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ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.

Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.

Alujain widens 2025 loss

The increase in loss is due to impairment charges, weaker prices.

Masar 2025 net profit $262m

Higher land plot sales boost revenue and operating income.

Tasnee’s 2025 losses deepen

The petrochemicals' company's revenue also fell 17.7 percent.
  • Mourners and colleagues holding 'press' signs surround the body of Al-Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, killed along with his cameraman Rami al-Refee in an Israeli strike during their coverage of Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp, on July 31, 2024. (File photo/AFP)

    Al Jazeera TV raided in West Bank; ordered to close for 45 days

    Global news channel Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West...

    The Israeli military has repeatedly accused journalists from the Qatari-based network of links to Hamas

    Al Jazeera has fiercely denied Israel's accusations and said Israel systematically targets its employees in the Gaza Strip

  • Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike on Beirut

    The killing of Aqil was the second of a senior Hizbollah commander since the start of the war in Gaza,...

    Ibrahim Aqil, who was also wanted by the United States for involvement in the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, headed the Iran-backed group's elite Radwan unit

    AFP journalists at the scene said the blast had left a massive crater and gutted the lower floors of a high-rise building in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs

  • Israel pounds Lebanon as Hezbollah vows revenge for device blasts

    Israel said it struck hundreds of targets in Lebanon, hours after Hezbollah's leader vowed to retaliate for two "unprecedented" rounds...

    The explosion of thousands of Hezbollah pagers and radios killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 over two days

    Lebanon filed a complaint against "Israel's cyber-terrorist aggression that amounts to a war crime

  • Hizbollah chief admits ‘unprecedented’ blow in device blasts

    Israel has not commented on the attacks in which Hizbollah operatives' pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and...

    In his first speech since the attacks, which killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 across two days, Nasrallah struck a defiant tone, vowing that Israel would face retribution

    Describing the attacks as a "massacre" and as a possible "act of war", Nasrallah said Israel would face "tough retribution and a just punishment

  • A man holds an Icom walkie talkie device after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon on September 17 and 18 blamed on Israel. (AFP)

    Lebanon device blasts: what we know about deadly attacks

    Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon in unprecedented attacks this week, killing 37 people and...

    Hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah operatives exploded at almost the same time

    Exploding communication devices has killed 37 people and wounding more than 2,900 over two days

  • Latest batch of device explosions in Lebanon stoking fears of a full-blown war with Israel

    A second deadly wave of unprecedented explosions in the strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah left it in disarray on Thursday, hours...

    The latest batch of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others

    Hezbollah said Israel was "fully responsible for this criminal aggression" and vowed revenge

  • People and first responders gather at the scene of a reported device explosion in Saida in southern Lebanon on September 18, 2024. A second wave of device explosions hit Lebanon after Tuesday's terror attack blamed on Israel. (AFP)

    Lebanon under attack. Fears of all-out war. 20 killed, 450 injured. Israel blamed and flayed.

    A second wave of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 in Lebanon on Wednesday, officials said,...

    Experts said Israeli operatives had likely planted explosives on the paging devices

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged governments "not to weaponize civilian objects"

  • UN rights chief demands accountability for Lebanon pager blasts

    The explosions that killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded up to 2,800 others

    United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights described the blasts as "shocking"

    Turk highlighted that the attack had come at an "extremely volatile time"

  • An ambulance rushes wounded people to the American University of Beirut Medical Center, on September 17, 2024, after explosions hit locations in several areas around Lebanon amid ongoing cross-border tensions between Israel and Hezbollah fighters. Hundreds of people were wounded when Hezbollah members' paging devices exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on September 17, in what a source close to the militant movement said was an "Israeli breach" of its communications. (AFP)

    Israel infiltration in Hezbollah supply chain likely behind pager explosions; 9 dead, 2,800 injured

    Lebanon's health minister said nine people were killed and some 2,800 wounded Tuesday when pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded...

    In neighboring Syria, 14 people were wounded "after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded

    The blasts "killed nine people, including a girl", minister Firass Abiad said in a casualty update

  • Israel PM adds war goal of allowing northern residents to return home

    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday expanded the country's goals for the war in Gaza, vowing to allow Israelis...

    Along Israel's northern border with Lebanon, Hezbollah claimed "dozens" of attacks on Israeli positions on Monday

    On Tuesday, UN member states will debate a draft resolution demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of all Palestinian territories within 12 months