INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

UAB H1 profit climbs

Income, lending drive first-half growth

Sanad posts record revenue

Growth driven by global demand for services.

Bank of Sharjah profit up 39%

Bank's total assets grow 10% to $14.4 billion.

DIB H1 net profit $1bn

Gross revenue increased 10% year on year

SIB H1 profit up 15.3%

Total operating income rises 20.5 percent.
  • The meeting was decided on by Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune, Libya's head of presidential council Mohamed Al-Menfi and Tunisian President...

    The coalition is aimed at furthering "security, stability and development throughout the region", Tunisian foreign minister Nabil Ammar said

    No leaders from Morocco or Mauritania were present at the meeting, set to take place every three months

  • Rockets were fired late Sunday from northern Iraq at a military base in Syria housing a US-led coalition, according to...

    It is the first major attack against the coalition forces in several weeks

    The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has said it is acting in solidarity with Palestinians and out of anger at US support for Israel

  • The United States was among the first to cut ties with Assad over the repression of anti-government protests that sparked...

    The United States was among the first to cut ties with Assad over the repression of anti-government protests that sparked war in 2011

    Last year Syria returned to the Arab fold, seeking better ties with wealthy US-allied Gulf states, in the hope they can help fund reconstruction

  • Iran downplayed Israel's reported retaliation for its unprecedented drone and missile attack, tamping down fears that escalating attacks between the...

    Aiming to bolster Israel's defences including its Iron Dome air defence system, the US House of Representatives approved $13 billion in new military assistance for the country

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the aid bill, writing on X, that it "demonstrates strong bipartisan support for Israel and defends Western civilization."

  • An unidentified Israeli official told The Washington Post the "strike" was retaliation for Iran's drone and missile barrage and was...

    Israeli officials made no public comment on the attack and Iranian officials played down its significance

    Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Israeli micro-drones used in the operation had caused no deaths or damage

  • iran, israel, missile, syria

    Israeli strikes on Friday targeted a Syrian army position in the country's south, a war monitor said, as US media...

    Israeli strikes on Friday targeted a Syrian army position in the country's south,

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: The Middle East is on a precipice

  • Hours after the strike on Arab al-Aramshe, an Arab-majority village in northern Israel near the border, Israeli forces hit targets...

    Israel and Hizbollah, an Iran-backed Hamas ally, have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Palestinian group attacked southern Israel on October 7

    But Hizbollah strikes in the past few days have included a growing use of explosive drones and wounded people in Israel, which has struck deeper into Lebanon in recent weeks

  • Meloni's latest visit to Tunisia came as part of her so-called Mattei Plan, a program aiming to posit Italy as...

    Meloni met with Saied, who vowed in a national security meeting the day before that Tunisia "will be neither a center nor a crossing point" for sub-Saharan migrants

    "Cooperation on migration remains a central aspect of the relationship between Italy and Tunisia," Italian officials said

  • Gaza, UN, security council, israel

    Against the backdrop of the grinding conflict in Gaza, a city largely devastated by more than six months of war...

    The Palestinians formally revived this April an application first made to the world body in 2011

    Statehood requires a defined territory, a permanent population, a government and the ability to enter into international relations

  • iran. missile, Israel, sanctions

    The United States announced Tuesday that it was preparing new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program after last weekend’s...

    Washington would impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program

    EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Brussels is working on expanding sanctions against Iran's supplies of weaponry