INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.

Mashreq Q1 profit rises

Total revenue increased 10% year-on-year.

TECOM profit climbs

High occupancy across assets boosts earnings.

Emirates Stallions Q1 revenue up 11%

The rise helped by strong demand in real estate

ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.
  • Abu Dhabi, UAE – UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday received Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Speaker of...

    During the meeting at Qasr Al Shati in Abu Dhabi, the UAE president conveyed his greetings to Iranian president Dr Ebrahim Raisi

    The two sides discussed relations between the two countries and ways to enhance ties, especially at the parliamentary level

  • Moscow, Russia - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's mission was to create a "new world" and blamed Western hegemony...

    Putin has portrayed Russia's full-scale military intervention in Ukraine -- launched in February 2022 -- as part of a long-standing confrontation with the West

    Putin said the conflict in Ukraine was "not a territorial" one and that Moscow has "no interests from the point of view of conquering some territories"

  • WASHINGTON, US - The growth of the economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is expected to fall...

    The region’s gross domestic product is expected to fall to 1.9 percent in 2023 from 6 percent in 2022, due to oil production cuts.

    The decline in growth this year is expected to be more pronounced in the oil exporting countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

  • The changes brought a good deal of criticism, journalist Tom Warren of The Verge website posting on X: "It's the...

    Elon Musk said the change was for "aesthetic" reasons -- news and other links now appear only as pictures with no accompanying text

    When the changes to links were first mooted in August, Musk posted: "This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics."

  • Tulkarem, Palestinian Territories - Israeli forces killed two Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry...

    Israel's military said a gunfight had erupted after soldiers identified a "suspicious vehicle" near the area's Shufa village

    The incident came after reports that an Israeli vehicle was shot at in the area, according to the army statement

  • DOHA, QATAR -  Minister of State and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Free Zones Authority Ahmad bin...

    The Qatari minister and the Advisor to the Iranian President discussed reinforcing cooperation between the two countries.

    The Iranian leader and accompanying delegation toured the Free Zones at Ras Bufontas and Umm Alhoul Free Zone.

  • Turkey has also launched strikes on positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq since Sunday, when two...

    One of the strikes on the Kurdish-controlled region of Hasakeh hit a car, killing two people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

    In another strike, "Turkish drones targeted a factory north of Hasakeh, injuring three workers", said Farhad Shami, the spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF

  • The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up as part of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement to funnel grants and...

    The Green Climate Fund says Thursday's conference in Germany will allow it to invest more in a decade it sees as critical for climate action

    It has laid out a 50by30 vision to manage $50 billion by 2030, almost triple its current capital of $17bn, to focus efforts on developing countries

  • Labour heads into its annual conference in Liverpool, northwest England, this weekend enjoying double-digit leads in opinion polls ahead of...

    When Starmer took charge of the party three years ago after the disastrous reign of socialist Jeremy Corbyn, he vowed to unite it and get it back on a path to power

    The 61-year-old has moved the main opposition back to the centre ground, quietened dissent among the left, and rooted out anti-Semitism within its ranks

  • Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani is scheduled to embark on a two-day visit to Moscow from...

    Prime Minister Al-Sudani is set to leave Iraq on October 9, with a planned meeting between him and President Putin on October 10

    Iraqi state media previously reported that the trip would serve as an opportunity to strengthen ties and foster collaboration between the two nations