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
  • Taking to X, formerly Twitter, King Abdullah said that Jordan's air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to...

    Jordan announced the air drop as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken carried out a regional diplomatic tour

    Gaza continued to be rocked by big explosions for the 30th day since Hamas fighters attacked Israel on October 7th

  • AL-KHOBAR, SAUDI ARABIA - The Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce (FEDCOC) is scheduled to host the first Gulf-Egyptian Business...

    The forum will address the most important economic and commercial issues.

    Gulf and Egyptian officials and entrepreneurs are slated to attend the forum.

  • Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu was suspended from government meetings "until further notice" for advocating dropping a nuclear bomb on...

    "But it confirms the truth of the racist view Israelis hold against Palestinians. This is the true face of the occupation government," Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.

    Israel cut internet and phone lines in the Gaza Strip Sunday night, for the third time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, telecoms firm Paltel said.

  • AMMAN, JORDAN  â€“ Foreign ministers from key Arab nations – including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, and...

    The summit with Arab diplomats reinforced their collective call for an end to the aggression against Gaza.

    It emphasized the international community's role in stopping military operations and the bloodshed of civilians.

  • DUBAI, UAE - The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) has launched awareness guidebooks for private sector companies and...

    The awareness guidebook for Emiratis working in the private sector covers 11 topics

    The awareness guidebook for the private sector companies covers nine topics.

  • Blinken arrived in Ramallah under tight security one day after meeting in Jordan with Arab foreign ministers angered by mounting...

    Blinken last week told a Senate hearing the Palestinian Authority should retake control of Gaza, even though it currently exercises only limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank.

    Blinken faced a rising tide of anger in meetings with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, where he reaffirmed US support for "humanitarian pauses".

  • Further south, a 22-year-old Palestinian was "killed by Israeli occupation bullets in Nuba, northwest of Hebron," the ministry said. Meanwhile,...

    Two men, aged 22 and 20, were killed "in an attack by Israeli occupation forces on Abu Dis", a suburb of annexed east Jerusalem

    One of the two was fatally hit by a "bullet in chest" and "six others were wounded, three seriously", according to a statement

  • "No foreign passport holder will be able to leave the Gaza Strip until wounded people who need to be evacuated...

    An Egyptian security source said that "no wounded person or holder of a foreign passport arrived at the Egyptian terminal" of Rafah

    He said the evacuation was suspended "after the bombing of ambulances transporting injured people on their way to the Egyptian terminal"

  • The UNODC warned of potential "humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities" due to the sudden contraction of Afghanistan's opium...

    UNODC report found that poppy cultivation has collapsed by an estimated 95 percent -- from 233,000 hectares at the end of 2022 to 10,800 in 2023

    Last year, poppy crops accounted for almost a third by value of total agricultural production in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer

  • In Jerusalem, hundreds came together outside Netanyahu's residence with more explicit calls for his resignation. The nine months leading up...

    In Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv, several thousand protesters took to the streets on Saturday evening, including relatives and friends of some of the hostages

    International pressure is growing on Israel to agree to humanitarian pauses in the Gaza fighting, but hostages' loved-ones said they should be released as a precondition