INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

EasyLease H1 profit $12.2m

Revenue rises on stronger operations.

FAB profit edges higher

Income growth supports steady earnings.

UAB H1 profit climbs

Income, lending drive first-half growth

Sanad posts record revenue

Growth driven by global demand for services.

Bank of Sharjah profit up 39%

Bank's total assets grow 10% to $14.4 billion.
  • The health ministry of the besieged enclave said between 200 and 300 people displaced by 10 days of heavy bombardment...

    Separately, the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said six people were killed when one of its schools sheltering displaced families was hit during Israeli strikes.

    Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas declares three days of mourning after the "hospital massacre" in Gaza.

  • Paris, France - Several technology industry leaders have decided to boycott one of the sector's biggest annual events after the organizer...

    "War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are," Cosgrave wrote on October 13

    Cosgrave also said that Israel should adhere to the Geneva Conventions, "ie, not commit war crimes"

  • Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and left over 1,400 people dead and triggered Israeli retaliatory strikes on Gaza where...

    Palestinian group Hamas said that one of the top leaders of its armed wing was killed during an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip.

    Confirming his killing, the Israeli military described Ayman Nofal as "one of the most dominant figures" in Hamas.

  • Nicosia, Cyprus - A first group of evacuees from Israel arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday aboard a US-chartered cruise ship as...

    The 159 evacuees on board the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Sea primarily consisted of elderly individuals, families with children and tourists.

    Cyprus is being used as a safe transfer hub for foreign nationals evacuated from Israel after Hamas' shock October 7 attack, which killed more than 1,400 in Israel.

  • Shanghai, China - China will this week weigh into the Israel-Hamas war by sending its special envoy to the Middle East,...

    Washington says it hopes China's friendship with Hamas backer Iran could help calm the conflict, particularly after Beijing brokered a detente between Tehran and Riyadh.

    Beijing has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinians, though it has supported the nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization rather than Hamas.

  • Amira, 44, and her children have moved to the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in the southern district of Khan...

    "Death might be more merciful," she added. About one million people from northern Gaza have moved to Khan Yunis and other districts to avoid the looming Israeli ground offensive.

    UNICEF, the UN children's agency, has said that unless water and fuel are sent "immediately", Gaza inhabitants are in "imminent danger" of epidemics and death.

  • RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The Kingdom’s Minister of Transport and Logistic Services Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser here launched a significant...

    The project will have a capacity to accommodate six million passengers annually.

    It will operate through three international alliances in three concession areas.

  • Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned in a live broadcast to state TV of the possibility of pre-emptive action by...

    The minister said the "resistance leaders" will not allow Israel "to do whatever it wants in Gaza"

    The Islamic republic celebrated the Hamas assault but was at pains to stress that it was not involved

  • Biden will visit Tel Aviv, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in Washington. He also announced that Biden would...

    Biden "will hear from Israel what it needs to defend his people as we continue to work with Congress to meet those needs," Blinken said

    US officials said that a new US coordinator on humanitarian aid, David Satterfield, would work with Israel to develop more concrete plans

  • Since its invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Russia has been accused of taking thousands of Ukranian chlidren to...

    The children are going back to Ukraine via Qatar, Estonia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania

    Ukraine has welcomed the return of the four children, describing it an "important day"