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
  • "The Palestinian economy's dire outlook is worsening as the conflict persists," managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the World Governments Summit...

    In the war-ravaged coastal territory, economic activity dropped 80 percent from October through December compared with a year earlier, the IMF chief said.

    The IMF now sees the economies of the region expanding 2.9 percent this year, a decrease of half a percentage point from its October forecast.

  • Yemen's Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, have launched dozens of attacks against ships in the Red Sea since November, targeting...

    Secretary General Dominguez said IMO is working to ensure that "parties continue to talk so that the situation does not degenerate any further"

    Many shipowners have decided to stop operating in the Red Sea, instead sending their ships on the longer route around the south of Africa

  • Berrechid, Morocco -- Around this time every year, Moroccan wheat farmer Abderrahim Mohafid is usually preparing for his spring harvest, but...

    Morocco has seen only about half the rainfall it did during the same period last year, the country's water minister Nizar Baraka told AFP.

    The sector accounts for 14 percent of Morocco's exports, with exported produce seen as more profitable than that sold in domestic markets.

  • Amir-Abdollahian met top officials in Beirut including Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a powerful ally of...

    The minister said that any move by Israel on Lebanon will spell the "end of Netanyahu"

    He was on his third visit to Beirut in over four months of hostilities

  • While the Israel-Lebanon violence has been largely contained to the border area, a strike earlier on Saturday hit the coastal...

    An Israeli drone strike killed one person and wounded nine others in a southern border village

    Israeli forces and Hezbollah have traded near-daily fire since war broke out on October 7

  • Israel's massive military offensive in Gaza as per the territory's health ministry has killed at least 28,064 people, mostly women...

    Gaza's authorities warned of "tens of thousands" of casualties in Rafah

    EU's Josep Borell said an offensive there "would lead to an unspeakable humanitarian catastrophe"

  • Israel's army and the Shin Bet security agency said operations in Gaza City in recent weeks had led to the...

    Israel Katz rejected UNRWA commissioner general's claim that he was unaware of its presence

    Lazzarini said the agency had not operated from the compound since October 12

  • The United Arab Emirates' defense ministry said that the soldiers were "exposed to a terrorist act" while "performing their work...

    The UAE said it will cooperate with Somalia in investigation of the attack

    Somalia said the attack had targeted a military camp in the capital Mogadishu

  • A total of 17 Houthi fighters were killed in US strikes, the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group said through its official...

    The United States confirmed that its military had conducted a number of strikes against missile launchers as Houthi fighters prepared to launch them.

    The Iran-backed rebels, who control much of war-torn Yemen including the port of Hodeida, have been targeting shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

  • Palestinian Territories - Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family's car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza...

    "I am so scared," Hind had said in a desperate phone call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. "Call someone to come get me, please."

    She was last heard from after becoming trapped in the family's vehicle with other relatives as they tried to flee Gaza City from an Israel advance