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.
  • The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic will "clarify the fate and whereabouts of all missing...

    Resolution calls for the UN chief, and other relevant parties to define the new organization's mandate in the next 80 days

    Thursday's vote came after UN secretary-general Antonio Gutterres called for the formation of such a body in a report in August

  • Taiwan's defense ministry on Friday welcomed the planned sale for "providing the need for enhancing our defense capacity as well...
  • The International Monetary Fund warned in a report that Lebanon's failure to implement reforms could have "irreversible" consequences for the...

    In April 2022, Lebanon and the IMF reached a conditional agreement on a $3-billion-dollar loan needed to save the economy.

    Lebanese officials have still yet to enact the substantial changes required to kickstart the 46-month financing program.

  • ABU DHABI, UAE  - Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the Government, led a high-level UAE delegation...

    The UAE delegation met with the stakeholders in the Israeli cyber ecosystem including investors and top experts.

    The visit provided valuable insights into the latest global trends in cybersecurity and allowed the participants to explore potential collaborations.

  • Arkadag, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan on Thursday inaugurated Arkadag, a $ 5-billion "smart" city built in honor of former strongman leader Gurbanguly...

    The new city is named after Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who ruled over the country between 2006 and 2022 and now carries the title Hero Arkadag (Protector).

    The former president, who turned 66 on Thursday, remains the real decision-maker in the country, observers say.

  • In early June, European Union countries reached agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's asylum rules. It aims to...

    The discussion will come two weeks after a boat believed to have been carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off Greece in one of the worst such tragedies in years

    Amnesty International and other rights groups say the tragedy resulted from Brussels' "Fortress Europe" policy implemented over the past seven years

  • MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Asian Development Bank's financing partners committed US$11.4 billion to confinance projects in 2022 that boosted the resilience...

    The report reveals that ADB and its partners enabled the countries to face current and emerging shocks.

    ABD and its partners financed projects that helped developing members strengthen trade and small businesses.

  • Under a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika stomped on the Quran before setting several pages alight in front of Stockholm's...

    The incident occurred as Muslims around the world began marking the Eid al-Adha holiday and as the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia was drawing to a close.

    Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for a demonstration outside theh embassy in Baghdad to demand the removal of the ambassador.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had "thrown out" a key provision of his controversial judicial reform plan that...

    The proposed changes to the justice system have also drawn intense criticism from the international community.

    The proposals had sparked one the country's biggest protest movements with thousands taking to the streets since they were announced in January.

  • Turkey dropped its objections to Sweden's nordic neighbour Finland joining earlier in the year and Helsinki became a NATO member...

    NATO counterparts have been pushing Turkey to grant the green light to Sweden by the time a summit is held in Lithuania on July 11-12

    Sweden and Finland last year reversed decades of hesitation and formally applied to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine