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
  • After a Washington Post report revealed that Facebook and Twitter have shut down a number of fake accounts suspected to...

    Pentagon spokesman cautioned against assuming that the Defense Department was behind the accounts, leaving it possible that another government agency was involved

    The Washington Post noted a report last month by Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory on pro-Western covert influence operations

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid met on the sidelines of the United Nations General...

    The Israeli leader also raised concerns about arch-enemy Iran and "thanked President Erdogan for intelligence cooperation," his office said

    In his address to the UN General Assembly, Erdogan renewed calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital

  • New York, USA - UAE, France and India have discussed the need for enhancing global cooperation to counter energy and...

    Foreign ministers of the three countries reviewed it as they met on the sidelines of UNGA's 77th session.

    The three ministers discussed enhancing global cooperation in facing issues like energy and food security.

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a "dignified way out" of the seven-month crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of...

    Erdogan has been using his good working relations with both Moscow and Kyiv to try and find a diplomatic solution to the war.

    Erdogan delivered his address hours after four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine announced plans to vote in the coming days on annexation by Russia.

  • Putin accused the European Union of blocking 300,000 tons of Russian fertilizer from reaching the world's poorest countries. "Our offer......

    In July, an agreement was signed which allowed Russia to export its agricultural products and fertilizer despite Western sanctions.

    The West imposed a litany of sanctions on Russia after it sent troops into Ukraine on February 24.

  • Oil giant Saudi Aramco's chief blasted "unrealistic" energy transition plans, calling for a "new global energy consensus", including ramped-up investments...

    Aramco unveiled record profits of US$48.4 billion in Q2 of 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a post-pandemic surge in demand sent crude prices soaring.

    One of the reasons for energy crisis is declining oil and gas investments, the Aramco chief said.

  • A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank...

    Unrest persisted through the morning, with hundreds of youths hurling rocks at Palestinian Authority armored vehicles.

    Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's forces maintain security ties with Israel, PA raids targeting Hamas members are not common.

  • Musk had initially announced that the Starlink satellite internet service had been made available on every continent "including Antarctica" with...

    Iranian-born science journalist Erfan Kasraie had said on Twitter that bringing the service to Iran could be a "real game changer for the future" of the country

    Launched at the end of 2020, Starlink offers high-speed broadband service to customers in areas poorly served by fixed and mobile terrestrial networks

  • The two discussed ties between OIC and the United States in view of the strategic dialogue meetings which took place...

    The two discussed ties between OIC and the United States in view of the strategic dialogue meetings which took place in Washington last May were reviewed.

    The meeting also exchanged viewpoints regarding the situations of Muslim societies and minorities in non-OIC countries and the phenomenon of Islamphobia.

  • Water scarcity hitting farming and food security are already among the "main drivers of rural-to-urban migration" in Iraq, the UN...

    This summer in Baghdad, the level of the Tigris dropped so low that people played volleyball in the middle of the river, splashing barely waist-deep through its waters

    Years of war have destroyed much of Iraq's water infrastructure, with many cities, factories, farms and even hospitals left to dump their waste straight into the river