INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Borouge okays $656m dividend

The company said dividend reflects its resilience

DEWA posts record H1 profit

Revenue reaches record $4.04 billion.

Tabreed H1 revenue $308m

Blurb: Profit reaches $52 million in H1

ADNOC L&S to expand fleet

It will acquire 11 carriers for $1.3bn.

Empower profit climbs 16%

Dubai district cooling demand lifts earnings
  • Nearly a decade of war in Yemen has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, both directly and indirectly, and triggered...

    The rapprochement between the two great regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, has fueled hopes of reduced tensions in the Middle East.

    The United Nations special envoy on Yemen, Hans Grundberg, was in the Omani capital this week for talks on "the political process".

  • They were among 37 people aboard the vessel which had left from Tunisia's coast and then "sank on Friday afternoon",...

    It was at least the sixth sinking since the beginning of March in incidents which have left around 100 people dead or missing.

    The latest case adds to the more than 14,000 migrants which Tunisia's coastguard said it has intercepted on their way to Europe between January and March.

  • TEHRAN, IRAN - Dozens of schoolgirls were poisoned Saturday in several schools across Iran, local media reported, in continuation of the...

    School going girls have been regularly targeted by poisoning since late November 2022 in Iran.

    Iran reported that till March 7, over 5000 students across 25 provinces in the country have been poisoned.

  • BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi President Abdel Latif Rashid condemned Turkey on Saturday for bombarding an area near Sulaimaniyah airport in the...

    Iraqi president said Turkey continued to target Kurdistan region as it struck against Sulaimaniyah airport.

    President Abdel Latif Rashid said Turkey has "no legal justification" for attacking the Kurdish region.

  • Amman, Jordan -- Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular...

    "Tens of thousands of Jordanians graduated from Iraqi universities in various fields during Saddam's era with free scholarships," MP Khalil Attiyeh told AFP.

    "The main reason Jordanians love Saddam is that they saw him as a hero and a savior who had a mission to boost the Arab nation at all levels," Attiyeh told AFP.

  • In response to US and South Kroea military drills, North Korea has tested another underwater nuclear attack drone, though military...

    Blaming US-South Korea exercises for a worsening regional security situation, it claimed to have conducted the first test of the Haeil

    According to Seoul, the US and South Korea staged joint air drills involving at least one US nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber

  • Evan Gershkovich was formally charged with espionage by Russia, according to Russian news agencies, accusation rejected both by the reporter...

    According to state-run agency TASS, sleuths from the FSB charged Gershkovich with espionage "in the interests of his country"

    The State Department summoned the Russian ambassador and Antony Blinken raised the matter in a telephone call to Russian foreign minister

  • In a PLA statement, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theatre Command, said "United Sharp Sword" would involve...

    The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command said "United Sharp Sword" would run April 8 to 10 for "combat preparedness."

    The move follows a meeting in California between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

  • Following the killing of three people in the West Bank and Tel Aviv, Israel has mobilized police and army reserves...

    In the occupied West Bank on Friday, two British-Israeli sisters were killed and their mother seriously wounded in a shooting attack

    In Tel Aviv, one man was killed and seven people wounded when a car rammed into people sauntering along a cycling path along the seafront

  • Sleeping troubles, fear of spending time indoors and profound fear of the mountains are some of the symptoms survivors in...

    Volunteer psychiatrist Eralp Turk tries to heal the anguish by zipping around the disaster zone with a box full of pills in his car and a notepad for recording emotions.

    Social worker Aysen Yilmaz said the people she consults in Turkey's tent cities were showing all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress.