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Eni profit falls due to dip in oil prices

Q2 net profit fell by 18% to $637 million.

Emirates NBD H1 profit $3.40bn

Total income rose by 12 percent in the same period.

ADIB H1 pre-tax profit $1.08bn

Q2 pre-tax net profit increases by 14 percent.

AstraZeneca to invest $50bn in US

Bulk of funds to go into a Virginia manufacturing center.

UAB net profit up by 50% for H1

Total assets increase by 11 percent.
  • Israeli strike kills Hamas member and two others in Lebanon

    Beirut, Lebanon--Palestinian resistance group Hamas said one of its members was killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Wednesday...

    The Palestinian resistance group said the man killed in the strike was Hadi Mustafa, a member of its armed wing in Lebanon

    Lebanon's official National News Agency said three people were killed in the strike, including a Syrian passing by on a motorcycle

  • Gaza aid port plans ‘sign of international weakness’: Amnesty

    Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty, said nobody was holding Israel to account over the delays to deliveries by land...

    Gaza is suffering a severe humanitarian crisis as Israel's war on the strip drags on

    Israel's war on the enclave has killed at least 31,272 people in the besieged enclave

  • Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank hospital

    Asked about the reported deaths, the Israeli military said soldiers "fired toward armed suspects identified in the area" and that...

    The killings before dawn took place on the compound of the government hospital in Jenin, in the north of the West Bank, the hospital's director, Wissam Bakr, told AFP

    The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry says at least 430 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops and settlers since Oct 7.

  • Germany joins operation to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza

    "The people in Gaza are lacking the most basic necessities. We want to do our part to ensure that they...

    The defense ministry said it would deploy the German part of a joint German-French air transport squadron to participate in the mission

    The operation, initiated by Jordan, already has the participation of several other countries including France and the United States

  • Scores wounded as UN aid agency’s warehouse ‘hit’ in Gaza

    The incident comes amid mounting concern about worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where Israel has carried out relentless military operations...

    Cumbersome Israeli security checks on all cargoes entering the territory slow down the delivery of aid, and some trucks are sent back when they are found to contain forbidden items

    Gaza health ministry said four people were killed in the bombing. As of March 4, a total of 162 UNRWA employees had been killed since the beginning of the war.

  • Pilot project for direct aid delivery to north Gaza begins: Israeli army

    Aid groups have been warning of the risk of famine in besieged Gaza for weeks, and the UN has reported...

    According to the army, six World Food Program aid trucks "entered the northern Gaza Strip via the '96th' gate on the security fence" on Tuesday

    Without specifically mentioning the new overland route, the WFP wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that it had "delivered enough food for 25,000 people to Gaza City"

  • Suspected gas explosion rocks town in northern China

    Footage online circulated by state media showed a huge explosion that sent plumes of smoke and fire across a busy...

    The blast took place around 7:55 am, CCTV said, in a residential area in the village of Xiaozhanggezhuang, Yanjiao, in Sanhe City

    The injured have been taken to the hospital, and the current situation of casualties is unknown," local media said

  • 230,000 children, new mothers risk dying of hunger in Sudan: NGO

    The bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into "one of the worst" nutrition situations in the...

    Nearly 11 months of fighting between the forces of two rival generals has killed thousands and displaced eight million people in the country.

    The UN World Food Program sounded the alarm on Sudan this month, warning the war risked triggering the world's largest hunger crisis.

  • Israel claims to have hit 4,500 Hizbollah targets in five months

    Jerusalem--The Israeli army said Tuesday it hit about 4,500 Hizbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria over the past five months,...

    The Israeli army said the targets were hit from the air and from the ground and included "weapons storage facilities, military structures"

    The statement came after a Lebanese security source said Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon killed one person earlier on Tuesday

  • GCC sets pace for global decarbonization efforts

    The region is in decarbonizing the built environment, with a focus on sustainable urban planning, energy-efficient buildings, and renewable energy...

    The region is in decarbonizing the built environment, with a focus on sustainable urban planning, energy-efficient buildings, and renewable energy integration.

    Adopting smart city concepts and green building certifications improves life quality, with future trends focusing on energy monitoring and green finance.