware from its stocks

  • Washington, United States -- By 2030, Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tons) of...

    Coca-Cola ranks as the world's top branded plastic polluter, followed by PepsiCo, Nestle, Danone, and Altria, according to a 2024 study published in Science Advances.

    Oceana's estimate is based on Coca-Cola's publicly reported packaging data from 2018 to 2023, combined with sales growth forecasts to create a "business-as-usual" scenario.

  • Oslo, Norway -- The prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics was on Wednesday awarded to Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara a specialist...

    The 78-year-old mathematician was honored for "his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory.

    D-modules provided a "new basis for studying systems of linear differential equations", according to the jury.

  • The protests erupted on March 19 after the arrest of Istanbul opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a graft...

    Those detained include AFP journalist Yasin Akgul, who the Paris-based agency says was doing his job covering the protests.

    President Recep Erdogan, who has repeatedly denounced the protests as "street terror", stepped up his attacks on the opposition.

  • With President Donald Trump pushing for a rapid end to the war that has killed tens of thousands of people,...

    The United States said it would also look for ways to enforce a ban on strikes on energy infrastructure in the two countries

    Zelensky told a news conference in Kyiv that the talks also discussed bringing in third parties to oversee a future truce