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.
  • Iran said it has continued indirect negotiations with the Unites States through the Sultanate of Oman over its nuclear deal...

    A 2015 deal granted Tehran much-needed sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

    The two countries recently denied media reports that they were close to reaching an interim deal to replace the 2015 accord.

  • The new bill earmarked 12.7 percent of the budget to the oil-rich autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. It follows...

    The 198.9 trillion dinar ($153 billion) budget -- valid for three years though subject to future amendments -- also sets out record spending on public wages

    Lawmakers approved the bill after days of voting and months of wrangling over its articles in a country long accustomed to budget delays

  • Sharjah, UAE - Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al Shamsi, Director-General of SEWA Sunday discussed the authority's initiatives to reduce emissions and...

    The two discussed the authority's initiatives to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change and its vision for the upcoming COP28 conference.

    They also explored potential collaborations between the authority and American companies in innovation and sustainable development.

  • Kuwait-- Kuwait has urged European states to facilitate the granting of Schengen visas for Kuwaiti citizens. The call was made...

    The call was made by Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah who received at a luncheon several European ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions.

    The Schengen area is a group of European countries that have agreed to allow passport-holders from one country to travel freely within the area without border controls.

  • The EU is ready to offer Tunisia a 900-million-euro package plus 150 million euros in immediate support, European Commission head...

    EU governments, under pressure to reduce migrant arrivals, last week agreed on steps to fast-track migrant returns to their countries of origin or transit countries deemed "safe".

    Tunisia lies less than 150 km from the Italian island of Lampedusa, and has long been a steppingstone for migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries.

  • Iran's supreme leader urged continued cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, while warning against succumbing to "bullying" based on "unfounded...

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said agreements could be reached in certain fields, but "the existing infrastructure of the nuclear industry should not be touched".

    Iran's Atomic Energy Organization "need not succumb to the pressure of unfounded claims and demands based on bullying", Khamenei said.

  • Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a pre-dawn attack in the country's north blamed on the...

    The attack occurred in an area disputed between Iraq's federal government, which holds Kirkuk, and the country's autonomous northern region of Kurdistan.

    IS groups seized swathes of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" which they ruled before their defeat in late 2017.

  • The 37 counts of the indictment -- released on Friday and focused on his alleged mishandling of classified materials --...

    In Columbus, Georgia, Trump railed against Biden and the Department of Justice and what he called a "fake indictment"

    Trump has already responded to the indictment with a string of posts on his Truth Social platform calling Smith "deranged"

  • Recycling, in rebel-controlled Syria, is rather a grim lifeline than environmental impulse for desperate residents searching for work or items...

    In northern Idlib province, workers at a factory making mats and rugs churn out brightly coloured recycled plastic

    The mats made from recycled plastic cost between $5 and $15, while traditional Persian-style rugs are around $100

  • Since the eruption of violence some 200,000 Sudanese nationals have entered Egypt, most of them through land crossings. Egyptian authorities...

    Cairo's foreign ministry issued a statement on Saturday announcing the new regulations, justifying the move as a crackdown on "illegal activities" including fraud

    The authorities introduced visa procedures aimed at regulating "the entry of the brotherly Sudanese (people) into Egypt after more than 50 days of crisis" in their country