INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Borouge okays $656m dividend

The company said dividend reflects its resilience

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
  • ABU DHABI, UAE – World trade ministers were locked in disagreement Thursday on fisheries subsidies, agriculture and digital customs duties as...

    The meeting opened with disagreements between the body's 164 member states on key issues that dominated the agenda of the talks.

    They include fisheries subsidies, agriculture and a moratorium on customs duties for digital transactions.

  • Iran announced the launch of a remote sensing and imaging satellite into orbit from Russia, according to state media. The...

    Iran’s Telecommunications minister said "Pars-I" was "fully domestically developed" in his country.

    In August 2022, Russia launched Iran's remote-sensing Khayyam satellite into orbit from Kazakhstan.

  • Arbil, Iraq - A Turkish drone strike in northwestern Iraq killed two members of a group affiliated to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan...

    The fighters were members of the Sinjar Resistance Units, a group founded among the district's Yazidi community in response to occupation by the IS group

    There was no immediate word from the Turkish military, which has conducted deadly strikes against PKK targets in Iraq and neighboring Syria previously

  • More than 750 others were injured after Israeli soldiers opened fire on civilians gathered at an aid distribution point in...

    Earlier, the health ministry in Gaza said children have died "due to malnutrition, dehydration and widespread famine" at Al-Shifa hospital.

    The United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA described the food security situation as "extremely critical across Gaza, particularly in northern Gaza."

  • United States has been pressing for a deal before Ramadan begins in which Israel would halt strikes in Gaza and...

    Israel has been assessing how to address worship in Jerusalem during Ramadan

    An Israeli minister said that Palestinians should not be allowed entry to Jerusalem to pray

  • Lebanon's Hizbollah, a Hamas ally, has exchanged near-daily fire with the Israeli army since war erupted between Israel and the...

    On Wednesday morning, Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement it targeted two Israeli military sites with two barrages of "Grad rockets"

    The attack from south Lebanon came in "response to Zionist massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of martyred leaders and their brothers in Beirut

  • The latest overall toll for Palestinians killed in the war came after at least 79 people died overnight across the...

    While mediators say a truce deal between Israel and Hamas could be just days away, aid agencies have sounded the alarm of a looming famine in Gaza's north

    Citing the deteriorating conditions in Gaza, USAID head Samantha Power said Israel needed to open more crossings so that vitally needed humanitarian assistance can be dispatched

  • According to Syria's defense ministry, Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes "from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan", targeting...

    Explosions followed by the sirens of ambulances were heard in the capital

    The Israeli strikes killed two Syrian pro-Hizbollah fighters as per a war monitor

  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates -- A US-led push to reform the World Trade Organization's embattled dispute settlement system sparked divisions...

    Washington's push for reform has angered India, which accused the US on Wednesday of bringing the WTO to a "standstill".

    India threatened to hold off on any new deals before progress is made on the appellate body, which could imperil agreements on fisheries subsidies and agriculture.

  • In January, Israel's cabinet approved an additional 55 billion shekels ($15 billion) to meet the cost of the war, while...

    When asked about Israel's economic losses due to the war, Barkat said it could add "anywhere between 150 to 200 billion shekels ($42-55 billion)" to the country's national debt

    Barkat said Gaza war could help Israel boost sales of military technology, noting there is "high interest" from many countries, without specifying if Arab states were among them