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

  • The Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Complex, which will produce 2.1 million tonnes of ethylene a year along with 1.7 million tons...

    QatarEnergy has a 70 percent equity share in the joint venture with Texas-based Chevron Phillips taking the other 30 percent.

    Ras Laffan will double Qatar's ethylene production capacity and increase its polymer output from 2.6 million tons to more than four million tons a year.

  • BASRA, IRAQ - Iraq has apologized to its neighbor Kuwait after a scuffle in the VIP section prevented the Kuwaiti emir's...

    Matches are taking place in the city of Basra as war-scarred Iraq hosts the regional event for the first time in over four decades.

    The country was long banned from international football and is counting on the tournament to burnish its image.

  • Freedom Theatre's ability to provide Jenin residents with respite is under growing strain due to repeated raids by Israeli forces.

    Ahead of the opening night of the theatre's latest production, "Metro Gaza", the creatives woke up to find three Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli operation.

    Jerusalem's El-Hakawati has seen its audiences dwindle since Israel began constructing a barrier around the West Bank in the early 2000s.

  • Tel Aviv, Israel--Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in...

    In Tel Aviv, protesters brandished signs with slogans including "Democracy in danger" and "Together against fascism and apartheid"

    Netanyahu, 73, who himself is fighting corruption charges in court, had already served as premier longer than anyone in Israeli history

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin had unilaterally ordered his forces to pause attacks for 36 hours for the Orthodox Christmas.

    The statement however added that over the past 24 hours Russian forces repelled a number of attacks by the Ukrainian army in eastern Ukraine.

    AFP journalists in the town of Chasiv Yar south of the frontline city of Bakhmut on Saturday heard heavy artillery fire for much of Saturday morning.

  • CAIRO, EGYPT - The UAE Parliamentary Division of the Federal National Council (FNC) on Saturday took part in the 29th...

    The meeting discussed objectives related to health, education and training support in the Union's strategy.

    The delegation also participated in the 8th meeting of the legal team stemmed from the executive committee.

  • PARIS, FRANCE -  Iran on Saturday executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member during unprecedented protests sparked by the...

    The latest hangings double the number of executions to four over the nationwide protests.

    Two men were put to death in December, sparking global outrage and new Western sanctions against Iran.

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE- The UAE has dispatched a second consignment of household generators for the Ukrainian civilians affected by the...

    The UAE announced in December that it's sending 2,500 household generators to civilians affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine that has disrupted energy infrastructure

    The support comes within the $100 million humanitarian relief aid allocated by the UAE to the civilians affected by the crisis in Ukraine

  • More than 100 members of Islamic State group have been arrested by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in an eight-day...

    The Syrian Kurds have been seeking to underline their value as a partner to the West in its campaign against IS

    The SDF said the operation was carried out alongside troops of the US-led coalition, although there was no immediate confirmation from the international force

  • AMMAN, JORDAN -  Jordan's total imports of Iraqi oil between September 2021 to December 2022 amounted to 3.65 million barrels,...

    The Jordanian Minister said that the Kingdom purchases Iraqi crude oil to meet part of its annual oil needs at a rate of 10,000 barrels per day.

    As per the MoU, the Kingdom provides basin tanks for transporting crude oil from the Kirkuk depot in Iraq to the Jordanian oil refinery in Zarqa.