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Eni profit falls due to dip in oil prices

Q2 net profit fell by 18% to $637 million.

Emirates NBD H1 profit $3.40bn

Total income rose by 12 percent in the same period.

ADIB H1 pre-tax profit $1.08bn

Q2 pre-tax net profit increases by 14 percent.

AstraZeneca to invest $50bn in US

Bulk of funds to go into a Virginia manufacturing center.

UAB net profit up by 50% for H1

Total assets increase by 11 percent.
  • Yemen rebels say targeted Israel army site, US warships in Red sea: statement

    Yemen's Huthis said they targeted a military site in Israel and attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea Monday,...

    The Iran-backed group carried out a military operation targeting an Israeli military target in the occupied area of Yaffa (Tel Aviv)

    The Huthis also claimed to have targeted "two US destroyers with several cruise missiles and drones" in the Red Sea

  • Netanyahu meets Trump for tariff and Gaza talks

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to...

    Netanyahu and Trump are also set to discuss Gaza, where a short-lived US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas has collapsed, and growing tensions with Iran

    Trump greeted Netanyahu outside the West Wing and pumped his fist, before the two leaders went inside for a meeting in the Oval Office.

  • PA alone must be in charge of post-war Gaza, say France, Egypt and Jordan

    Cairo, Egypt -- The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan on Monday said the Palestinian Authority alone must be in...

    French President Emmanuel Macron earlier said that Palestinian group Hamas should have no role in governing the Gaza Strip once its war with Israel is over.

    King Abdullah stressed the need for "a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution", a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

  • Turkey’s main opposition leader urges elections ‘in November at the latest’

    The leader of Turkey's main opposition party on Sunday called for expected elections to be held "at the latest in...

    Addressing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, CHP party leader Ozgur Ozel said: "In November at the latest, you will come to confront our candidate,"

    Ozel hailed the demonstrations triggered by last month's arrest of Imamoglu, Istanbul's popular opposition mayor who is widely considered Erdogan's greatest political threat

  • Zelensky slams US lack of response to Putin truce rejection

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday lamented the lack of a US response to Russia's refusal to sign "a full,...

    Russia mounted a "massive" missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight that also wounded seven people, Zelensky said

    Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional truce in the more than three-year-long war proposed by the United States

  • Thousands rally in Morocco at pro-Palestinian protest

    Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Morocco's capital on Sunday against the conflict in the Gaza Strip where Israel...

    The largest pro-Palestinian protest in the capital Rabat for several months was called by the Islamist-dominated coalition the Justice and Development party

    Protesters were accompanied by chanting and the beating of drums as they marched down the city's Mohammed V Avenue near parliament

  • Tens of thousands march in US against Trump ‘devastation’

    Opponents of the Republican president's policies -- from government staffing cuts to trade tariffs and eroding civil liberties -- rallied...

    As Trump continues upending Washington, his approval rating has fallen to its lowest since taking office, according to recent polling.

    In Washington, thousands of demonstrators -- many traveling from across the United States -- gathered on the National Mall where dozens of speakers rallied opposition to Trump.

  • Macron to hold summit with Egyptian, Jordanian leaders as Israel pushes to seize Gaza territory

    Meanwhile, a video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final...

    Israel has pushed to seize territory in Gaza since the collapse of a short-lived truce, in what it has called a strategy to force the militants to free hostages.

    The French president is expected in Cairo on Sunday evening, where he will hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart on Monday morning.

  • Syrian government says studying Amnesty report on massacres

    Syria's government said late Friday it was "closely following" the findings of a new Amnesty International report urging an investigation...

    Amnesty called on the Syrian government in a report on Thursday to ensure accountability for the massacres targeting the Alawite minority

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor has said security forces and allied groups killed more than 1,700 civilians, mostly Alawites, during the violence

  • Israel expands ground offensive in Gaza city, dozens killed as fighting engulfs Shujaiya neighborhood

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army was dividing Gaza and "seizing territory" to force Hamas to free the remaining...

    Israel has pushed to seize territory in the Gaza Strip in what it said was a strategy to force militants to free hostages still in captivity

    In Lebanon, Hamas's military wing said its commander Hassan Farhat was killed in an Israeli strike that hit "inside his apartment" in Sidon