INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.

Mashreq Q1 profit rises

Total revenue increased 10% year-on-year.

TECOM profit climbs

High occupancy across assets boosts earnings.

Emirates Stallions Q1 revenue up 11%

The rise helped by strong demand in real estate

ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.
  • An Israeli strike on a residential area of Damascus killed at least two people, Syrian state media reported, the latest...

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said that "a Syrian civilian" was killed as well as two foreign nationals.

    An AFP photographer said the strike hit a nine-storey building, with damage centered around the fourth floor and the exterior of building partially blackened.

  • Jerusalem - Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence the Gaza war will end with Israel achieving "absolute victory", a majority...

    The Israel Democracy Institute think tank said only 38.3 percent of Israelis polled believed there was a "very high" or "fairly high" likelihood of an "absolute victory" in war.

    Some 55.3 percent of respondents conversely said there was a "fairly low" or "very low likelihood" of such an outcome. Just over six percent of the 612 respondents were undecided.

  • Heavy fighting rocked besieged Gaza as aid agencies warned of looming famine and new talks were held in Cairo towards...

    Combat and chaos again stalled the sporadic aid deliveries for desperate civilians in Gaza.

    The UN World Food Program said it was forced to halt aid deliveries in north Gaza because of "complete chaos and violence".

  • The International Court of Justice is holding a week of hearings after a request from the UN, with an unprecedented...

    "The court should not find that Israel is legally obligated to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from occupied territory," said Richard Visek, US State Department advisor.

    "Any movement towards Israel withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza requires consideration of Israel's very real security needs," he argued

  • The invasion of Ukraine by Russia triggered a massive shift by European nations away from Russian natural gas delivered by...

    IEEFA said that European gas demand has declined by 20% since the start of the Russian invasion

    IEEFA noted that rush to build LNG terminals was continuing despite imports holding steady

  • Tehran, Iran--Iran said Wednesday that Israel was behind twin sabotage attacks against gas pipelines that disrupted supplies in at least...

    The explosions on February 14 hit pipelines in the cities of Safashahr in the southern province of Fars and Borujen in the southwestern province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari.

    The Islamic republic's oil minister Javad Owji told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran that "the explosion of the country's gas lines was the work of Israel"

  • Britain's strategic licensing criteria states that weapons should not be exported when there is a clear risk they could be...

    A coalition of legal advocacy groups had asked the High Court in January to expedite a judicial review of UK government's decision to keep selling arms to Israel

    But the court ruled against the measure, the lawyers said in a statement to AFP on Tuesday, adding that they would appeal the decision

  • The downing of the drone came the same day that the Houthi rebels targeted two US-owned merchant vessels as they...

    A Pentagon official said the drone was shot down by a Houthi surface-to-air missile

    The Houthis that they had targeted "two American ships in the Gulf of Aden"

  • THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS -  A Dutch court quashed an appeal by Russia in a record $50-billion case on Tuesday, paving the...

    The Amsterdam Appeals Court turned down a claim by Moscow that shareholders had "committed fraud" during the arbitration process.

    In 2014 the international Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ruled in favor of shareholders,

  • Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Tuesday at the rapid spread of measles, with more than 306,000...

    At least 95 percent of children need to be fully vaccinated against the disease in a locality to prevent outbreaks, but global vaccination rates have slipped to 83 percent.

    WHO official Crowcroft pointed out that 92 percent of all children who die from measles live among less than a quarter of the global population, mainly in very low-income countries